Change & Complexity

Collaboration Rapid Solutions Innovation

This is the official blog of Kultur Design, a strategy and innovation company that helps organizations solve complex problems and leverage breakthrough ideas.

We dwell in a rapidly changing and complex world, driven largely by technology. Technology is a system unto itself, under which all of our modern institutions are subsumed and linked together across the globe. This system is a rapidly adaptive and formidably complex one.

This new system places a premium on collaboration:  the bringing together of large(r) groups of people with different ways of seeing the organization and the world, the diversity of which can be leveraged into a requisite solution.

It is often the case that we make decisions only to realize that they were for the Age of Yesterday, rather than what they need to be for: The Age of Tomorrow. This requires the ability to create rapid solutions through prototyping and iteration.

Innovation is the application of creativity to challenges and opportunities. It is a critical antidote to change and complexity. Any organization wishing to be viable in the 21st Century must have a philosophy and culture of innovation.

Why design? Because design is a primary function of our modern world, wether it’s a widget, website, information archive, or city street. Our world is becoming more and more a product of human design. To change our world for the better requires a way of thinking about it and engaging it as a designer would: with intent, creativity, and an eye on the future

This blog is an exploration into this world of rapid change and complexity, created to provide insights and new ways of thinking about the future and how one goes about adapting to it, whether in business or in one’s own creative life.