Use the five-step Reframing method to start thinking differently about products, projects, stakeholders, business models and customers. Challenge cherished assumptions and reframe these to design radically innovative approaches that you can put into practice right away.
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Why is the world the way that is is now? How did it get to be this way, and how will it change in the future? What fundamental changes are upon us, and how will this affect me? A paradigm is a way of looking at the world and a way of acting in the world. Recognizing and understanding paradigm shifts allows us to understand the fundamental changes that we are going through.
Ideally, feedback offers wonderful opportunities for improvement in the creative process. Giving and receiving feedback well is not easy, however. All too often, those giving feedback fall into judgment or giving advice, and those receiving feedback become overwhelmed and defensive: we find it hard not to take it personally.
These feedback formats – adapted from existing feedback and thinking techniques – will help you to break through usual feedback patterns and to separate thinking from emotion. Feel free to use the videos, powerpoints and handouts in your own sessions. These formats are specifically for group peer feedback sessions on work-in-progress – if your situation is different, you will need to adapt them. Good luck!
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Three core steps of transformative thinking: 1. Analyse what we think now 2. Radically change our thinking 3. Design a practical experiment for our new approach.
Reframing: we challenge our current assumptions to generate radically new approaches.
Paradigm Shifts: we identify internal or external shifts and design approaches that fit the new paradigm.
Simplify: we ruthlessly examine our current workflow in order to work smart, not hard.
Shaping our Future: we explore how to turn our core individual or corporate purpose into impactful action.
Climate Positivity: we investigate how we can impact the climate crisis at scale through our professional role.
Interactive lectures combine a slide presentation with several rounds of pair discussion and plenary debriefs. They last between 45-75 minutes, can be given live or online, and scaled from dozens to hundreds of participants.
Workshops follow the same topics and structure as interactive lectures but have much deeper analysis and group discussion. They include preparatory research into organisational priorities, sector shifts and future strategies, and have the most impact at pivotal points for teams or organisations. Workshops are better live but can be given online, take 2 to 6 hours, and are scalable from small groups of 6 to dozens or even hundreds of participants.
Worldwide clients include tech: Nokia, Amazon AWS, Oracle; consulting: EY; PwC; banks: Rabobank, Handelsbanken; pharma: Amgen, teva; service: JustEatTakeaway; housing corporations; secondary education; government: European Commission, Dutch ministries, municipalities; and business schools: AOG School of Management, Nyenrode University.
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Why do we do the things that we do? And: how could we do things differently? All of our thinking and actions are based on assumptions, most of which remain unexamined. We analyse our assumptions in order to reframe our approach and experiment with new actions. We do this with personal, team and organisational projects.
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The world is changing rapidly on many levels. This is a challenge for established businesses but also provides great opportunities for innovative approaches. Paradigm shifts help us to make sense of these momentous changes: we analyse the disruptive consequences and golden opportunities of paradigm shifts in your sector.
We use the Reframing methodology to overturn our core beliefs. By questioning our assumptions, we can start to think differently about products, projects, stakeholder, business models and customers. We design experiments based on radical assumptions to turn our innovative thinking into immediate action.
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