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Business Models, Featured Articles, Featured Explorations, Social Change, Uncategorized
Social enterprises exist, and strive, to become a new form of organization to effectively solve some of the most pressing challenges within our society. There is a wide, and probably growing, gap between the scale of the problems we face and the scale of the solutions on offer. Creative ways for advancing...
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CNN versus Al JaZeera: Lets begin with a short comparison of the customer experience of two mainstream news networks offering free video content online. One an incumbent in the N.A. market the other an interloper of sorts. When I want to glance at the mainstream news from south of the border I click...
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The Internet / Digital Age has introduced an overwhelming amount of free content for “customers” to access and experience online. Presented with an unprecedented amount of choices, most customers gravitate towards familiar and trusted broadcasting sources like CNN, AOL, NBC or MTV as part of their...
Art and Culture, Featured Articles, Industrial Design, Uncategorized
Since the falling of the walls, Berlin has been a site of ongoing experimentation. Old factory buildings, inhabited by artists and designers, transforming into studios and galleries. While I haven’t been for myself yet, I can tell you, based on hard anecdotal evidence, there is a consensus among young...
Art and Culture, Featured Articles, Strategic Innovation, Uncategorized
“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...
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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...
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The phenomenon of cheaper, faster, better (better in terms of having more options) is more a result of global economics than it is a corporate mandate. If you think about Bauhaus (the origins of Industrial Design) and how it was intended to provide a social service of making houses and household product...
Experience Design, Featured Articles, Service Design, Social Media, Uncategorized
48 hours. 1,236 service designers. 60 locations. 203 service design concepts. Mix these all up and what do you get? An global event demonstrating what immense creativity, collaboration, innovation, and an aggressive time crunch can produce — Global Service Jam 2011! Participants from San Paulo,...
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There are 365 days in the year and our travel luggage spends most of that time buried away in the closet. When luggage is not being used, it takes away valuable space, and adds to the frustration of clutter creating awkward surfaces that are difficult integrate with other items. After 100 years in...
Featured Articles, Industrial Design, Transportation Desgin, Uncategorized
Hyundai and Kia have made immense gains in the past decade by re-invigorating their brand with truly unique designs and exciting offerings with their products such as the sporty Rear-wheel drive Hyundai Genesis coupe and Sedan, and attractive yet affordable Front wheel drive Kia Forte, Soul and Sorento. Consumers...
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