Innovation in Practice

AUGUST 29, 2017

Design Thinking for the Greater Good goes in depth on both the how of using new tools and the why. As a way to reframe problems, ideate solutions, and iterate toward better answers, design thinking is already well established in the commercial world. and adjunct lecturer of design thinking at the Darden Graduate School of Business.

Design Thinking 63

Design Thinking Design Roadmap Ideation 63

Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The real problem many organizations face regarding conversion, is that content is often still considered “the stuff that goes into the design.” Putting content at center stage means changing some of the fundamental ways we think about content in the design process and how it helps conversion. Content goals are business goals.

Design 83

Design Strategy Strategy Data 83

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

As I sat down to write this review, I found the mountain climbing as a metaphor for enterprise design sticking with me. Milan Guenther’s book Intersection does an excellent job of showing us the view of enterprise design from the top of the mountain. I am reading every book that I can find on the subject.

Design 62

Design Technical Review Case Study System 62

Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 17, 2013

This is an excerpt from the upcoming Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers (Wiley, 2013) by Greg Nudelman. If you need a tutorial, I recommend a much more effective contextual Watermark pattern, which I discuss in Chapter 5 of the Android Design Patterns book.).

Software Review 108

Software Review Design Training Data 108

Tullio Siragusa

JULY 29, 2024

Design Thinking: The Smart Way to Fail, Learn, andInnovate The Cost of Learning the Hard Way Some of the greatest lessons in business dont come from textbooks or executive seminars but from real-world experimentation. The Power of Structured Experimentation Design Thinking is more than a processits a mindset shift.

Design Thinking 62

Design Thinking Design Learning Innovation 62

Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 4, 2016

As UX designers in a world with exponential advancements in sensing technology, we ought to have context at the top of our list of things to consider in any design process—especially if we are designing for a “context-fluid” experience. What if we take the idea of contextual design a few steps further? Context is KEY.

Design 104

Design System Data Technology 104

Open Innovation EU

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2013 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2013 more…. Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Focus stage: Seed Published: 2013 more…. Roadmapping.

Crowdsourcing 81

Crowdsourcing Innovation Open Innovation LEAN 81

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Let us designate the constant repeating “work done” to our new friends the robots and machines. What if we designed our future that released the human from this repetitive work? I wrote an article “ Work to be done is innovation’s invisible hand ” back in 2013.

Artificial Inteligence 194

Artificial Inteligence Data Creativity Technology 194

Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

I published the first draft of the 3 Dimensions of Innovation all the way back in 2013. These are the activities and skills which are required for a team to ideate, design, test, iterate and pilot a new innovation. The Three Pillars of what makes innovation work in any company. This is what I call the 3 Dimensions of Innovation.

Company 301

Company Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership 301

InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

Find examples of how design thinking is used to solve problems, prototype, and innovate. As more organizations and companies across the world adopt design thinking into their operations, it becomes even more obvious just how essential innovation is for continued success and growth. Netflix’s Innovative Updates.

Case Study 52

Case Study Design Thinking Study Design 52

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Then we have The ETP Clean Energy Technology Guide is an interactive framework that contains information for over 400 individual technology designs and components across the whole energy system that contribute to achieving the goal of net-zero emissions.

Technology 246

Technology Collaboration Report Innovation 246

Wazoku

MAY 23, 2017

Design thinking has become a popular topic for discussion; with industry leaders like IBM and GE embracing and embedding design thinking in their organisations, other organisations are inevitably taking note. Design thinking is first and foremost people-centred, deriving products and services to meet a genuine need.

Design Thinking 49

Design Thinking Design Innovation Innovation Processes 49

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Buttons & Threads: Applying a Modern Ecosystem Perspective In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the “buttons and threads” concept perhaps is a powerful metaphor for understanding and designing interconnected business ecosystems.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Collaboration Design Internet of things 100

Collectivecamp

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Myki, Victoria’s now three-year old public transport ticketing system has been the subject of public abuse and endless scrutiny since its roll out in 2013. This brings us to the question of human-centered design, or lack thereof, as it applies to Myki’s design and development.

Design 49

Design System 49

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It is a concept to help in the Architecture design, especially as part of its framing solution is attempting a cascading model both up and down organizations. This started my questioning of the Business model, back in 2013. Structuring the design of the innovation architecture is changing, fairly radically, in my view.

Innovation 157

Innovation Leadership Design Tools 157

IdeaScale

JUNE 9, 2021

For World Cerebral Palsy Day in 2013, he asked for a wheelchair that either had an extended range or could run indefinitely. The team won $20,000 to refine the design and ship it to an overjoyed Sirvan, with the rest going to cerebral palsy research. The Solar-Powered Wheelchair. A Better Graduated Cylinder.

Crowdsourcing 130

Crowdsourcing Exercises Project Analysis 130

Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It has been a while since Henry Mintzberg developed his influential work that made us aware of the importance of structures in organization design. Structures are no longer of primary focus in design organizations. Let me show you how the focus of organization design has changed over the years: Scholar. It enhances productivity.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Innovation Entrepreneurship Design 80

Destination Innovation

MAY 17, 2016

But Amazon had no experience or competence in electronic product design or manufacture. In 2013 it announced plans for drone deliveries. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper. Jeff Bezos realised that there was a potential customer need for an inexpensive reader for electronic books. Lessons for Innovators.

Innovation 108

Innovation Software Agile Disruption 108

Collectivecamp

JULY 25, 2019

Myki, Victoria’s now three-year old public transport ticketing system has been the subject of public abuse and endless scrutiny since its roll out in 2013. This brings us to the question of human-centered design, or lack thereof, as it applies to Myki’s design and development.

