Innovative Design Reflection

Running Head: INNOVATIVE DESIGN REFLECTION
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Innovative Design Reflection
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3/16/2019

Innovative Design Reflection
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Innovative Design Reflection
In this reflective paper, I will reflect upon strategic innovation opportunities recognized by
my team while working on the innovation design project. I will reflect over how important
tools utilised and helped my team while analysing the value proposition as well as
stakeholders mapped within the recent service design case. Besides, I will reflect upon how
such tools utilised helped our team, while identifying strategic opportunities for co-creation
and social innovation. With the help of this reflective writing, I will demonstrate the
importance of learning by doing and learning by practice (Heyrup & Bente, 2009). In this
way, self-reflection will be beneficial for my future career and professional development
(Heyrup & Bente, 2009).
After completing this module of designing innovation project I acquired skills for effectively
working in design innovative teams. I also gained experience of managing complex service
innovation procedures as well as working successfully in the field of design innovation.
While I was gaining knowledge and understanding during the module, I understood the
service design area, through focusing on social innovation (Belbin, 2012). In addition, my
team gained awareness about the key issues related to social impact and value co-creation.
My experience of the module made me understand the effects of team-building on effective
project management (Heyrup & Bente, 2009). My team and I together analysed current
service-design cases through identifying strategic opportunities for innovation. I would like to
mention that my experience of utilising digital communication tools was excellent in terms of
future career development (Osterwalde, 2014).
I also acquired many transferable skills during the module, for an example, our team used
service design as well as innovation management tools which will benefit my future
professional life in the relevant field. In addition, while I and my team were analysing the
value proposition as well as stakeholders mapped in the current service design cases then we
got engaged with problem-solving by applying creative thinking. It means that our project
designing through innovative ideas required problem-solving at many instances, hence my
team used analytical and creative thinking to resolve all of those issues. Additionally, I
observed that while working with the module team needed to develop the effective means for
implementing and communicating useful strategies (Rita et al., 2016).

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From the perspective of teamwork skills, I gained a life-long experience and learning after
working with the great team of mine. In this context, my team has successfully demonstrated
planning and organizing skills. We all team members understood that to be organized getting
tasks done within the deadlines is essential. Along with the problem-solving skills, I also
demonstrated effective and prompt decision-making skills while helping my team in taking
important team-decisions (Belbin, 2012). I also realised that effective and professional
communication is necessary to maintain harmony within a team, and hence I decided to
nurture my basic communication skills to be successful in near future. The process of
developing team-work skills allowed me to identify the role of persuasion as well as
influencing skills while managing harmony in my team. I and my team members learnt
conflict resolution at a large extent as we were working on design project through innovation.
In addition, our tutor taught us how to develop critical reflection skills along with the essay
writing guidelines (Colenso, 2012).
Source: (Osterwalde, 2014)
In addition, my team and I utilised important tools for analysing the value proposition and
stakeholders map within the current services design cases. I learnt a lot about stakeholder
map as that map let us knew about the people who are greatly influenced form social