This document discusses Lego Serious Play, a process created in the 1990s that uses Lego bricks to foster creative thinking and problem solving through team building metaphors. Participants work through imaginary scenarios using three-dimensional Lego constructions to describe, create, and challenge their views of business issues. The goal is to enhance innovation and performance by allowing teams to gain insights, confidence, and commitment through a visual and hands-on play experience.

1. by Thanakrit Lersmethasakul
lersmethasakul@live.com

2. LEGOSERIOUS PLAY
is an innovative,
experiential process,
powerful tool designed
to enhance innovation
and business
performance.

3. Its goal is fostering creative thinking through
team building metaphors of their organizational
identities and experiences using Lego bricks.
Participants work through imaginary scenarios using
visual three-dimensional Lego constructions, hence
the name "serious play".

4. Johan Roos and Bart Victor created the
“serious play” concept and process in the mid-1990s
as way to enable managers to describe, create and
challenge their views of their business.

5. The conceptual foundation of serious play
combines ideas from constructivism (Piaget 1951), its
subsequent version constructionism (Harel and Papert 1991),
complex adaptive system theory (Holland 1995) and
autopoietic corporate epistemology (von Krogh and Roos
1994; 1995) applied to the context of management and
organizations.

6. Insight
Confidence
Commitment

7. APPLICATIONS FOR
ORGANIZATIONS,
TEAMS AND INDIVIDUALS.

8. FAST-TRACK
TO THE REAL ISSUES,
AND MAKE MORE, BETTER
AND FASTER DECISIONS.

9. Building is very impactful. It allows us
to listen to the whole person/team.
To hear people’s fears, intentions,
and inspiration …

10. IT'S PLAY WITH A PURPOSE

11. Everyone can contribute to the
discussion, the decisions, and
the outcome.

12. "You can learn more about a
person in an hour of play than
you can from a lifetime of
conversation"
-Plato

13. THANK YOU