This document outlines various models and steps for innovating through the virtual integration of diversity. It discusses 4 steps from the business school model at Rotman, including salience, causality, architecture, and resolution. It also outlines 5 ways from the design school model, including mood, context, requirements, design solutions, and design evaluation. Finally, it proposes strategies for language and culture integration, including brainstorming, defining problems, role-playing, and applying alternative strategies. The overall aim is to foster innovation through the virtual integration of diverse perspectives.

1. Virtual integration of diversity: Real transdisciplinarity 1 KA Watson, Coastline CC

2. Innovation through diversity integration Background: what it means to innovate & integrate Theoretical and philosophical (e.g., the “Other”) Practical (e.g., “diversity” dealings) Functional In business In design In language and culture courses 2 KA Watson, Coastline CC

3. Virtually innovativediversity integration: 4 steps The business school model, Rotman-style Salience Causality Architecture Resolution 3 KA Watson, Coastline CC

4. Virtual diversity integration Step #1: Rotman-style “salience” Mental triage, deciding what is/is not relevant Consideration of multiple variables Weighing of numerous options Consideration of consequences KA Watson, Coastline CC 4

5. Innovation, integration, and diversity Step #2: Rotman-style “causality” Seek and exploration Seek the non-linear Seek the multi-directional Seek interrelationships Seek the “prime cause” KA Watson, Coastline CC 5

6. Integrated innovation in a diverse world Step #3: Rotman-style “architecture” Model-building Module-building Care to avoid “narrow perfectionism” Backgrounding/foregrounding in turns KA Watson, Coastline CC 6

7. Integration of diversity for innovation Step #4: Rotman-style “resolution” Using challenges as forms of physical tension Using physical tension as impetus to creativity Using problems as aspects of a “messy whole” Moving always toward the optimal KA Watson, Coastline CC 7

8. Innovation via integration: 5 ways The design school five-way model Mood Context Requirements Design solutions Design evaluation 8 KA Watson, Coastline CC

9. Innovation through integrated diversity, oui! Cottong/Burney-style “mood”: a first way to integrate “Atmosphere” Transformative thought Creative process-building for innovation Cultural sensitivity KA Watson, Coastline CC 9

10. Innovative integration through diversity Cottong/Burney-style “context”: Way #2 Human: who will use… Practical: what used for…. Significance triage KA Watson, Coastline CC 10

11. Virtual diversityintegration Cottong/Burney-style “requirements”: Way #3 Business needs User goals Responsiveness to business, economics, and humans KA Watson, Coastline CC 11

12. Innovative integration: Diversity, oui! Cottong/Burney-style “design solutions”: Way #4 First, propose many rough concepts Second, discuss the concepts Third, entertain alternative perspectives of concepts Fourth, foster a feeling of concept “ownership” KA Watson, Coastline CC 12

13. Virtual integration of diversity Cottong/Burney-style “design evaluation”: Way #5 Test alternatives among real users Use “beta-testing” practices Use “quality testing” Evaluate and re-evaluate continuously KA Watson, Coastline CC 13

14. Virtual diversity integration: 4 strategies Language and culture integrated, Coastline-style Brainstorming Defining a problem Role-playing Applying alternative strategies 14 KA Watson, Coastline CC

15. Virtual diversity integration: 1 strategy Coastline language/culture “problem defining” Determine each learner’s mood Determine preferred learning styles Determine central goal and ancillaries Experiment! KA Watson, Coastline CC 15

16. Virtual diversity integration: a second strategy Coastline French “role playing” Experimentation Engagement Immersion Argumentation à la française Spherical growth KA Watson, Coastline CC 16

17. Innovation, integration, and diversity: strategy #3 Coastline French “problem-solving alternatives” Empathy development Thought process development Productivity development Creativity development Non-evaluative, transdisciplinary thought development KA Watson, Coastline CC 17

18. Virtually integrated diversity is… Cross-cultural, literally and figuratively Cross-generational Transdisciplinary 18 KA Watson, Coastline CC