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We Suck at Designing & Changing Organizations!
Can Design Thinking Help Us Do Better?
Our Dilemma – 4 Wicked Issues:
We live in a complex dynamic world of organizations in which we must deal with wicked problems involving a lot of stakeholders who wield power.
There are Four Wicked Issues that sabotage our organizational work:
- Sustaining change – making change stick
- Diffusing Change – spreading change throughout an organization and its ecosystem
- Seeing from an Ecosystems Point of View – A point of view that sees ALL stakeholders and their points of view
- Seeing Digital Impact – understanding the opportunities and constraints imposed by the all-pervasive impact of technology upon how work gets done
Is Design Thinking a Useful, Newish Tool We Can Use?
The fields of organization design and organization development are filled will many tools, ideas, techniques, models, and approaches that prove to be of varying degrees of helpfulness in achieving organization’s desired outcomes. Sorting through this “bag of tricks” and figuring out when to use which one is an ongoing struggle for the practitioner.
Design Thinking is a fairly recent model and approach that is available to the practitioner.
- What are a few basic concepts of Design Thinking?
- How does it fit with other approaches that we have available to us?
- What are some unique perspectives and insights of Design Thinking?
- What is an example of how Design Thinking has contributed to a project?
Join us for a lively discussion on how using design thinking can help us wrangle these four Wicked Issues!
Speaker: Pete Sorenson, CMC® (see BIO below)
We look forward to seeing you July 11 at the University of Dallas!
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Schedule for Thursday Evening:
– 6:30 Networking / Food / Intros
– 7:00 Announcements / Program
– 8:45 Closing and evaluation
Meeting Location:
University of Dallas – SB Hall, Serafy Special Events Room *
Campus: 1845 East Northgate Drive, Irving, TX 75062 (972-721-5000)
Note: SB Hall is on the north side the campus, near Gorman Dr. and Haggar Circle. The SBH Serafy Special Events room is on the first floor (use any door). Easy to find!
Parking: Lot Q, along Dominican Lane (just northeast of the building), or Lot L (to the southwest) is larger.
Speaker BIO: Peter Jay Sorenson, CMC® strategicorganizationdesign.com
We currently live in a digitally fueled, volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, (VUCA) world of organizations.
Pete’s focus is to collaborate on, discover, and create the next generation of organization design technology that can match the speed of change and disruption we are experiencing.
He is also focused on developing the next generation of organization designers that will make this world work from a values, effectiveness, and efficiency point of view.
He is known for his ability to see the big picture, make sense of messes, and lead teams to resolve complex issues. He relates well to people from all stations of life, speaks frankly, and has a practical eye for getting things done.
He currently serves as the President of the Socio-Technical Systems Roundtable Stewards Team and is an Adjunct Lecturer of Engineering in the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University.
In his consulting Pete’s clients come from the High Tech, Healthcare, Energy, Government, and Not-for-Profit Sectors. He has also been deeply involved in humanitarian initiatives in the developing world that focus on entrepreneurship and microfinance.
We look forward to seeing you there!