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How to promote positive change in teams and organizations with Appreciative Inquiry
I am a big fan of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as an approach to introduce change in organizations, teams, communities and workshops and also for personal and leadership development. I like it because it proposes a shift from problem solving to identifying and building on existing strengths. The basic tenet of AI is that a team or…
Read More10 Golden Rules of Design Thinking: Promoting collaboration and innovation in your teams
I have “talked” about Design Thinking in this blog many times as a great tool to promote innovation both at company, project and team level. There are toolkits to adapt it to social innovation projects and for educators and for social entrepreneurs. I have used it in different settings, both with students at university and in…
Read More30 Things You Can Do To Promote Creativity in Your Classroom
Today, I want to share with you an amazing article by Miriam Clifford, that proposes 30 things you can do to promote creativity in trainings, workshops and in class. I have tried some of them in our LABs for Change and the impact is amazing! “The concept of teaching creativity has been around for quite some…
Read MoreThe power of citizens (Citizen 2.0): 17 examples of government social media innovation
The internet has changed the way information is relayed and how people use it. We have gone from an era of broadcast dominated by passive reception to an era of digital natives, where communication is interactive and instantaneous. This new generation has grown up with the Internet and expects continuous participation. This evolution towards new communication…
Read MoreInnovation Centers in Africa
I am very interested in Innovation Centres and LABs and have been exploring and also visiting some in different countries. Lately, my focus has been in Africa. A lot has been written about the boom of innovation centres in Africa, but recently mHealth Africa published a great infographic that shows all those hubs on the continent. …
Read MoreList of Open Innovation resources, tools, books and more
Open innovation models have become an integral part of the innovation strategies and business models of companies in recent years. Innovation is increasingly based on knowledge assets beyond the boundaries of the company and co-operation has become an important way of tapping into knowledge resources outside in order to generate new ideas and bring them…
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