Design 40

Design System Change 40

Boxes and Arrows

MAY 21, 2013

Design tools like Twitter Bootstrap and hosting services like GitHub. HTML 5 and CSS3 with their improved capabilities especially around design and media. Responsive web design in its various approaches and permutations. For me, the highlight of the 2013 IA Summit occurred before the opening keynote.

Conference 85

Conference Big Data Design Tools 85

Boxes and Arrows

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Our different observations confirm some of the generally known design principles, such as users’ deep-rooted dislike of homogenous blocks of text. Some of the effects repeated in our 2011 and 2013 studies; some of them were also confirmed in studies on the perception of the e-mails and newsletters carried out by other teams.

Study 91

Study Tips Engagement Examples 91

Qmarkets

JUNE 9, 2021

This integration will be available through Qmarkets’ Q-open platform which is designed to allow customers to gather ideas from outside of their organization, from customers, experts, partners, and more. Register here.

Open Innovation 98

Open Innovation Crowdsourcing Innovation Software 98

Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

A typical site redesign project might include refreshing the visual design, considering the best interaction practices, and conducting usability testing. ” In the coming months, I will be exploring the what, why, and how of taxonomy planning, design, and implementation: Building the business case for taxonomy.

Project 106

Project Exercises Design System 106

Michael Roberto

MARCH 13, 2025

First, in 2013, Jost Daft and Sascha Albers published a paper titled " A conceptual framework for measuring airline business model convergence." In the long run, becoming less distinctive will make it more difficult to achieve superior profitability. Competitive advantage typically does not derive from me-too strategies.

Strategy 29

Strategy Strategy Comparison Industry 29

Stephen Shapiro

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

May 2013: In an attempt to kick start the toolkit again, I shot two dozen test videos. June 2013: I started conversations with a client who expressed interest in co-building the toolkit. During this period, I also worked with others on the title, subtitle, and cover design. Each video described a lens from the spreadsheet.

Video 98

Video Software Review Technical Review Tools 98

Destination Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2017

In 2013 Musk proposed a radical new concept for transportation, the ‘Hyperloop’ which would transport people at speeds of up to 700 mph through pods in low-pressure tubes. He has funded development of the idea and in 2015 he announced a competition for designs for a Hyperloop pod prototype.

Entrepreneurship 30

Entrepreneurship Technology Competition Innovation 30

Business and Tech

DECEMBER 16, 2021

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. We designed ResMan to complement the natural workflows of each role onsite — regional management, corporate office, and leadership team.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Technology Management Underperforming Technical Team 246

Idea to Value

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Most people still think of China as a technology copycat, stealing intellectual property and designs from western companies and producing inferior but cheaper knock-offs. In order to keep growing, they needed to establish their own brands, with their own designs and differentiators, leading to a recent move towards in-house innovation.

Innovation 100

Innovation Creativity Design Trends 100

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 11, 2015

Producers of innovation need to transition radically into a different innovation delivery & design structure. There was a report written in 2013 entitled and under, “ The New Normal: Competitive advantage in the digital economy ” written for the Big Innovation Centre, an initiative of The Work Foundation and Lancaster University.

Innovation 100

Innovation Disruption Collaboration Competition 100

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

StartX , a nonprofit startup accelerator, recently devoted an entire day to the role of design in early-stage companies. Each panelist had made their mark on how design is done in start-ups: Laura wrote the influential O’Reilly book on UX for Lean Startups, and Todd penned the bestselling Rosenfeld Media Prototyping book.

LEAN 103

LEAN Design Learning Agile 103

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 13, 2013

I recently attended UXPA 2013 in D.C. As sometime director of Design at Infragistics, I personally have had first hand experience trying to integrate UX into an existing, established Agile engineering process with large-ish teams. It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Enter the book.

Agile 80

Agile LEAN Development Team Review Software Review 80

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 18, 2020

Energy-related CO2 emissions from buildings have risen in recent years after flattening between 2013 and 2016. The IEA monitor Building envelopes Heating Heat pumps Cooling Lighting Appliances and equipment and Data centers and data transmission networks.

Innovation 195

Innovation Policies Technical Review System 195

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Then we have The ETP Clean Energy Technology Guide is an interactive framework that contains information for over 400 individual technology designs and components across the whole energy system that contribute to achieving the goal of net-zero emissions.

Technology 130

Technology Collaboration Report Innovation 130

BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2021

For example, while designing and facilitating an early Brainzooming online collaboration in 2013, a nonprofit’s leader decided to change his participant role. Moving to an anonymous, text-based online collaborative environment, though, offers multiple new, intriguing possibilities for leaders to cultivate innovation. The Expander.

Collaboration 64

Collaboration Leadership Innovation Meeting 64

Qmarkets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. Hackathons: Organizing events where external developers, designers, and innovators come together to solve specific challenges.

Open Innovation 105

Open Innovation Innovation Collaboration Technology 105

Qmarkets

JULY 13, 2017

On top of that, the session can be designed in a way that ensures anonymity enabling the participants to completely let go of their fear of judgement, no matter how hierarchically and rigid the organization is structured. 2013) Systematic Integration of Solution Elements: How Does Digital Creativity Support Change Group Dynamics?

Brainstorming 65

Brainstorming Crowdsourcing Creativity Ideation 65

Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It’s important to note that many of the resources pushed are designed to be helpful and are often welcome by communities. As the innovators on the ground design and develop their solutions, they pull in the appropriate resources needed to bring these solutions to the community. Thankfully, Nubank is not alone.

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Resources Strategy Strategy System 72