LEGO Serious Play - Theory
LEGO® Serious Play™ (LSP) is a
3-dimensional, visual, tactile, verbal method
3-Dimensional
Visual
Tactile
Verbal
- enables a detailed organisational analysis
- Based on Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget’s research:
- playing, learning, working are three facets of the same activity!
- The concept developed over several years by LEGO Executive Discovery + 2 IMD professors
What is LSP
when you can’t put something
into words, you can build it
LEGO Serious Play - Implementation

Top 300 project leaders were able to better understand landscape for bringing new drugs to market – complexity, new players, new connections
It became easy to describe complex relationships in a complex process,enabling rich dialogue respecting the views and values of each team member
Dr. Niggi Iberg, People & Communication, Roche Pharma Research

Orange UK's Department of Strategy,Futurology, and Imagineering devised strategies that address the ‘emotional aspects’ of human beings
The LEGO Serious Play methodology is being used as part of Customer Experience Designer training to broaden Product Designers’ understanding of eco-system architecture
Construction
Metaphors
Storytelling
Imagination

