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Podcast S6E132: David Schonthal – The frictions which prevent innovation adoption

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with David Schonthal, a Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He is also the author of the new book The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas with his co-author Loran Nordgren.

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Forget “yes but”, use “yes and” instead. 3 key lessons for (social) entrepreneurship

Board of Innovation

Let me start by introducing myself: I’m Anneleen, Design Thinking Lead at Board of Innovation. Throughout my professional career, I have repeatedly been asked: Isn’t Design Thinking just common sense? What is it that makes Design Thinking so different from other innovation approaches? Together with.

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Revolutionize Your Innovation: Embrace the Power of Lean Startup Methodology

Leapfrogging

It draws inspiration from lean manufacturing principles and applies them to the context of entrepreneurship and product development. Here’s how you can combine these approaches: Design Thinking : Begin with empathy. Use design thinking to truly understand your customers’ needs and experiences.

LEAN 100
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Clarifying Design in Business Sciences: a Design Thinking Taxonomy

Open Innovation EU

The book is a one-of-a-kind taking a much needed reflective approach to leadership and a critical note towards the level of professionalism that many of us are approaching the science of management and entrepreneurship with. But that is, as this book describes perfectly, not the case at all: design thinking simply equals business science.

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Drive Disruption with Design THINKING

Fehmida Kapadia

An hour into the activity, we take a short break to discuss what we are working on and the following conversation ensues “I am writing about design thinking” “Oh! Are you a designer?” “No, No, I am not a designer and that is exactly what I am writing about. Design thinking has become a buzzword today.

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The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures

Open Innovation EU

Roca wrote a pretty good article about that a while ago: from the sandbox to the hive ( Model for Organization Design, Roca ). Many popular tools are based on this process view on organization design. Think about The Lean Start-Up (Ries), Agile, Business Model Generation (Osterwalder) and Customer Development (Steve Blank).

LEAN 75
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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking. Krueger, 2007).