Social Innovation - Changing your Lense
•Download as PPT, PDF•
1 like•679 views
This document discusses social innovation and how to approach it. It defines innovation as creativity combined with execution. Some key aspects of innovators are that they generate many ideas, are willing to take risks, can collaborate, and see projects through to completion. The document encourages shifting focus from innovations in specific fields to innovations that can help problems in areas like poverty, health, education, and sustainability. It provides tips for social innovators such as looking for grassroots innovations, trying different environments, keeping working on problems, and building on previous ideas. The overall message is about harnessing creativity to develop innovations that can create positive social change.
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (19)
Viewers also liked
Similar to Social Innovation - Changing your Lense
Similar to Social Innovation - Changing your Lense (20)
More from Rene Parker
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Social Innovation - Changing your Lense
- 2. THE ROAD AHEAD • • • • • Check-In What is innovation? Characteristics of an innovator Where to look for innovation? Shifting our focus from the world of innovation to innovation for the world
- 4. WHAT IS
- 5. INNOVATION EQUATION Innovation = Creativity X Execution
- 6. Innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations
- 10. • Many ideas (many bad) A Blog is born…
- 11. • Willing to take risks
- 12. Able to see things through
- 13. • Collaborator
- 14. Able to build/expand on what is available
- 16. WHERE TO LOOK FOR INNOVATION?
- 19. CHANGING YOUR
- 23. Global
- 24. Poverty
- 25. Health
- 26. Education
- 27. Finance
- 28. Infrastructure
- 30. As Innovators we need a shift of focus…
- 31. …from the world of innovation…
- 32. … to innovation for the world…
- 34. What do you have in your hand?
- 37. Don’t be afraid to stand out
- 41. What resources will you need?
- 43. Try a different environment
- 44. Sustainability
- 47. Give yourself permission to think up many ideas
- 48. Keep chewing on the problem
- 49. Build on ideas that came before
Editor's Notes
- Have participants write on post-it notes what they think innovation is
- 3D construction challenge
- Can either collaborate or work alone on construction
- Participants write on post-it notes the characteristics of an innovator
- Give participants a foam or paper cup with hole in bottom. They have write as many problems they see in the community. They look into the cup through the hole and say what they can see.
- Give each group a flipchart sheet and they have to write the 3 most common problems everyone in the group wrote on the foam or paper cup.
- Participants turn their cups around and look through it again
- Now the students look at the problem and say how much of the word they can see
- If the participants were super heroes. How would they look at the problems and come up with solutions
- How many of their problems they wrote down within their groups were actually global problems
- How many participants actually mentioned poverty?
- How many participants actually mentioned health?
- How many participants actually mentioned education?
- How many participants actually mentioned finance?
- How many participants actually mentioned infrastructure?
- What do you need to bear in mind when innovating for the world?
- Groups present back their solutions
- Help participants to think of global solutions
- Give participants chewing gum to help them chew on their problems
- Participants come up with solutions the groups problems and it has to be global solutions
- Groups give feedback to the larger group