Workshop Wednesday: How Might We Organize Ourselves Best To…?

‘ Each Wednesday we post a photograph that illustrates some of our work. This one shows our combination of two principles: phrasing questions with ‘How Might We…’ stimulates divergent thinking, and inviting groups to self-organize increases the engagement of people in them (which increases performance). In this case, the leader made an explicit grant of authority to the group to determine it’s optimal structure as […]

Workshop Wednesday: TRIZ Meets ‘How Might We…?’

Each Wednesday we post a photograph that illustrates some of our work. This one shows our combination of TRIZ and Min Basadur’s “How Might We…” method to spark divergent thinking about the causes of failure resulting in some very wild lists of ways to do so. This first step is followed by a second in which participants pick from the list the activities they’re already doing. Step […]