There’s an interesting article in the new edition of the International Journal of Design called “Metaphors in Design Problem Solving: Implications for Creativity“. Here’s the abstract: Metaphors help designers to understand unfamiliar design problems by juxtaposing them with known situations. Retrieving concepts from metaphors demands creative thinking. While the importance of this heuristic has been […]
Irving Wladawsky-Berger has an interesting post that relates complex organizational systems, innovation management (processes) and the use of social software in the enterprise (you know why I find this interesting …): […] the opportunities to leverage the huge advances in technologies, standards and communications to enable us to look at a whole organization – an […]
Everything’s connected, especially in this little world of business model design thinking. Both Ralf Beuker and Alex Osterwalder pointed me to this video interview with Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman Business School (publishing a fine journal as well, see e.g. here, for BMID-design-coverage see more here or here). … where he talks about innovation, […]
Putting People First has put together a compilation of videos from IIT’s Institute of Design Strategy conference in Chicago … […] addressing how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, solve complex problems, and achieve lasting strategic advantage […] design, with its ability to understand users, redefine problems and create systemic, human-centered solutions, can […]
This is an interesting podcast interview with Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO on the theme of “Innovation Through Design Thinking” (mp3), some BMID-coverage. Where is design thinking taking us? The role of design is evolving within organizations, from simply optimizing what exists to being a source of new growth. The change is thrusting designers into […]
Bruce Nussbaum on why synergy is such an overrated concept, taking the DaimlerChrysler de-merger as trigger and arguing along design thinking lines: Why do most mergers fail? Mostly because they are top down, not bottom up. CEOs and senior managers see synergies and benefits that matter little, if at all, to consumers. Daimler thought that […]
Via Tim Bruysten: Form hat ihr Archiv geöffnet. Schon richtig, sehr löblich aber … “the user interface sucks” … seht selbst
