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Articles, Social Change, Strategic Innovation

Optimism from Social Innovation

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 7:24 am on April 11, 2011

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.

Articles, Experience Design, Industrial Design, Service Design, Social Media, Strategic Innovation, Technology

Digital people are the world’s best innovators

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 7:17 am on March 18, 2011

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.

Articles, Business Models, Organizational Design, Strategic Innovation

Stop lying. You hate innovation.

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 7:30 am on March 15, 2011

Please, stop calling your company “innovative”. Innovation is about your organizations culture, not what you say in commercials or your annual report.

Articles, Ethnography, Experience Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation

The relationship between Design Thinking & Innovation

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 9:06 am on March 3, 2011

Innovation and Design Thinking are inherently linked. A night on Quora led me to try and make a tangible connection between the two.

IDIOMS AND INSIGHTS

Posted by: Morgan Gerard, at 8:18 am on September 26, 2010