The Technology Adoption S-Curve and the Assimilation Gap
By John Trigg, on April 29th, 2009 The technology adoption S-curve identifies seven phases in the adoption process: ContactAwarenessUnderstandingTrial Use/TrainingAdoptionInstitutionalisationInternalisation The assimilation gap is the gap between acquisition (the objective) and deployment (the reality). In practice, it is not uncommon to find that the first time that users have any engagement in a deployment project is when they attend a training course – we’re putting this new system in and you’re on the training course tomorrow! If this is the case, then the basic steps in the adoption process have been by-passed, and user adoption will fall short of the project goals.
Need To Solve A Tough Business Problem? Look Beyond The MBAs
This year marks the third anniversary of the Rotman Design Challenge. It started out as a commendable experiment by the school’s Business Design Club to expose MBAs at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management to the value of design methods in business problem solving. This year, the competition drew teams from a few other MBA schools and some of the best design schools in North America.
When will computer hardware match the human brain? by Hans Moravec
Journal of Evolution and Technology. 1998. Vol. 1 When will computer hardware match the human brain? (Received Dec. 1997) Hans Moravec
How visionaries see the future
By Francisco Dao On March 28, 2013 I just returned from the inaugural Dent conference where a session by Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith started me thinking about how true visionaries see the future. Smith explained that in 1979 — when he and his collaborator Ed Catmull started working with the Computer Graphics Group at Lucasfilm, which would eventually be spun out to Steve Jobs and become Pixar — the computing power required to do what they dreamed about wasn’t anywhere close to being a reality.
10 Design Thinking Principles for Strategic Business Innovation
I explained to them that "design thinking" is crucial to any innovation effort if a company wants to break out of its current competitive structure. Today's management concepts are heavily based on "optimization" and "scale economics". It means making better use of your resource and exercise your market power to gain competitive advantage. It does not really address the other side of the problem which is "size" can create a different set of problems. That's when legacys and bureaucracy hinder imagination and opportunities for growth for large organizations.
The Making-of Innovation » Towards Human-Centered Design
The consequence of taking customer orientation serious is to integrate them right at the heart of value creation – in new product design and development. The transitions in innovation management during the last years allow us exactly to that in a more resolute way. By democratizing knowledge and information the social media revolution strongly supported the dissemination of concepts such as open innovation and co-creation and at the same time transformed people from content consumers into content producers and even co-designers.
What Innovators Can Learn From Artists
By Tim Leberecht - January 2, 2013 Andy Warhol knew it all along: “Good business is the best art.” And lately, a number of business thinkers and leaders have begun to embrace the arts, not as an escapist notion, a parallel world after office hours, or a creative asset, but as an integral part of the human enterprise that ought to be woven into the fabric of every business—from the management team to operations to customer service. John Maeda, the president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and author of the book Redesigning Leadership, predicts that artists will emerge as the new business leaders and cites RISD graduates Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky, co-founders of Airbnb, as prominent examples. The author William Deresiewicz heralds reading as the most important task of any leader. John Coleman makes a compelling case for the role of poetry in business.
IDEO: Big Innovation Lives Right on the Edge of Ridiculous Ideas
Imagine for a second if you could somehow wrap up the creative chaos of a kindergartner’s life and apply it at work. You’d go on field trips, make stuff, hatch crazy ideas, and be awed by the world on a daily basis. Sound ridiculous? At the renowned international design consultancy IDEO, it’s how work gets done every day.
These Mad Scientists Want to Replace Solar Panels With Potted Plants
Designer Fabienne Felder wants to reupholster jumbo jets with moss. In her vision, passengers will sit on verdant tufts while the bryophytes purify the air and use electrons captured during photosynthesis to power the Direct TV panels on the seat backs. Many would think Felder was crazy, but biochemist Dr. Paolo Bombelli and plant scientist Ross Dennis from the University of Cambridge were impressed with her brio and offered her the opportunity to collaborate with their lab.
Four Essential Members of a Great Design Team
Four Essential Members of a Great Design Team Have you ever wondered why you can successfully collaborate with another designer in your office? Maybe you share similar ideas, but there’s also a good chance you’re nothing alike. At Kaleidoscope, some of the designers (including me) are organized and analytical. Others think freely and contextually. How can we coexist?
