Dhani Spiller on How to Reinvent Work Cultures with Design Thinking

The most successful brands use Design Thinking - IBM, Google, Airbnb, PepsiCo and Nike are just a few of the wildly successful brands that consider design thinking a core part of their culture and way of doing business.

Data from McKinsey shows that organizations that regularly follow design thinking practices see 56 percent higher returns than those that don’t.

But today Design Thinking is mainly used for product innovation - what if it was used to reinvent awesome work cultures?

My guest is Dhani Spiller. And this is how I met him: I enjoy attending Innovation workshops and had the chance to attend one of his - what stroke me about Dhani, is that most Design Thinking (DT) coaches are focused on the process side while he is focused on the human side of the DT approach. That made my aha moment!

About Dhani Spiller

Dhani is the Head of Digital Fitness Programme (Digital Transformation) at the UNDP - The United Nations Development Programme that works in nearly 170 countries, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. He also worked for the World Food Program - driving its innovation program. Overall, his amazing career is mainly about helping international organizations to innovate (public and private sector).

Reach Dhani Spiller at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhanispiller/ 

What we discussed in this episode of Growth Hacking Culture on Reinventing Work Cultures with Design Thinking

• Dhani's journey of working in INNOVATION in multiple countries, different industries, purposed and less purposed organizations
• Design Thinking, Human Biases, Ego and the way our brain is wired
• Is Design Thinking a magic formula to practice human centric behaviors - participative contribution, the team is all in a common challenge, practice of empathy?
• Using Design Thinking to (re-design) work cultures instead of traditional brainstorm sessions
• Actions to get rid of toxic culture

 

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This episode is hosted by Ivan Palomino - He is a Learning Strategist and Behavioral Designer. He helps organizations build human-centric work cultures.

This episode is brought to you by PeopleKult - the next generation work culture powered by brain and data science.

 

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