He does have a habit of throwing timely comment into the pot does that Verganti fellow.
The " Taking a critical stance does not imply being negative" reminded me of a short book I read recently:
Stefan Collini
That's Offensive!: Criticism, Identity, Respect (Manifesto for the 21st Century. In Collabroration with Index Censorship)
"That's Offensive!" examines the common assertion that to criticize someone else's deeply held ideas or beliefs is inherently offensive.....
His maxims - do not be so afraid of giving offense that you allow bad arguments to pass as though they were good ones, and do not allow your concern for the disadvantaged to exempt their beliefs from the kind of rational scrutiny to which your own must also be subjected - provide solid guiding principles for dialogue in our world today."
Sparring partner is interesting in that they are generally deployed in preparation for the "big fight" and often selected to offer a similar challenge - Would similar selection criteria be appropriate in this context?
Collini's "What are Universities for?" also discusses questionable assertions in another context........
Dr. Darren Southee
Programme Director MA Industrial Design & Technology
Design Practice Research Group
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Subject: Roberto Verganti on "The Innovative Power of Criticism"
Dear Colleagues,
Let me draw your attention to a new article by Roberto Verganti in Harvard Business Review titled “The Innovative Power of Criticism.” According to Verganti, it is judgment rather than ideation that is the key to breakthroughs.
You will find it at URL:
https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-innovative-power-of-criticism
Abstract: We live in a world awash of opportunities. Thanks to the web, to globalization and to approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations easily have access to an unprecedented amount of ideas. The most difficult thing in this context, is to understand which direction to go. Often, the right ideas are even already in front of our eyes, but we recognize only those that support an old path. What we need, to recognize breakthrough directions, is not to generate one more idea, but to change our lenses. How? Through the art of criticism. The art of criticism enables us to explicitly question existing assumptions and turn them into a bold new interpretation. Taking a critical stance does not imply being negative, but going deeper, searching for contrasts between different perspectives, creating tensions, looking from a new vantage point, reshuffling things to find a new order. The article describes how to practice the art of criticism through cases and methods, such as working with a sparring partner, or clashing visions within radical circles. “While ideation postpones judgment, the art of criticism innovates through judgment”.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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