Food for Thought Blog > TRIZ with Improv Prototyping
Thrilled for you and the group. Love how you linked TRIZ and Improv Prototyping to get results quickly. Too often culture change efforts fall flat or wilt.
I have questions. Were you the facilitator? If yes, what differences did you notice compared to conventional approaches?
What is your next move?
Keith McCandless
Yes Crystal you are right on when you write "Liberating Structures gave us a framework but many of the benefits came from personal Ah-Ha moments". I would add another indispensable: Liberating Structures provide spaces for these Ah-Ha moments to take place in the community of others. This provides support, validation, opportunities to share and discuss, etc. all of which greatly increase the likelihood that these Ah-Ha moments will translate into action instead of vanishing in the black hole of good intentions.
Would love to hear more.
Thanks for sharing!
Henri
Chystal- Congrats on this BIG-AHA! moment.
The Aha! moment is the point in the user experience where your group outcomes or product’s value becomes clear to your users. You judge whether and how this happens on an outcome-by-outcome basis, but the end-result you’re looking for is usually some form of long-term retention.
Much of Facebook’s growth in the ensuing years came about because they were able to take that knowledge and leverage it. By devoting their efforts to bringing more new Facebook users to their Aha! moments, the Growth team grew Facebook to a billion users worldwide.
May your journey lead to similar results.
Frank Voehl
Chystal- Congrats on this BIG-AHA! moment.
The Aha! moment is the point in the user experience where your group outcomes or product’s value becomes clear to your users. You judge whether and how this happens on an outcome-by-outcome basis, but the end-result you’re looking for is usually some form of long-term retention.
Much of Facebook’s growth in the ensuing years came about because they were able to take that knowledge and leverage it. By devoting their efforts to bringing more new Facebook users to their Aha! moments, the Growth team grew Facebook to a billion users worldwide.
May your journey lead to similar results.
Frank Voehl
Hello! We just finished a group discussion/facilitation that was completely built around TRIZ and Improv Prototyping. It started two weeks ago when, as a company, was used TRIZ to determine action steps for creating the worst company culture the world had ever seemed. The company was split up into several small groups in which a different person from each team formed a group--1 corporate, 1 software development, 1 coach, for instance. The ideas were endless and all over the map. We also did round two in which we use 1-3-All to determine if any currently behaviors and actions were leading down the path of bad company culture. We put all these actions on a board and started to cluster like ideas together. Communication, Vision, Trust, Fear were some of the clusters. So each group of 3 took a cluster and for the next two weeks created skits in which they would show what Amazing Company Culture looks like so we would have tangible ideas, thoughts and feelings that could be implemented. This was our spin on Improv Prototyping
The results of all this were astounding. Actionable tasks came out of the group after the skits were complete to continue building good culture. Several people said just having a common goal in which they worked with people from other teams in the company was a big benefit. So the Liberating Structures gave us a framework but many of the benefits came from personal Ah-Ha moments. These moments, we feel, are most important when helping people challenge their own mindsets and create a space for real, long-lasting change.