Different minds, different routes
Design thinking and Kirton KAI problem solving.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Solving Complex Problems and Decision Making
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module offers a deliberately bounded introduction to design thinking as one problem solving technique among several, as used in Avanti's work with a local authority. It covers starting from the person rather than the specification, combining divergent and convergent thinking in sequence, and IDEO's three tests of desirable, feasible and viable. IDEO's four day shopping cart redesign shows the method in action, and four simple moves bring it into everyday work. People who approach problems differently often misjudge each other, and this module offers a vocabulary for that. It introduces Michael Kirton's Adaption Innovation continuum, what KAI does and does not measure, and three common misreadings. It explores what adaptors and innovators each bring, how they misjudge one another under pressure, and how to read friction as difference rather than conflict, before turning to designing, matching and sequencing a mixed team.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Identify when the need itself is uncertain enough to call for design thinking rather than another technique.
- Explain how divergent and convergent thinking work in sequence, and recognise whether a group is widening or narrowing.
- Apply the desirable, feasible and viable tests separately to a proposed solution.
- Describe Kirton's Adaption Innovation continuum and distinguish what KAI measures from personality and learning style.
- Explain how adaptors and innovators misjudge each other and reframe that friction as a difference in style.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 11Design Thinking: One Technique Among SeveralThis module offers a deliberately bounded introduction to design thinking as one problem solving technique among several, as used in Avanti's work with a local authority. It covers starting from the person rather than the specification, combining divergent and convergent thinking in sequence, and IDEO's three tests of desirable, feasible and viable. IDEO's four day shopping cart redesign shows the method in action, and four simple moves bring it into everyday work.38 min
- 12Adaptors and Innovators: Kirton's KAI and Problem Solving StylePeople who approach problems differently often misjudge each other, and this module offers a vocabulary for that. It introduces Michael Kirton's Adaption Innovation continuum, what KAI does and does not measure, and three common misreadings. It explores what adaptors and innovators each bring, how they misjudge one another under pressure, and how to read friction as difference rather than conflict, before turning to designing, matching and sequencing a mixed team.39 min
Keep going.
Part of the Solving Complex Problems and Decision Making topic, also sold whole as Clear calls in complex times.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Evidence and instinct, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Tools for hard choices, 7 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, Clear calls in complex times, 13 hours 30 minutes, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Better ideas, made together
Other Bitesize in the Solving Complex Problems and Decision Making topic
- Solving is not decidingProblem solving and decision making basics1 hour 15 minutes£39
- The minds behind our choicesBounded rationality and prospect theory1 hour 15 minutes£39
- The value of a dissenting voiceGroupthink and problem structuring methods1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Fast thinking, slow thinkingKepner Tregoe, OODA loop and decision rights1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Weighing the optionsCost benefit analysis and data for decisions1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Getting to the root of itRoot cause analysis: five whys and fishbone1 hour 15 minutes£39
