13 qualities Google looks for in job candidates. 151205_Open Design as a platform for social innovation.pdf.
Storytelling. Thinking Machine / FrontPage. 35 Critical Thinking Strategies - Innovatio. By Mike Myatt Critical thinking skills are not a luxury for senior executives - they're a survival skill.
In today's hi-tech business world we have become reliant on any number of available business tools to help us achieve better results and to perform at higher levels. We attend classes, workshops, webcasts, conferences etc., and we read books on how to master everything from the newest software application to the latest management theory. We seem to have an insatiable thirst for anything that will provide us with a perceived competitive advantage, yet we often ignore the one tool which can provide an unequaled return on investment if developed to even a fraction of its potential... the human mind.
In today's post I'll examine the virtually unlimited benefits of becoming a better critical thinker. Developing sound critical thinking skills are a requirement for CEOs and entrepreneurs. Paul, Binker, Jensen, and Kreklau (1990) developed a list of 35 dimensions of critical thought. Question to Refuel Finances Past Media Fears – Brain Leaders and. NBS: Design Thinking and Business. I'm collecting quotes and references here to get an overview of who's saying what about design thinking as applied to business.
The idea is still young and in development; it seems we're only now reaching the conversation stage that leads to differing points of view. I welcome suggestions for additions or corrections. —Victor Lombardi, March 2005 Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
—Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969 This role of manager as designer is hardly mentioned in the literature, and barely acknowledged in business practice. ...Managers practice "silent design"...the many decisions taken by non-designers who enter directly into the design process, no matter how unaware they or others may be of their impact.— Angela Dumas and Henry Mintzberg, Managing the Form, Function, and Fit of Design, 1991. A Metathinking Manifesto. The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. – Einstein For several years now, I’ve been studying the intersection of technology, culture and communication, the impacts of social media, the relationship between creativity, innovation and design, and the potential of various futures.
I’ve had this gnawing sensation at the edges of my mind that all these areas were held together by a common thread, but I couldn’t put my finger on the connection. My intention is that by taking this out of the incubation stage in my head and putting it into words, it will become clarified and provide some value.
First off, let me lay out a framework . My ideas are based on 3 main concepts: * Social media is fundamentally changing the human experience. * The world is increasing in complexity. * We are experiencing accelerating change. And a brief explanation of each: Social media is fundamentally changing the human experience. So what?