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Four Years of the Fail Expo and Our Future Projects
Author
Sun Phil Kwon
Date
2022-04-13 15:56:35
Korea will see a new administration come to power in May. The Center for Ambitious Failure (CAF) asked experts in R&D, entrepreneurship, management, and public policy about why it is important to reexamine failures in their respective fields and how we can make policy changes to ensure that our failures become a valuable asset for building a better future. This is a column written by Professor Sun Phil Kwon of Mokwon University's division of Public Affairs. He analyzes the Fail Expo's achievements and limitations as a government program and then proposes a future initiative for implementing social learning processes for failure.
"It is imperative that we continuously improve upon the Fail Expo as a government policy. The process of implementing a social learning approach to failure and building a culture where failure is considered an asset should also apply to the perspective of ‘the Fail Expo as a policy.’ There are several reasons as to why the Fail Expo has not managed to reach its full potential: 1) we lack a proper understanding of the perception of failure in our culture, 2) the analysis structures and tools that provide us with a comprehensive understanding of failure are lacking, and 3) there is a lack of cooperation between the various players involved in the process of overcoming failure. In addition to these macroscopic limitations, a more fundamental issue lies in how we segment the process of solving problems related to failure. I believe that a key element of solving the complexity of failure concerns how we set the granularity when it comes to failure phenomenon."
"It is imperative that we continuously improve upon the Fail Expo as a government policy. The process of implementing a social learning approach to failure and building a culture where failure is considered an asset should also apply to the perspective of ‘the Fail Expo as a policy.’ There are several reasons as to why the Fail Expo has not managed to reach its full potential: 1) we lack a proper understanding of the perception of failure in our culture, 2) the analysis structures and tools that provide us with a comprehensive understanding of failure are lacking, and 3) there is a lack of cooperation between the various players involved in the process of overcoming failure. In addition to these macroscopic limitations, a more fundamental issue lies in how we segment the process of solving problems related to failure. I believe that a key element of solving the complexity of failure concerns how we set the granularity when it comes to failure phenomenon."
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