Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

WE ARE ALL DESIGNERS! Look around you. Seriously; stop reading for a minute, and look around you. Everything you see — literally every thing — was designed by someone. The chair you’re sitting on, the clothes you are wearing, the walls and ceiling and floor, the screen and device on which you are reading these words. everything. And not only tangible things: the sites you visit, the services you use, the restaurants you frequent, notice that all of them are the result of design.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

CHANGE YOUR WORK HABITS FOR A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE How can I learn to think up wild ideas? Can I become more innovative or is it just a natural gift? Where do new ideas come from? We often get asked these sorts of questions from people searching to inject new ways of thinking into their work, hoping to find a secret formula for great ideas that will give them the leading edge.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

HOW KODAK MISSED ITS CHANCE TO LEAD THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION As you sow, so shall you reap. You’ve heard this proverb before, and you’ve undoubtedly had the experience of realizing its simple truth: the initial conditions of a process will have a dramatic impact on the outcome. To build further on the metaphor, there are parameters that farmers must consider when sowing for next year’s crops: what to sow, when to sow, and how to spread the seeds.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. Like an unwanted present re-gifted again and again, these articles are often backed by academic studies that compared some quantifiable measure, such as the number of ideas generated by different methods, and found that more ideas were produced by having people engage in something other than “brainstorming,” suc

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

12.5 million. That’s roughly the number of hits you get today on Google when you search on the term “design thinking.” Design thinking has come a long way since my days at IDEO back in the early ‘90s when the mere mention of the word “design” saw most technologists and non-designers frowning their brow with skepticism. What was design thinking before it was design thinking?

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

STIMULATE INNOVATION BY MAKING UNEXPECTED CONNECTIONS “Good artists borrow, great artist steal.” — attributed to several people, but it was probably W.H. Davenport Adams If you are pushing yourself to develop new, original ideas, trying to come up with that one thing that no one has thought of before. you might be working too hard. The ultimate innovation icon, Steve Jobs, said, "Creativity is just connecting things.

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Innovationship

JUNE 20, 2018

PARTNERING WITH UCLA ANDERSON FOR INNOVATION MENTORSHIP. A team presents its initial direction to the other participants. What could you create with four months, the full support of your company, and the mentorship of a team of innovation experts? Each year in Kuwait, the opportunity to answer this question is given to ten lucky teams by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS) — a nonprofit institution created in 1976 by the Emir of Kuwait to promote science, technology, and

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