A General Intro
Bayer R&DQ
Steering Into The Future 2020
”The Future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
A1 What’s in the box? A. General Intro
1. What's in the Box? 2. Getting Started 3. Who can help? 4. Program Concept and Objectives 5. Program Structure
B. Thinking Tools
1. Fertile question and Thinking Communities 2. PNI/STA
3. The 4 Types of Common thinking mistakes
4. Brain Dominance Model
C. Design teams (available only for the Design teams)
The Future of Design – models, materials and approaches
C. Think Tanks (available only for the Think Tanks teams) White paper formats
D. Additional Resources 1. Process Tools 2. The Futurist Terminology 3. Questions Bank 4. Trends
E. Credits
General Intro
A
Thinking Tools
B
Design teams
C
Additional Resources
D
Credits
E
Think Tanks
C
A2 How to work Getting Started
Thank you for joining us, on this journey of exploring R&DQ possible futures. To make it easier for all of us to collaborate on-line, and to ensure we are all on the same page, we have prepared this manual for you.
Please read carefully and make sure you and your team follow the guidelines in their right sequence.
Details follow on the next page.
1. Unbox the kit – this is what you do right now ☺
2. Setting up the work plan and learning together and individually
3. Reading and discussing the brief
4. Researching and developing ideas and concepts
5. Developing and formulating your thoughts into delivery
6. Submission and review of your work
7. Publication
The journey is divided into 7 simple steps:
:
A2 How to work Getting Started 1
1. Unbox the kit
a. Please take a few minutes to get to know your teammates.
b. Next, please find the documents marked as B. Take 20-30 minutes,
while online, to read and share with your team your learnings about
this program.
c. Locate the Program Outline image (Document A5), and ensure that
the team understands the flow and timetable.
d. Set up a time and platform (phone/Teams/Skype) for your next
meeting.
e. Say goodbye and meet again to work on step 2 (follows).
A2 How to work Getting Started 2
a. In this section, you will find documents marked as B (Thinking
Tools). Please split into pairs. Each pair will read and learn one
thinking tool and be ready to share and teach it to the other
members of your team.
b. Next, discuss with your team how you can ensure that you will put
these tools and models into practice.
c. Look for the documents marked as D (Additional
Resources). Please split into pairs, have each pair read and
learn one of the four documents, and then share and teach the
other team members.
d. Set up the time and platform (phone/Teams/Skype) for your next
meeting.
e. Say goodbye and meet again to work on step 3 (follows).
2. Set up the work plan, learn together and individually
A2 How to work Getting Started 3,4
3. Read and discuss the brief
Please look for documents C to learn more about your teams track
(Design Teams or Think Tanks). Take 10 minutes, while online, to read
and discuss the challenge as you understand it.
4. Research and create ideas and concepts
a. Create your Fertile Question, as follows:
b. Take 5 minutes to remind everyone what is a Fertile Question
(document B1).
c. In pairs, go over the Question Bank (document D3), and circle out
the 4-5 questions that you are most interested in. You can choose
these questions for different reasons, yet the most important
criterion is that you would love to think of ways to answer them.
d. Together with your partner, create a Fertile Question based on your
selected questions from the bank.
e. Once you are done, have another pair from your team to review your
question, and ensure that it manifests all six characteristics of
a Fertile Question.
f. If needed - make another attempt to sharpen the question.
g. As a team, share all Fertile Questions and choose the one you would
like to work on together.
A2 How to work Getting Started 5
5. Develop and formulate your ideas and thoughts into delivery
Now that you have your Fertile Question ready, work with your team on
creating possible answers and new insights.
a. Create an easy-to-manage work plan for the team, with individual
assignments and peer-support.
b. List tasks such as reading, interviewing, watching videos, searching
for information, analyzing data, capturing and sharing progress and
results.
c. Find the best way for your team to manage and monitor progress
and put these tools in practice.
A2 How to work Getting Started 6,7
6. Submit and review your work
a. By the end of June, you will hand in your work.
b. Once submitted, a quick review process will be conducted jointly with
you.
7. Publication
We are not completely sure about how exactly we are going to publish
your work, but no doubt it will be AMAZING ☺
A2 Thinking Communities – Method Overview
Question Bank
PNI
CTA
Team
Thinking
Thinking
Tendencies
Sharing
Results
4 Common
Mistakes
Process
Management
Fertile
Question
Development
& Writing
A3 Who can help
Innovation always comes with a fair amount of ambiguity. Still, we
hope that the guidelines are clear and that the teams will be able to
figure out their way on their own. This is also an opportunity to learn
from diversity and to be a bit more entrepreneurial. Remember “empowerment over control”? ☺
We would love to hear your thoughts and questions.
1st step – ask your teammates, they may know the answer.
2nd step – ask the iCoach who supports your team.
3rd step – write or call Elias, Anja-Christina Albert or Erez.
We tried to answer most of your questions in advance, when designing
this kit. However, if there is anything that is still unclear or confusing,
here is what we recommend:
A4 Program Concept and
Objectives
This program is intended to enable you to learn and experiment with
a new model, designed to create synergies and add depth to the way
you think in teams.
“Life is complicated” – you’ve probably heard this before.
The economy has changed in the past decades from a single professional
who creates a product or delivers a service from A-Z, to a team-based
process where a number of people are critical to the creation and supply
of goods and services. It took humanity a good 40-50 years to develop
knowledge and methods that enable to bring teams and crews to
optimal performance.
Nowadays, processing information and making decisions is becoming
challenging, mainly due to the need to consider an ever-growing number
of variables and considerations; a lot more than in the past.
There is therefore, an urgent need to learn and acquire methods and
tools that will help us think together, in small and effective teams.
A5 Program structure
iCo
ach
Su
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ort
Review Review
Submissions
Writing the white
paper
Research &
Development
Setup and learning
“Unbox the KIT”
Think
Tanks
Submissions
Creating the design
Research &
Development
Setup and learning
Publication
Jun
e -
Oct
ob
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May
Design
Teams
Teams formation
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