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This Macbook charger shows how technology has grown exponentially

Idea to Value

In a brilliant component teardown article from 2015 by Ken Shirriff , he opened up the Magsafe charger which powered Apple’s laptop at the time. If you were to open up an Apple MacBook’s power charger, inside you will find a microchip which is faster than the CPU powering the entire first Apple Mac computer.

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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

My three areas of focus — strategy, innovation, and lean — are all founded on the ground-level, everyday application of Roger Martin’s Play-to-Win framework (strategy), IDEO/Stanford d school-originated design thinking (innovation), and Toyota-born systems thinking (lean). Designer, The Play-To-Win Canvas.

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Design Thinking & Human-Centered Design Examples in Healthcare

InnovationTraining.org

Explore examples of how design thinking and human-centered design has led to innovation in healthcare. Healthcare is one industry among many that can benefit from innovative thinking and human-centered design principles. Applying Design Thinking to Schizophrenia Care. Using Design to Create Better Healthcare Spaces.

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Sometimes, flat hierarchies can hurt innovation in Start-ups

Idea to Value

Prof Lee discussed the reasons he found in a Podcast interview on SiriusXM: “Although many entrepreneurs dislike the notion of hierarchical structure and managers, they ultimately do need managers, and do need to plan ahead and design the appropriate hierarchical structure way earlier than they think,”.

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

Saasha Celestial-One and Tessa Clarke founded the food waste company, OLIO in 2015. The system is designed for children aged 6 to 18 and is based on gamification ideas. In 2015 she founded DnaNudge a company which helps people make healthy choices based on their own unique DNA profile.

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And the Winner Is… Announcing 2020 Innovation Management Awards

IdeaScale

Since 2015, the Innovation Management Awards, presented by IdeaScale, have sought out the best innovation strategists, designers, and approaches. 2020’s field was a tough one to narrow down, as innovation management has spread from the smallest businesses to the biggest conglomerates.

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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

org is a non-profit group founded at Harvard University whose mission is to use the power of behavioral science to design scalable solutions to some of society’s most difficult problems. In 2015 the World Bank established a group to help developing countries use nudge policies.