Visual Thinking in Cross Cultural Communication

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Thinking visually in the cross-cultural communication flow is the best way to adapt to the 21st century communication flow. People are collaborating and coworking in decentralized environments. Often visual thinking supports ideation and design thinking beyond the language.

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Visual Thinking

Cross Cultural Communication

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

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IMCD

In today’s cross-cultural communication the medium is part of the message

conveying billions of visualized messages to billions of people/sec.

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Visual communication is crossing borders & languages.

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France Business School. 2013/14

It’s part of our reality and becomes also augmented reality.

may create instant empathy.

It’s interaction: Inside-outside. Think & Design.

For yourself

For the others

Therefore think & define the messages visually.

That’s how you optimize their reception

beyond languages & cultural divide.

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.IMCD FBS 2013

Visual thinking… includes all these new facts!

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

Visualized thinking & communicating is part of the global communication flow.

Miss Ugly 2013

. Confess, you didn’t see it!

vizualisation captures the attention

Visualization facilitates coordination,

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

clarifies facts better than 1000 words,

illustrates complicated processes,

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facilitates overlook & interaction,

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

helps understanding.

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Business School. 2013/14

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Business School. 2013/14

But also conceals a very inconvenient truth:

Images are powerful manipulators.

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Business School. 2013/14

Advertiser’s Create Powerful Images To Hijack Your Mind And Fly it To Their Destination

Overload creates nothing but confusion.

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Colors are cultural-bound

only united for advertising.

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Business School. 2013/14

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

Europe India

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Business School. 2013/14

Western culture Indian culture

Symbols are not universally shared.

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Business School. 2013/14

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

Humour isn’t funny for everybody.

Cross cultural visualization respects also the 3 rules: 1. Keep it short & simple 2. The rules of third 3. The cross-cultural awareness

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Business School. 2013/14

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

Think & organize your visualized intention.

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Business School. 2013/14

The rule of thirds visualized:

And in your own cross-cultural workflow?

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Business School. 2013/14

Classify Your Visualization Radius: ① Realistic ② Sketch notes ③ Diagrams ④ Knowledge Maps ⑤ Visual Metaphors ⑥  Interactive Visualization

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Business School. 2013/14

Realistic

Photos Videos Illustrations

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Business School. 2013/14

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2013/14

Visualize your thinking

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Business School. 2013/14

in Sketch Notes

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Business School. 2013/14

Define… even if you aren’t a designer…

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Business School. 2013/14

Get your point across.

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Business School. 2013/14

…all you need is design thinking.

u Codes u Colors u Symbols u Shapes

u Visual Intelligence u Cross Cultural Awareness u Visual Literacy

u Technics & Tools of digital publishing ü  Photos, videos, ü  Infograph, charts & graphs, ü  Cartoon ü  Infographs

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Business School. 2013/14

beyond language

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

Visual Thinking enables you to

§  pitch your ideas convincingly §  get your point across §  capture your audience’s attention §  bring your ideas to life

Beside cross cultural awareness you need

q  Technicalities q  Tools q  Test the Best Open Source…

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2013/14

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14

Dr. Angelica Laurençon.c2c. Intercultural Management Cross Culture Diversity. France

Business School. 2013/14