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March
While looking into system design, I just stumbled across a very interesting definition of ideal design method by Ackoff (1996) which reminded me of a quite often cited definition of design thinking by Tim Brown: “An idealized design of a system is the design its stakeholders would have right now if they could have any system they wanted. [...]
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August
I was wondering how I should describe innovations that deal with challenges of conflicting parties on an governmental, national or even international level a couple of weeks ago. Thinking of a common nominator I ended up thinking about societies. Although it might be kind ob obvious I’m still kind of unsure if this really nails it or if [...]
5
July
If there is one paper I would recommend to every teacher, coach and student on who wonders about team leadership or the learning process in design thinking it would be the paper ”Innovation as a learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking” by Sarah Backman and Michael Barry. The paper not only introduces the design thinking, but connects it to [...]
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April
While I was reading Tims Brown’s “definition” of design thinking for the x-time now, I actually never checked his reference to Peter Drucker. Drucker is, according to wikipedia the “best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management theory and practice”. True or not, I was quite curious about what he [...]
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April
I stumbled upon the reference to this video just yesterday and immediately had to check if there is a version online. Although it seems as it has been cut, concerning the date (1972) it could be considered quite visionary. This makes one wonder if we have learned anything new in the last (almost 40) years. [...]
10
March
Design’s Role in Innovation from Design Council on Vimeo. It’s interesting what people say, that design is. Seems like it’s everything and therefore maybe nothing at the same time. And its also interesting that a lot of people put design = innovation. Maybe design is the process or craft of innovation, who knows.
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February
Just came accords this identically named article on fastcodesign. Wondering why somebody writes User-Led Innovation since I always thought it’s user centered innovation. Therefor finding unmet opportunities by understanding and observing (future) users, not by ask the users what they want. Who does that anyway? Of course a user can’t predict the future, and even [...]
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February
This is the first publication, I’m aware of, that tries to address the operative nature of design methodology in management practices. A bit supprised by the monodisciplinary approach, (previous publications of other authors have favored mostly multi.- or transdisciplinary approaches) “Designing for Growth: a design thinking tool kit for managers” by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim [...]
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February
How to test, sell and market new products. Signs on beach on East Falkland warning of the dangers of unexploded mines and mine fields. Falkland Islands. ©Toby Adamson/Axiom Companies as well as Entrepreneurs nowadays take a substantial risk, not only from a financial but also from a “innovation race” game perspective when developing new products. [...]
10
November
Although the product itself is quite nice, the story of how they developed their business so far is much more interesting. An great example of how small products can be developed and a great showcase of how accessible production methods are at the moment. Even financing seems simple when people believe in your ideas. Although [...]