Improving Our Innovation Definitions
It’s remarkable how a term can grow and change over time and that is no less true for the term
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Drips and Drops in Strategic Innovation
Strategic innovation is not immune to the same trends in consumption and use as we see in products and services.
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Light or Darker? The Age of Complexity
Five years ago we were on the cusp of the Trump presidency, experienced the recent Brexit vote, and what felt
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Resetting our Habits: A Design Challenge
Business thrives on habits formed by customers, but what happens when those habits change? That’s what Roger Martin speaks to
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Innovation and Maintenance: A Book Review
Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell are leading voices in arguing for a bigger place for maintaining things in this world
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Collective Sensemaking’s Ridiculous End
Sensemaking is having its day – but how much of that is a good thing? In this post I ask whether
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Climate Changes
Our future depends on our ability to change how we see ourselves and the world and act on it —
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What is Sensemaking? Part 2: Practice
Sensemaking practice is social, interactive, and focused on strategies to work through what we think, know, and imagine. In our
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Simplifying Design
The gap between design theory and practice can be bridged by getting back to the principle of making it accessible.
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Design For Human Time
Time moves at the speed we perceive it and that affects how we design for how we experience it. If
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