In his presentations, Paul Iske addresses topics like (combinatoric) innovation, knowledge management, creativity and sustainability. He is often asked to tell about the Institute of Brilliant Failures, which he founded to stress the importance of (joint) experiments and the need to accept risk and learn from experiences with projects that didn’t produce the results people were aiming for. In our dynamic and complex world, failing is not only inevitable, but also an essential learning process. While everyone agrees that we should learn from our failures, no one tells us 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 share these lessons and use them at another moment, at another place.

In interactive session, participants will learn the ‘failure patterns’ and how this method can be used to learn before starting a new project (‘forward failing’), during the execution of an activity (learning while doing) and after a project (reflection). This helps to develop ‘Failure Intelligence’.

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