Innovating across roles and departments is often marred with miscommunication, disconnection, and frustration, resulting in teams not knowing who’s doing what, and, ultimately, abandonment. What if you could turn this essential innovation collaboration from a pain to a strength? This is a collaborative workshop where you will learn by doing.
So, you’ve got a problem worth solving or an insightful solution, but your efforts are plagued with constant starts and stops, completely stall out, or you’re even shut down before you begin. Innovating across roles and departments is often marred with miscommunication, disconnection, and frustration, resulting in “moving targets”, project teams not knowing who’s doing what, and, ultimately, abandonment.
What if you could turn this essential innovation collaboration from a pain to a strength? This workshop is a collaborative session where you will learn by doing. We invite you to bring an issue or idea to work on.
This interactive session aims to not only introduce or reinforce the concepts of design thinking and human-centered design through a lens of cross-role, cross-departmental, and even cross-organizational collaboration, but gives participants a chance to try out and play with the techniques. The topics covered and participatory activities include: advice interviews, problem statement creation, ideation with diverse perspectives, and solution statement creation.
Revised & Updated
This workshop is based on an original 3-hour interactive workshop presented by us at MinneWebCon in May 2017 (in our hometown of Minneapolis, MN; http://minnewebcon.org/sessions/silo-busting-innovation) in which we walk through concepts and activities related to the use of innovation practices to bring disparate working teams together and work more productively and seamlessly. We plan to revise, update, pare down, and focus the content to be most salient and applicable for those in the higher education industry—our kind of people.
Facilitation
This workshop will be very hands-on and experiential giving attendees the opportunity and support to step through a series of activities that they can bring back with them and apply right away. It is also meant to teach some of the basics of innovation and attendees will leave with a deep(er) knowledge of why innovation practices are valuable, confidence in themselves in actually applying them, and a shift in their mindset with a bias towards empathy and action.