September 2009
35 posts
Seven Secrets to Good Brainstorming | Fast Company →
An immersion in innovation culture: Deep dive... →
BLDGBLOG →
A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by... →
MBA Program In Design Strategy | California... →
The Spectrum of Collaboration in Organizations -...
http://www.innovationlabs.com/collaborative_spectrum.pdf
“The simplest lesson to take away is that attention to the design of a collaborative process ought to be in proportion to the novelty of the desired outcome and the level of freedom that the collaborators have in pursuing their work. Operations-type work ought to have more specifications and fewer freedom than design and strategy-type...
A Better World By Design
The world’s a cool place when people like this are trying to get things done. http://abetterworldbydesign.com/speakers.php
I could be a cynic - but I absolutely, categorically refuse to be when design is applied in this context. Ever.
Vinton Cerf visits Dave's vinyard...
How funny is this?
Vinton Cerf came to New Zealand this week as a keynote speaker for an InternetNZ conference. He’s into wine, so went to the Escarpment vinyard, where my mate Dave Shepherd is manager - he’s a self confessed luddite about computers and the internet (he never really uses either) who would much rather be hunting or talking about real stuff - wine/cycling/dogs - than...
WatchWent to the All Blacks vs Australia game this weekend with my friend Doug from the UK… rather than uploading the whole game, thought the haka would suffice.
All blacks kicked Aussie @rse.
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Six Sigma and Design Thinking →
Sara Beckman of the Haas Business School has written a great article in the New York Times about Six Sigma and design thinking called Welcoming the New, Improving the Old. She talks…
Am I missing something?
Statement: “I propose we provide healthcare to citizens of our country who can’t afford it. No citizen should be denied the right to healthcare because they are poor”.
Response: “I don’t think that’s a good idea. People who are ill and have no money don’t deserve health. The approach we use that measures the value of our people by how much money they have...
Man, watching crap like this gets harder...
http://www.thebankchannel.com/2009/08/chase-jack-to-anz-branch.html
Superficial, meaningless, no demonstration of why it’s better. No new methods, approaches or insights into the service experience. No improved internal process, no joining-up of anything worthwhile.
Just more flashy advertising… and yes, it will get called innovative when it wins an advertising award.
Systems Thinking: A Product Is More Than the... →
designerthinker - you put the point across well… nice one.
Think it’s easy for designers of all kinds to forget that their products are just one element in a service experience. Even easier for product managers and sales people to do the same - in part because the value chain/system that’s used to create these products doesn’t address the experience as an integrated whole...
Thinking about running a Barcamp in Wellington...
Is ‘Banking Innovation’ too narrow a subject in a small market like ours? Might be nice to meet some smart people… but will we be too guarded?
Perhaps we should run it on ‘Innovation’ as a whole… That way we can get some cross-pollination of ideas, build a little trust and learn the rules of the game?
do_matic. Insightful.
http://www.ryanjacoby.com/2009/05/leading-innovation.html
“Leading Innovation: In Seven Words
Many people must confront what it means to lead innovation without having done it. If you find yourself in that situation, follow the advice of Bob Sutton and spend as much time as you can understanding the nature of the work.
Beyond that, you can go a long way towards becoming a leader of...
Veneers and systems...
Customers see the ‘shiny’ elements of a service experience, and believe it. Once it becomes reality to the consumer, it becomes our responsibility to improve the ‘management system’ - to optimise the ‘machine’ over time.
But then, where does ‘build it once, integrate it heavily, do it right. Make it robust… develop it as part of a...
Excellent Tumblog - watch it grow... →
Great example of dev work too, for all those interwebbers out there.
http://irrland.sonntagskunst.de/
WatchYes we’ve seen it, but it’s still good…
Livescribe...
Funny… just read a blog post on Google Reader about the guys who were in the stand next to us at DEMO - the ‘Livescribe’ pen. They built a gadget that got everyone talking… and it’s now being pitched as tool to help conduct innovation workshops - a product innovation to facilitate innovation :) http://tiny.cc/JmdsW
Thinking about...
- Tasks, processes, models required to make an organisation more innovative
- How they come together to become an innovation programme
- How they integrate into an organisation over time
…I’ll just get a coffee