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Designing Unique Workshops is hard work

Paul Hobcraft

It is the value of having good, interactive, highly particpative workshops breaks much of those initial barriers to allow the hard work to begin in a more cohesive and collaborative way. I believe any design of workshops must meet your needs, to push the thinking and to generate new returns in innovation understanding.

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How Design Thinking Promotes Innovation

IdeaScale

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation.

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How Design Thinking Complements Crowdsourced Innovation

IdeaScale

In this post, I’d like to talk about how design thinking complements crowdsourced innovation. Design thinking is a well-known, highly-effective and enjoyable method that encourages people to open their minds and take a different approach to problem solving. Design thinking is a six-phase process that puts people in focus.

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The “average customer” does not exist, so stop designing products for fake personas

Idea to Value

These are the people who they design their products and services for. Alternatively, many Startups, Marketing and Design Thinking Agencies also use a tool to imagine their potential average customer, usually called a Customer Avatar or Customer Persona. In the 1940s, the US had begun changing the design of its airplanes.

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5 Big Advantages of Remote Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

When bringing people together to solve problems with design thinking, there may be more benefits to going remote than you think. Face-to-face design thinking workshops can be amazing. For instance, for time and cost reasons, a face-to-face workshop generally just brings one fixed group of people together for the entire time.

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What You Need to Know Before Leading a Design Thinking Workshop

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Leading a design thinking workshop can completely transform your company for the better. According to the 71% of brands that champion design thinking, making a shift to a design-centered mindset will dramatically improve productivity and … Continue reading →

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Why Is Innovation Vital for Your Organization and What Innovation Services Are Available to Help?

IdeaScale

It helps designate innovation roles and outlines how they will fit with the innovation program. Leading Innovation Workshop. Learn about innovation roles in the Leading Innovation Workshop. Excelling at Innovation Workshop. Sign employees up for the Excelling at Innovation Workshop. Campaign design.