Business & Entrepreneurship

To create meaningful changes, my designs need to be scalable. Thinking about costs and ways to minimize them separates a general project from a university or graduation project. Especially if I want to build something, the costs of the prototype will be way higher than a potential scalable version would be. It’s fine, but considering it shows the overlap between T&R and B&E. During the internship the core question of how to incentivize innovation tackled this problem. Commercial stakeholders were unwilling to invest in newer and modern innovations due to budgets and margins getting too small, when you get undercut by a party that doesn’t want to innovate and only competes in price. The sector itself was already conservative, but this made forward thinking very difficult. Which is the opposite of what a designer thinks.

Setting up a new process for innovation required to see the bigger picture and start thinking in systems, what are the pain points? Where does there need to be a push, and where can we leave out help? How do we as independent organizations stay unbiased and try to create a process that is unbiased? All sorts of questions like these arise during brainstorming and taking inspiration from examples of policies that have been worked in other countries you come to an initial start.

Using the models I learned and used in DIM, I analyzed and synthesized findings to use and present in reports. It became abundantly clear that writing visually works way better for conversation and willingness to read than lines of text. This is still something I’m working on, as it’s very easy for me to write and go through my thought process. How chaotic it may look for others, working visually would help me as well in getting the story clear. I have started to notice more often that coworkers or students can’t follow my thought process, and I have to slow down to explain it. Which is why I want to improve at storytelling.