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. 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 Today's markets are increasingly unstable and unpredictable.
18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently This list has been expanded into the new book, “Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind,” by Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman. Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process. Neuroscience paints a complicated picture of creativity. And psychologically speaking, creative personality types are difficult to pin down, largely because they’re complex, paradoxical and tend to avoid habit or routine. While there’s no “typical” creative type, there are some tell-tale characteristics and behaviors of highly creative people. They daydream. According to Kaufman and psychologist Rebecca L. They observe everything.
TRIZ Enlivened Learning Atención para todos aquellos que hablan en español!: Si quiere ver el video de la campaña con subtítulos en español haga click aquí: La explicación del proyecto en español se encuentra bien abajo. Para a versão em Português do filme veja: HELP us to finish our Enlivened Learning documentary... Join our growing network and gift culture exchange! Enlivened Learning is a journey through the silent revolution happening in higher education – unseen, for the most part, in the media. Innovative and inspiring spaces of learning are emerging outside conventional universities and colleges as higher education institutions become increasingly profit-driven and bureaucratic. In this film we see how higher education is being re-imagined, by many social and ecological movements and indigenous communities around the world. This is a time when we all face multiple crises that we believe are first and foremost an educational challenge. Who are we?
Pro Materia > Services Established in 1999, Pro Materia creates an efficient framework around contemporary design projects in order to support designers and companies reaching their goals and to promote them with a long term vision. Its aim is that more design projects start gaining depth and relevancy. The one and only ingredient is in fact to add a human and creative value to the process behind products and services. Added to Pro Materia, Rouge Design is its brand new activity, positioning itself more than a creative platform that offers – thanks to its Pro Materia experience - its design expertise to Belgian and foreign companies. Service 1. Stay up-to-date and open new creative gateways Pro Materia can offer a selection of publications, media contacts, reports on events, research on specific fields… The agency is looking a step forward and does not want to follow mainstreams but to create new innovative and creative gateways. Service 2. Talk to the right people Service 3. Communicate effectively Service 4.
Plot Structure - A Cheatsheet to Popular Plot Formulas... The One Page Novel online course is now open! How to Use Plot Formulas Plotting If you’re a new writer, a plot structure or plot formula is your shortcut to writing a great story. Help you get an overview of your story.Help you figure out where to begin and end your story.Help you decide what happens next.Help you keep on track, know where you are, and how far you still have to go.Help you find and fix weak points in your story.Speed up the processes of plotting, writing, and editing. Many writers, especially prolific writers of genre fiction, use plot formulas, and I think even those who don’t profess to pre-planning, possess an innate sense of how to structure a story so that it’s effective and powerful. If you’re a new writer, or a writer who’s struggling to complete a writing project, then studying plot structure can help you gain mastery over your storytelling. Why I ♥ plot structure & plot formulas: What is plot structure? I’m using the terms plot structure and plot formula synonymously.
From great to excellent / National Standards Transcript The great news is we’ve got a high performing system. We’ve got a great system, not an excellent system yet. Now, there’s a challenge in there, of course, too - because when we compare ourselves with the other high performing countries we have got the longest tail of underachievement and the kinds of children who are in that tail of underachievement pose some problems for us as well. Eric Von Hippel's Homepage Four Basic Lectures These videos are posted on YouTube by MIT OpenCourseWare. You are free to use and download them as you like under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. I hope you find them useful. Lead User Teaching Materials Lead User Project Handbook This practical how-to-do-it handbook was developed to teach company teams how to do lead user projects during our research at 3M and elsewhere. Lead User Project Handbook (CC BY License) Lead User Project Videos The videos below can be used in conjunction with the Lead User Project Handbook. To view the videos, simply click on its title below and you will be taken to the video on YouTube.
Innovation is Not Creativity My colleague Chris Trimble and I have polled hundreds of managers, asking them to define innovation. Usually, managers equate innovation with creativity. But innovation is not creativity. We like to think of an organization’s capacity for innovation as creativity multiplied by execution. Chris and I have devoted the last ten years studying one question: What are the best practices for executing an innovation initiative? Here’s why we worked on execution, as opposed to creativity: We surveyed thousands of executives in Fortune 500 companies to rate their companies’ innovation skills on a scale of one to 10, one being poor and 10 world class. So which is more effective — moving your (already good) creativity score from six to eight or lifting your (very poor) execution score from one to three? Capacity to innovate = 6 x 1 = 6 Capacity to innovate, increasing creativity score = 8 x 1 = 8 Capacity to innovate, increasing execution score = 6 x 3 = 18 It’s no contest.
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