A Creative Approach To Organizational Development
What is your business strategy to solve difficult problems, especially in organizational development? Finding solutions is never easy (after all, we are talking about people) and may seem dauntingly difficult: hence the value of the business wisdom in this recent post from the Friesen Group on creative confidence. Here are several of their key points:
- There is no universal approach to solving problems.
- Allow the solution process to "emerge, evolve, and engage the group"
- "Be willing to step out into uncertainty, ambiguity, and fog and enter into the organization's journey."
The Friesen Group points out that this is a process of "welcoming the unknown with the known" to which they have given the name "creative confidence."
Since there is no universal approach, we can also benefit from a toolbox of approaches called Bootcamp Bootleg from the Institute of Design at Stanford. Bootcamp Bootleg includes 7 Mindsets (e.g. collaborate across boundaries), 5 Modes (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test) and 27 Methods (e.g. structure-saturate-group and impose contstraints).
Why use an approach to solving organizational challenges based upon design process? The simple answer is that the common denominator of any solution-based process is knowing how the mind works and using approaches that can engage all the different personalities in an organization.
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