Children’s R&D manager
The profession appears before 2020
Specialist who organizes children’s creative activities to invent new children’s products, and adapts their ideas for mass production.Sometimes, children manage to invent with more interesting designer solutions than a team of adult professionals.For example, in 2007, the entrepreneurial artist Wendy Tsao from Vancouver started making stuffed animals based on her four year old son’s drawings.The hobby turned profitable, and she opened her own business called Child’s Own Studio.Now parents from different countries order Wendy’s plush toys based on their children’s pictures.The famous artist Damien Hurst admitted in 2014 to have used his own childhood ideas in his art.
Trends
Professional skills and abilities
Systems thinking (ability to define and work with complex systems, including system engineering).
Cross-industry communication skills (understanding of technologies, processes, and market conditions in different related and unrelated sectors).
Ability to manage projects and processes.
Client focus, ability to address customer requests.
Ability to work with teams, groups and individuals.
Creative abilities, developed aesthetic taste.