(un)structuring your thinking to have better ideas – while following some easy rules …. Yet, Thorsten is right too – Twitter is a creativity room that flourishes when allowing for serendipidity, swiftness and “rapid idea wrangling”
Via Johannes, but I’ve seen this elsewhere too … Continuum explains how design strategists work: “Where do new ideas come from? This film is about design strategists and how they identify the right ideas. It was produced by the global innovation consultancy Continuum.”
While TED was going on in California, some good videos from past years are getting published, like this one: Great design is a never-ending journey of discovery — for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer-turned-designer David Carson walks through a gorgeous (and often quite funny) slide deck of […]
Time again for a design-thinking post – got triggered by the Küchenradio: Simon Blake arbeitet an der D-School am privat finanzierten Hasso-Plattner-Institut der Uni Potsdam. Das “Design Thinking” will für große Probleme schnell praktische Lösungen finden. Wie das geht und was bisher gelöst wurde […] Here’s the mp3 (yes, german language). Then via Michael Altendorf […]
Via Philipp I learned of this video interview at CNN with Bret Taylor on his “present at Friendfeed and his past at Google” (Ex-Google Employee on Scaling an Organization): As Google gets bigger, innovation becomes harder and more costly, says former engineer. Philipp has made a transcript of the interview, I marked up some of […]
Next up in my little series on inovation, Mike Neiss hits the nail on the head too, citing from a Center for Creative Leadership survey and report (pdf) that holds: “Senior executives face increasingly complex challenges that involve organizational changes, market dynamics and talent shortages. One popular response to increasing complexity is to lean on […]
As I am checking my backlog of posts I wanted to write in relation to the Davos forum (“World Economic Forum’s annual meeting“) I found this post of mine on a Technology Review article, noting an interesting comment by Sheldon Buckler on the importance of permanent (business model) innovation and board level support: “Corporate Fountain […]
