In his presentation, Paul Iske will introduce the Institute of Brilliant Failures to stress the importance of exploration and the need to accept risk and learn from experiences with projects that didn’t produce the results people were aiming for. Of course, we want to avoid failure. However, in our dynamic and complex world, failing is not only inevitable, but also an essential learning process. So, the question is: when are we allowed to fail? Do we experience and contribute to the required Psychological Safety that is required to take risk and accept different outcomes then expected? Where everyone agrees that we should learn from our failures, no one tells how to do this. The Institute of Brilliant Failures has developed a method and some tools to extract the lessons learned and make it possible to use them at another moment, at another place. By doing so, we can develop ‘Failure Intelligence’.
Short Bio:
Paul Iske is professor ‘Individual and Organizational Learning in Complex, Dynamic Environments’ at the School of Business and Economics, University Maastricht, Netherlands, and Visiting Professor ‘Knowledge-driven Innovation’ at the Department of Information Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Paul is founder and CFO (Chief Failure Officer) of the ‘Institute of Brilliant Failures’ (www.brilliantfailures.com), with the mission to highlight the importance of experimentation to achieve paradigm shifts and breakthrough innovation. Paul is Chairman of the Dutch Personalised Healthcare Catalyst Foundation (www.phc-catalyst.nl), with the mission to accelerate the transition towards personalized, data-driven healthcare. He is an international author, consultant and speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge management and creativity. He spent 18 years as Chief Dialogues Officer, Head of Innovation and Knowledge Management at ABN AMRO Bank. Before that, he finished his PhD in Theoretical Physics and fulfilled several jobs in Strategy and R&D at Shell.
Learning outcomes:
- After this presentation, participants will understand the difference between regular failures and brilliant failures and why the latter are creating value;
- After this presentation, participants will understand and be able to contribute an environment that supports explorative and learning behaviour;
- After this presentation, the FQ (Failure Intelligence Quotient) of the participants will have been increased, enabling them to effectively learn from (Brilliant) Failures.
