Human Centered Design and making innovation possible

I take this blog as a summary of what I've learned and thought through the mini session. What we've discussed so far can be summed up as:

What is a good social innovation? How can we make it possible? 

Based on what we've learned, a successful social innovation is a HCD(human-centered design). IDEO illustrated the HCD process in this article:

http://www.hcdconnect.org/toolkit/en

Human-centered design process helps people hear the needs of the people and communities they’re designing for, create innovative approaches to meet these needs, and deliver solutions that work in specific cultural and economic contexts.

The keywords are hear, create, deliver.

IDEO has development online course to help you develop a sense of HCD, which makes this seem a lot easier for everybody to participate as a part of the social change.

http://plusacumen.org/courses/hcd-for-social-innovation/

How can we make a social innovation come to life? Here is an article about how to make successful innovations:

"How to Make Innovation Less Risky"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorieclark/2012/12/09/how-to-make-innovation-less-risky/

Corporations' time in the sun has passed. Sims believes another path forward is through a mashup of “entrepreneurship, social change, and art” (which he’s pursuing with two new projects, the social venture Fuse Corps and the for-profit B corporationthe BLKSHP (think “black sheep”). The shift to a new way of doing business, says Sims, is a return to our entrepreneurial heritage: “It's a healthy cleanse for capitalism.”

Not only has B-corp work great for social entrepreneurs,  corporations are considering joining B-corp as a way to continue their glamor. It's great in a way that more and more people are directed to the path of innovation. Wisdom from different industries are combined, which is great news for SI&E.

There's another take-away from this article: get your hands dirty. Things will never follow what you've planned. Get used to it and learn from it. Here is a cute article with vivid illustration that you can directly take to make a presentation about how to make ideas happen:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/22/how-to-make-innovative-ideas-happen/

Here is an article about "Continued Federal Support for Social Innovation Fund Looks Shaky"
http://philanthropy.com/article/Social-Innovation-Fund-Faces-a/134998/
The future of SI&E, combining what said and what I have in mind, is that the participation and transition of traditional corporations could be a new and prosperous direction to expect that generates good ideas and sustainable development plans rather than the government/NPO direction.