Monday, August 13, 2018

The New Book “Digital Hybridity” Chapter 3 The Hybrid Thinking Introduction

Hybrid Thinking is not just another digital “buzzword,” but a set of the digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think big, think deeper, think broader, and think critically.


The digital business is perceived as the future of the organization within the hybrid, networked, and extended modern working environment to empower workforce communication, sharing thoughts and ideas, engaging customers and partners to voice their concerns and feedback, and encouraging broader conversations and interactions with the business ecosystem. Therefore, digital leaders and professionals should learn how to leverage hybrid thinking which is a set of interdisciplinary and integrative thinking processes to manage a smooth digital paradigm shift by solving many of today’s complex problems that require strategic consideration, system intelligence, innovative approaches, and interdisciplinary understanding.

The pair of critical thinking & creative thinking: Both critical thinking and creative thinking are vital in the digital workplace. In fact, for either to be effective, critical thinking and creative thinking are both important and must work in tandem. The more creative you are, the better you are at solving problems. However, creativity is stifled by business reality if you aren’t leveraging logic and critical thinking. In the digital setting with “VUCA’ characteristics, creativity and critical thinking shouldn’t only be the “privilege” of a small percentage of workers but need to become the mainstream digital thinking scenario. To build the culture of creativity, both are essential in today’s workforce seeing as to how the current economy demands the creative eye to look at things and discover new innovative ways to handle problems. In fact, critical thinking evolves deep thinking process usually with creative thinking embedded; creative thinking and critical thinking are two types of “out of the box” thinking to challenge conventional wisdom and bring up the new perspective for framing and solving problems.

The pair of systems Thinking & process thinking: Systems Thinking is how the whole system works together. A process is a smaller part of the larger system. Systems Thinking and Process Thinking are both purposeful. Process thinking is more focused and specific, while systems thinking is to see the interconnected whole. Many who believe they are process-thinkers believe that they are logical and they proceed in a logical progression. Many who believe they are systems thinkers, think of themselves as seeing the “bigger” picture, or the global outlook, as well as how their thinking may be based on a set of preordained principles. Therefore, process thinking is considered micro or focused on a specific perspective, whereas systems thinking could be considered macro or broad-based in nature. What is needed for problem-solving is to bridge the two perspectives - the process perspective and system perspective so that they can enhance each other for improving decision effectiveness and problem-solving capability.

The pair of divergent thinking and convergent thinking: Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. Convergent thinking follows a particular set of logical steps to arrive at one solution that in some cases, is a “correct” solution. Divergent thinking typically occurs in a spontaneous and free-flowing matter, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion and explored in a short amount of time, so unexpected connections are drawn. After the process of divergent thinking has been completed, ideas and information are organized and structured by leveraging convergent thinking. Innovation, to a certain degree, the process to transform a novel idea to the business value, is a combination of divergent and convergent thinking, the systematic and synthetic processes.

Hybrid Thinking is not just another digital “buzzword,” but a set of the digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think big, think deeper, think broader, and think critically, etc, in solving complex problems and making tough decisions for leading changes and accelerating digital transformation.

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