The significance of “design thinking” to innovation and collaboration could not be better demonstrated than in it is here, in Tom Wujec’s TED talk. Tom presents his research using “the marshmallow tower.” This simple exercise reveals profound (and amusing) truths about how people think, and how that thinking can kill – or cultivate – creativity.
Pranav Mistry, the creator of the SixthSense Technology, presents tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop.” (TedIndia, 2009)
In an innovative culture, high cultural intelligence (CQ) is present, valued and nurtured. The economic demands on organizations to become laboratories of innovation will require workforces made up of individuals possessing high CQ. As high CQ becomes more and more valued, and in turn becomes part of business school training, the wider culture will begin to find greater flexibility along the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions over time.