Beyond The Whiteboard & Sticky Notes
Design thinking is much more than its tools. It’s time to look at what it actually does and how to go beyond the tools to see its real impact.
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Design thinking is much more than its tools. It’s time to look at what it actually does and how to go beyond the tools to see its real impact.
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An agile approach to innovation is intended to be flexible and dynamic, but it can also be flaky if we’re not careful. Agile is one of those great cover words — like pivot — that allows us to hide our failings. Failure in innovation work, as I’ve written before, only comes from a failure to
Innovation can be quite the buzzword — but what does it actually mean in practice? What knowledge, skills and tools do we need to actually DO innovation? I get asked that a lot and when the world seems to be transforming before us more people are asking: how do we shape some of these forces
Innovation: The Art and Science of Change Series Read More »
How do we think about the journeys through complex situations when we are unsure of a destination? There is a saying that the journey is the destination which speaks to the value of learning by doing — praxis — and how much it means to those who seek to create things. What happens when we
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The fear of failure are reasons why our best work never sees the light of day ; gaming can make us braver. It seems absurd to imagine an organization devoting months of staff time, attention, and money to a project that has been executed perfectly only to have it never launch. Welcome to the world
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We can’t change what we don’t understand and can’t understand what we can’t make sense of. Design is the discipline of innovation. Innovation is the means of taking what we know and learn and transforming it into value. Sensemaking is what allows us to derive meaning from what we see and experience. Together, these three
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A gardener’s mindframe is what distinguishes a true innovator from the rest. We look at four qualities which show how.
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The way we design our spaces and think about them shape what happens in them. We look at four ideas for how to innovate better in space.
Space, Place, & Creativity Read More »
Strategy in chaos is like whitewater rafting — it needs stillness among the motion. Sometimes the best transformation and boldest action is doing nothing.
Doing Nothing: An Innovation Paradox Read More »
What if the best way to accomplish a goal was to not have one or to keep it changing? That’s innovation. If you tightly define what you want, and succeed, all you get is exactly what you expected. You are limited by your own goal. – Robert Poynton I was recently speaking with one of my
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