Meta Innovation Lab
We empower leaders and organizations to discover, explore and experiment new ideas.
“Approaching problem solving with a hands-on, user-centric mindset leads to innovation, and innovation can lead to differentiation and a competitive advantage.”
Sarah Gibbons, Chief Designer of Nielsen Norman Group
Why Does It Matter
Efficient innovation.
We believe in using design-thinking methodology to solve problems. We can utilize one week of your busy schedule to explore and test your crazy idea before you put tons of investment on it.
Needs-based
Solutions
Lower
Risk & Cost of Change
Increased
Collaboration
“Change can be hard and uncomfortable. But when it’s done with intention, it can be a beautiful force.”
Bryan Walker, Partner & Managing Director of IDEO San Fransisco
“The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing – building empathy for the people that you’re entrusted to help.”
David Kelley, Founder of IDEO
Our Team
Our team is a mixture of people with business, psychology and social innovation background.
Merriska is passionate about designing business & innovation with impact. Her working experience is all about social innovation & entrepreneurship, management consultant and brand management. She led innovation & research projects for International Government Agencies, FMCG, Corporates and NGOs. She also actively supports the entrepreneurship ecosystem by contributing in 20+ workshops and events as a mentor, speaker, facilitator, and judge both in international and entrepreneurship programs. To date, she has provided 30+ consultation to startup and social enterprises in various sectors, such as sustainable fashion, education, and food and agriculture.
In 2016, she was selected as one of the fellows in Global Social Impact House by the University of Pennsylvania, when the workshop was facilitated by the IDEO Team. From that moment she believes that design thinking can create a positive change to the world.
Stalk her here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/augustinemerriska/
Solita has over 6 years of experience in social enterprise, consulting, tech and education. She believes that design-thinking could accelerate innovation and transfer right impact to the business as well as to the community. She had applied design-thinking approach in every role she took including customer research, human-centered interaction design, and marketing product strategy across industries.
She received bachelor degree in Psychology and Master in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Management from Imperial College Business School, London. She dreams for delivering impact for children and education in Indonesia.
Stalk her here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/solita-tiolina/
Astrid believes everyone needs entrepreneurship spirit as that is the mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation and continuous improvement, which highly needed attitude whether you are business owner or employee. With her 20+ years experience in FMCGs and entrepreneur world, she developed well rounded skills to ensure sustainable business across different industries.
She works across countries and fields, from Indonesia to Singapore to South Korea, from FMCG to prestige business to F&B, creating brand and consumer experience to build sustainable business with entrepreneurship
at heart.
Stalk her here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/astrid-wiliandry-b186404/
“It’s not ‘us versus them’ or even ‘us on behalf of them.’ For a design thinker it has to be ‘us with them'.”
Tim Brown, CEO and President of IDEO
Our Previous Projects
Introduction to Design Thinking for GnB Accelerator Program
We shared a brief simulation of design thinking process for around 10 South Korean Startups for Daego Program, a collaboration program between GnB Accelerator and CoHive. During this three-hours session, we invited a tsunami survivors as a case simulation so the participants can practice their empathy to ideate and solve the challenge about how do we accelerate the rescue timing and process after the tsunami.
Design Thinking for Greater Good - Instellar
We shared about how to apply Design Thinking for businesses that also aim to create social impact through the business model. In this two-days workshop, the businesses that part of Instellar incubation learn how to define and refine the problem, ideate the possibility of product or business innovation, and also prototype then iterate the problem.
Theory of Change for Social Innovation Acceleration Program
We shared about Theory of Change for Social Innovation Acceleration Program Batch 4.0 incubatees, that involves social entrepreneurs from various background such as education, media, and sustainable food. This interactive 3-hours workshop sparked discussion among the participant to understand about the impact that they want to create from their business ideas and do sanity check whether their activities has aligned with their vision.
“We spend a lot time designing the bridge, but not enough time thinking about the people who are crossing it.”
Dr. Prabhjot Singh, Director of Systems Design at the Earth Institute
How we define our Innovation Lab:
Collaboration in a Safe Space
We believe that complex problems are best solved collaboratively, therefore we are striving to keep the magic of working together to change minds, touch hearts, and moves the market.
Change
Minds
Touch
Hearts
Move
Markets
So, how might we help you to innovate beyond?
Let's talk!