Team work is a key factor for successful change within companies in order to achieve a people-centred approach. From her experience, Anna Kirah has learned that change does not happen until all the areas of a company assimilate the language and the culture of the people they are innovating for and that there is an interdisciplinary dialogue across different departments. According to this specialist, virtual environments have come to play a central role in the daily routine within companies. LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, blogs and document share sites have a huge impact on what we do and how we learn and hold on to new knowledge. However, she points out that eLearning and personalised learning environments must be easily adaptable to team thinking and team work.

From her point of view, it is important not to repress the children’s natural curiosity and creativity. Moreover, the development of an innovative mindset should be encouraged from the beginning: the key challenge is to bring back “Why” to everyday’s life. Posing the question “Why” challenges people to apply it in existing products, services and organisations, and enables discovering meaningful innovative solutions.

Anna Kirah knows that anyone can be an innovator. However, the politics and cultures of innovation in organisations quite often prevent us from seeing and reaching the real changes. Many leaders don’t recognise the innovation when they see it because they are not connected to the very people they are innovating for.

Intercultural learning challenges us to face new experiences and enables us to develop a global mindset, not only physically but also in the cyberspace. Innovation and learning comes from new experiences, from exceeding the safety of what we know and living something new and different. A global mindset allows us to transcend the constraints of our own culture and to see the world for what it really is.