It has been very interesting to compare the first project-plan I developed for the transformation of UniSIM with the result we now present after having researched the needs and expectations of the stakeholders (students and faculty). Now, I realize that my intuitive project-planning is based on a general western tradition. The Confucian leadership provides the leaders with more responsibility and influence than I am used to. It is important to consider in the planning phase. So, working with distributed leadership and horizontal learning processes is another challenge in this culture than in Scandinavian context. The variety of tools and methods for involving different stakeholders and their perspective has to be broader in Singapore. As a leader you cannot expect the followers to express their opinions eventhough you ask them to. In a Scandinavian context, you can be sure that everyone expresses an opinion - eventhough they were not asked to.
In my daily work, user-driven innovation and design-based research are in focus. If I should work in this way in an Asian context, I should re-think many of the procedures and methods usable in Western Europe.
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