94762 The Innovation Lab
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Credit points: 9 cp
Result type: Grade, no marks
Requisite(s): 94758 Digging for Paradigms
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Description
In this subject learners develop experimental projects to explore strategies to bridge the gap between their organisation’s current paradigm and the identified desired future state. This includes setting a strategic challenge, engaging in considered process of innovation, as well as proposing the network/environment within and around the organization that serves as a context for the experimental projects. Projects bring together CISI learning with a focus on conditions that foster shared personal and collective vitality that simultaneously catalyze innovation ecosystems responsive to change and complexity.
Teaching and learning strategies
This bespoke Lab offers an opportunity for participants to apply their learning within the program to develop a strategic and bold future-oriented direction for organisational transformation, tailored to the context of participants’ practice. In this subject, participants undertake experimental project which can be critical, formative, and/or strategic.
Throughout the Innovation Lab learners evolve their innovation ecology by working with peers, academics, industry mentors and colleagues to generate feedback as part on ongoing innovation loops and will be supported through a library of self-directed modules to support your research, online mentoring and face to face workshops.
Through establishing the context for innovation work – the necessary conditions, structures, and networks – participants catalyse discussion about innovation practices in their organisations.
Content (topics)
The experiments cycle through iterative phases:
• Mapping out your Innovation Ecosystem.
• Identifying intention and ambition of the innovation ecosystem?
• Points of intervention and iterative evaluation
• Values, flows and living loops.
• Experiment creation -engaging with hyper complexity.
• Colours of change theory – transdisciplinary psychology
• Engaging people and sustaining momentum for change
• Creating Vitality
• Paradoxes, Frames and Agency
• Reflections and grounding the story
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Workshop Presentation
| Type: | Design/drawing/plan/sketch |
|---|---|
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 30% |
Assessment task 2: Report
| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 3 and 4 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Presentation |
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed |
| Weight: | 70% |
Minimum requirements
To pass this subject, students must make a reasonable attempt to meet the expectations outlined in the brief of each assessment task and achieve an overall pass grade for the subject.