Saturday, September 18, 2021

Reflection Week 1 BUS 374

    The systems created to help society, like government and education have left out individuals and have cause vulnerabilities and problems within society that need to be addressed. Finding these problems and creating new solutions to them at their root is called social innovation. Social innovation allows individuals to use their passion to help people, societies, and the world by turning their passions into a business. The complex problems that our systems create require complex solutions and the work of social innovation takes that challenge on.

    The video, Ambition, opens by showing clips of things like the building of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Egyptian pyramids, and a rocket into space. Then it gives a quote about our imagination and how we imagine the world is how the world can become. Without individuals imagining creative solutions, then change will never occur. This is something that stands out to me about social innovation. It is about looking into the world and imagining things that seem impossible and finding ways to make them real. It speaks to the passions that people have to improve the lives and situations of the people and the planet around them. 

    Social innovation is more prevalent today for two reasons. One is that there is more of a need. As society has advanced, we have created many more systems to help manage and organize our lives. While theses systems have had many benefits, there have also been numerous problems created by them. The second reason pairs well with the increase of problems and that is more people are concerned about the plight of others as well as the safety of the planet. As people care more and see more and more problems in the world, the desire to make changes increase. Individuals as well as companies are beginning to see that they have an effect on the world and are taking responsibility to make a difference.

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