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The Power of Design Thinking and How to Use It To Develop Innovative Products
Design thinking is a design approach that encourages people from different departments and with different responsibilities to work together collaboratively to address a business challenge. This approach is becoming more and more…
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chaos is human – order is machine
Is it possible that we have yet to see breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence – or AGI – because machines are the epitome of order and humans are the epitome of chaos,…
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Break Out Of Your Bubble
Now, more than ever (BTW, don’t you hate that phrase too), we live constrained within our own little realities. Our own little bubbles. Sometimes we build these realities on our own, and…
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a tale of two lists
To prepare for some of our design thinking ideation sessions, we spend time interviewing and observing our typical customer. Now, this is difficult for me sometimes because I am such a compulsive…
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Why I Bought a Cybertruck: Its Strange, Weird & Different (Like Me)
I have a real problem with electric cars – I keep wondering how the electricity was generated. What if the power was produced in a coal-fired plant? If it wasn’t cleanly produced,…
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does customer-centric design thinking impede innovation?
I think it was Steve Jobs who famously stated something to the effect that customers didn’t know what they wanted, so he had to come up with it for them. Interestingly enough,…
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3 Reasons You Are Not Innovating.
In a survey of CFOs completed by Robert Half last fall, the main reasons why innovation is floundering comes down to three main points: Bureaucracy By this, we mean the long and…
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Ways We Innovate: Be Incongruent
To Innovate, You Must Do Something Different. It’s Harder Than It Sounds. Just read (actually listened to) Smarter Faster Better, the latest book by Charles Duhigg, the author of the Power Of Habit (also…
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Urban Housing Crisis? Let Tiny Houses Run Free
The Solution to the High Cost Of Housing Are Modular Tiny Houses…But Will They Be Allowed? Here in the San Francisco Bay area, (and likely in many other urban areas) the cost of…
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You Choose: Creativity or Commodity?
Creativity Is Your Choice “Creative” has become a “buzzword” according to LinkedIn. Since Creativity is my area of expertise, this was of great interest to me. In response to the LinkedIn’s finding,…
