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We recently had a learning zone workshop with a group of kids in our office. They were in two separate groups of 3-5 and 6-8yrs, each group with unique exercises to complete. Not to mention how exhausting it was running after the younger ones, I also realized how much more imaginative they are comparing to the older group. They [...] Read more...
Ask a person what an Innovation Strategist does and they usually give you blank stares or buzz words. So who are you and what would you say you do here? Here's a quick list of responsibilities from the inside of an innovation firm. Read more...
“The Greatest thing by far,” Aristotle declared, “is to be a master of metaphor…. It is a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.” IARPA, the US governmental arm for intelligence research (sometimes described as ‘DARPA for spies’) announced The Metaphor Program, with an open solicitation [...] Read more...
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan believed every unsuccessful act to be successful as discourse. Mistakes are reference points. They re-calibrate our assumptions and reorient our course of action. The culture that doesn’t identify and contemplate its mistakes is condemned to repeat them. Applied Design Thinking practices help manage risks and avoid critical failures. But it’s [...] Read more...
Conditions are ripe for collaborative design to take place in creating solutions beyond Industrial Design programs and outside of traditional R&D centers of Automotive OEMs. Read more...
For Idea Couture, Social Innovation means using social impact as a business strategy. It's about creating real, tangible value for organizations through tackling social problems. It's hard to read that and not feel a little more optimistic about the future of business. Read more...
You might think that the biggest challenge in any new project is doing the work itself, but that’s actually not the case. The biggest hurdle we face when we kick-off a project is usually trust. Our fuzzy front-end innovation process means that right from the get-go, we need to win our clients’ trust to guide [...] Read more...
I'm not trying to discount the capabilities of industrial designers, researchers, or architects who've found their way into the innovation space, but the qualities of digital innovators put them in a unique position to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Read more...
Please, stop calling your company "innovative". Innovation is about your organizations culture, not what you say in commercials or your annual report. Read more...
Innovation and Design Thinking are inherently linked. A night on Quora led me to try and make a tangible connection between the two. Read more...
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