Week 5 Graded quiz

Week 5 Graded quiz >> Personal & Family Financial Planning

This refers to when a social innovation challenges and changes the underlying system conditions that caused the social or environmental problem in the first place.

This is when a social innovation becomes a full-on commercial business and has lost its original premise or reason for existing.

This means when a social innovation has scaled to the extent that it is well-known and sustainable.

This means that social innovations develop and use new technologies.

Feedback from users on a product or service is always limited in use as it is so partial and many users don’t know what it is they really want or need.

Getting feedback on a product or service is usually quite resource intensive and takes away resources that could be used to create new innovations.

There is no limitation as the whole point of the Design Thinking process for social innovation is to get feedback and any feedback is going to be useful.

Only focusing on feedback on the product or service means we don’t get to understand how other parts of the system change.

When you break into a secure system, such as a banking system, to check if its security protocol is sound.

Disruptions to the normal way of doing things that can cause anxiety due to the systems’ rules being challenged.

A chemical experiment involving salt and electrical pulses.

Ascertaining the rate at which whales breach during the migration season.

A system defined by size – such a system is extremely large with many components and stakeholders.

A system that is formed due to clear pre-defined sets of rules written by experts.

A system is a state of affairs that has no boundaries or rules and is therefore unpredictable and chaotic.

A system that comes about due to the ongoing series of micro-interactions of people performing their scripted roles.

The system questions reveal where the funding gaps are so more resources can be directed accordingly.

The system questions help us to find the hidden resources in the system.

The system questions help us who are the most important people in the system.

The system questions help us map out the social system and the rules that govern it so we can see where deeper impacts of an innovation could happen.

The answer to the why question will indicate whether the person is genuine about social innovation.

Asking the why question puts a boundary around and informs what will be possible in any innovation.

It’s important to ask the why question as having a sense of why you are doing something is very motivating.

Actually, it’s not the most important question – they are all important and need to be answered in the order they are presented.

Looking at roles of students and care home residents that have emerged to see if there might be more boundary crossing and deeper impacts. For example, senior citizens and students may become co-learners on a programme.

Asking students and care home residents if the arrangement is working out for them and taking their advice.

Do nothing at all! The innovation is working well and further disruptions might ruin what is a successful project.

Start a publicity campaign to get visibility for Humanitas which will deepen its impact.

Show empathy, advance slowly and listen to the system as you work on your social innovation.

Systems need to be broken for innovations to happen so innovators should plan for high disruption even if it is relatively painful.

Resistance is indication of likely failure as you need all stakeholders on board at the beginning, so they recommend not wasting further resources.

A compelling social innovation is likely to be accepted by key stakeholders so it’s unlikely you will get much resistance.

Week 5 Graded quiz >> Personal & Family Financial Planning

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