Situated identities: a safety net to serious play
Identities and roles, in any kind of organised society, are said to be socially constructed: they are based on the implicit rules of collective agreement and acceptance. This makes most of such roles...
View ArticlePlay to build organisations’ social capital
The simplest questions are the toughest to be faced. Methodologies like LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP) are said and proved to have a huge effect on organisations. Right, organisations. But what are...
View ArticleLEGO SERIOUS PLAY and Architecture: The presentations
For those who were not there and for those who want to keep reflecting on the contents presented on Saturday 23rd March in Ferrara [Italy], here are the Keynote speakers’ presentation. A big thank you...
View ArticlePut knowledge into action and build organisational wisdom: LSP and DIKW
The importance of organisations’ relationship capital lies in the quality of the relations established by the members of an organisation, and in organisations’ capacity to turn a group of individuals...
View ArticleOrganisations as organisms: consciousness and wellness
A large extend of organisational theory considered organisations from a mechanistic and traditional view. However, organisations can be seen much more like living biological organism. The etymology of...
View ArticleUser requirements & Co-creation: an Agile approach
User centred design (UCD) is an approach that considers the user as the central point of any design process. UCD projects traditionally implied a preliminary study of users to collect their needs and...
View ArticleThe collective mind of Serious Play
In the past few years, the number of articles published around Lego Serious Play is hugely increased. The initial theories developed in the mid ’90s, 20 years ago, by Johan Ross and Bart Viktor and put...
View ArticleCo-creating user experiences through users’ engagement and empowerment
In the past few years, we have assisted to a sort of divorce between users and organisations: technology has bought in a wide range of new behaviours and opportunities that companies are not always...
View ArticleThe LSP facilitator’s challenge
Facilitating is an art. it requires a mix of personality traits, like the ability to guide and lead a group, a set of knowledge about group dynamics, psychology, and techniques. A facilitator is...
View ArticleThe responsibility of UX: generate Value. But what is Value?
One of the biggest challenges today, is to deliver meaningful experiences that create value to brands and are valuable for the users. As UX and CX professionals we are today responsible for the value...
View ArticleWhy Digital Transformation has nothing to do with Digital
IDC predicts that 2016 will be shaped by digital transformation, with availability, capabilities and business needs being the biggest related issues IT leadership will face. With this announcement...
View ArticleThe relationship between Business & Design: the Lego Serious Play case
The relationship between business and design has gone through deep changes in the past years. We are assisting at a convergence between business and design lead by the formalisation and adoption of...
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