Innovator’s Dilemmas
A bull is charging us and knowing which which — if any — horn we will take will determine what
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Design, creativity, and design thinking
The Mindset, Skillset, Toolset for Innovation
What does it take to innovate? We look at the basics and what they mean for individuals and organizations looking
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Design Thinking’s Triple-B Future
Design Thinking is not only a means to innovate, but as a means to heal and grow. After a year that by most people’s standards was ugly beyond any others in recent memory, our need for beauty, sustainable and responsible businesses, supportive communities, and viable, service-forward industries needs this.
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Inspiration and the Frankenstein Design
It’s possible to design a program or service that hits every note for some and becomes a monster for others.
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Innovation With Visualization: Seeing Things Differently
Value can be created by building on other products or services. Radio Garden is drawing on other systems to pull together radio stations and providing the same content that can be found elsewhere, but it’s organizing it.
Providing alternative perspectives is value in itself. JimJamPro’s 3-D photo maps technically don’t show anything that isn’t in Google Maps, yet they provide a wholesale different perspective on all of that content, adding considerable contextual value.
Visualizing relationships is systems innovation. Visualizing a system of relationships — a radio station within a country, an apartment block within a neighbourhood — provides insight into a system, not just a product.
Design Thinking and Leadership
Inspiration is a primary outcome for design thinking and leadership is the vehicle to deliver it. In a previous post
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Design Thinking: From Cognition to Craft
Design thinking is best approached as a habit, not as an exercise. Just as ‘critical thinking’ isn’t meant to be applied sporadically to one’s life, neither is design thinking.
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Design’s Inspiration Outcome Dividend.
Design is about making things with intention, craft, and care, but above all, it must inspire. Without inspiration and excitement, there is no action.
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A Designers Approach to Decision-Making
The psychology and design of decisions are ones that we can influence whether we know it or not. Better design equals different decisions.
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Plastic Language and Its Effects
Plastic language is all about using words in meaningless ways and that creates meaningless impact, too.
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