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DESIGNING AN EMBEDDING WORKSHOP

COURSE NAME

Strategies for Open Innovation

COURSE DATE

August 2019 - October 2019

TEAM CREDITS

Diane Wee

Shiya Xiao

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course teaches design tactics and strategies for effectively distributing and brokering knowledge across cross-disciplinary organizations. The goal of this class is for students to be able to:

  • Strategically plan when and how to deploy design capabilities in large-scale co-creation projects

  • Facilitate complex knowledge brokering and ideation activities

  • Know how to respond and adjust to new developments in open-ended processes of discovery and innovation

  • Improve productivity in multi-disciplinary team dynamics

  • Effectively manage ideation flows when knowledge is distribute across large networks of individuals and organizations

LEADERSHIP

INNOVATION STRATEGY

INNOVATION STRATEGY

WORKSHOP FACILITATION

  GRADUATE SCHOOL PROJECT  

ASSIGNMENT  OVERVIEW

Students were broken into groups of three to design and lead a 30 minute workshop around the future of manufacturing. Each workshop was one of the 7 "ideation lenses" of knowledge brokering. My team's lens was "Embedding." 

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WORKSHOP ANALYSIS

After designing and conducting 30 minute workshop with my team, I built the below document to evaluate the design of the workshop and how successfully the activities facilitated the desired outcome of embedding complexity to effectively design prototype-able interventions.

WORKSHOP REDESIGN

Taking into consideration the learnings from the evaluation, I redesigned the workshop to address the identified issues and drive more meaningful outcomes. I particularly focused on redesigning the end of the workshop by introducing a critique activity to better "unpack" the embedded concepts.

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