PR Genome Series: The Case For Design Thinking in CommunicationsPR Council
Design has emerged as one of the most distinguishing factors in determining a company’s success. Products and services are a reflection of the internal state of the organization that designs them, and strategy, values, and principles are manifested through design just as clearly as power struggles and dysfunction.
Truly great design doesn’t only communicate the world we live in; it also communicates a vision for the world we wish existed. Can’t the same be said for great brand communications? If design = communications, aren’t all organizations “design-centric” and all communications executives designers? More importantly, can we leverage design thinking to help us be more creative brand communicators?
This video for this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018 will be published here soon: http://businessofsoftware.org/2016/07/all-talks-from-business-of-software-conferences-in-one-place-saas-software-talks/
How can good design be integrated into your business profitably? Jane will answer this question by considering the ‘anti-problem’. She will share 10 ways designers and business people can guarantee their behaviours and activities will ensure they never see eye-to-eye, their efforts will be wasted and everyone involved will know it is not their fault. You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation. That is the anti-pattern.
If things are going to change for the better, do the opposite.
Behind the Curtain: Making Magical Tools Is Not MagicMark Pavlidis
Challenging conventional methods, Mark will present a framework you can use to minimize process and how to consistently level-up your product. This product - not project - management approach to building Flixel’s apps has been critical for development decision making and focus. It has lead to partnerships with ANTM, Adobe, and Facebook, and an Apple Design Award for Cinemagraph Pro for Mac.
PR Genome Series: The Case For Design Thinking in CommunicationsPR Council
Design has emerged as one of the most distinguishing factors in determining a company’s success. Products and services are a reflection of the internal state of the organization that designs them, and strategy, values, and principles are manifested through design just as clearly as power struggles and dysfunction.
Truly great design doesn’t only communicate the world we live in; it also communicates a vision for the world we wish existed. Can’t the same be said for great brand communications? If design = communications, aren’t all organizations “design-centric” and all communications executives designers? More importantly, can we leverage design thinking to help us be more creative brand communicators?
This video for this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018 will be published here soon: http://businessofsoftware.org/2016/07/all-talks-from-business-of-software-conferences-in-one-place-saas-software-talks/
How can good design be integrated into your business profitably? Jane will answer this question by considering the ‘anti-problem’. She will share 10 ways designers and business people can guarantee their behaviours and activities will ensure they never see eye-to-eye, their efforts will be wasted and everyone involved will know it is not their fault. You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation. That is the anti-pattern.
If things are going to change for the better, do the opposite.
Behind the Curtain: Making Magical Tools Is Not MagicMark Pavlidis
Challenging conventional methods, Mark will present a framework you can use to minimize process and how to consistently level-up your product. This product - not project - management approach to building Flixel’s apps has been critical for development decision making and focus. It has lead to partnerships with ANTM, Adobe, and Facebook, and an Apple Design Award for Cinemagraph Pro for Mac.
Social Business at Grundfos, presented at SAP Social Event Oct 1, 2013Christian Carlsson
I presented at a SAP Social event in Copenhagen on October 1st 2013, on the topic “Social Business at Grundfos”. These are the slides, but they make of course more sense when you here me speak. It is mainly focused on use cases where SAP and/or partners are the main components, since this was a SAP CRM event.
In short about Social Business at Grundfos
Grundfos recent years high focus on becoming a Social Business stems mainly from the CEO’s vision that “everyone should be working as under one roof”, which in term has led to the creation of a “Grundfos Global Working Culture” initiative, with assigned resources and budgets.
The Global Working Cultures goal is for Social Business strategies and methods to drive growth and innovation for Grundfos, and speed up strategy execution capabilities. And we do this by making it normal to engage actively and openly in a globally connected Grundfos – internally as well as externally – with the purpose of leveraging opportunities and ideas, collaborate effectively, and/or reduce inefficiencies.
Sounds nice, right?! Hmm…. agree, it is a bit MBA business gibberish. But on the other hand, there are both thoughts and actions behind the words.
Actually, if I may suggest one key take away from that mission statement, then it is: “making it normal to engage actively and openly in a globally connected Grundfos”. We have to move from a “closed by default” culture, to an “open by default”. This means, instead of always choosing who we send information to (by email), we move towards choosing when the communication should be private or to a selected audience. Think about it – it is a big shift – cultural, behavioral, and technical.
Well, enjoy the slides. I will work on having the speaking notes added to our socialbusinessjourney.com blog.
Design Thinking: The one thing that will transform the way you thinkDigital Surgeons
What's the one thing that will transform the way you think? Design Thinking. The startups, trailblazers, and business mavericks of our world have embraced this process as a means of zeroing in on true human-centered design.
Design Thinking is a methodology for innovators that taps into the two biggest skills needed in today’s modern workplace: critical thinking & problem solving.
Of course, if you ask 100 practitioners to define it, you’ll wind up with 101 definitions.
Pete Sena of Digital Surgeons believes that Design Thinking is a process for solving complex problems through observation and iteration. At its core, he describes it as a vehicle for solving human wants and needs.
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open. Thomas Dewar was a Scottish whiskey distiller.
Communicating ideas or insights is often the hardest part of the design process. And PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheets are limited in their ability to do this. But the communication tools used in Design Thinking—maps, models, sketches, and stories—help to capture and express the information required to form and socialize meaning in a very straightforward, human way.
The Five things that all definitions of Design Thinking have in common:
1. Isolating and reframing the problem focused on the user.
2. Empathy. A design practitioner from IDEO, the popular design and innovation firm strapped a video camera to his head and it was only then that he recognized why the ceiling is such an important factor when working with hospital patients. As a patient you lay in bed and stare at it all day. It’s these little details and true empathy that can only be realized by putting oneself in the user’s shoes.
3. Approach things with an open mind and be willing to collaborate. Creativity with purpose is a team sport.
4. Curiosity. We have to harness our inner 5-year-old here and really be inquisitive explorers. Instead of seeing what would be or what should be, consider what COULD be.
5 - Commitment. Brainstorming is easy. It’s easy to want to start a business or solve a problem. Seeing it into market and making it successful is not for the faint of heart. We’ve all read about big “wins” (multi-billion dollar acquisitions like Instagram and WhatsApp). What we don’t read about are people like Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, who work for years before becoming industry sensations.
Pete describes what he refers to as the “Wheel of Innovation” as a process that continuously focuses on framing, making, validating, and improving on your concept. Be it as small as a core feature in your product down to the business model and business idea itself.
Design is about form and function, not art.
What are the business benefits for Design Innovation?
IDEO started an idea revolution when they coined this phrase DESIGN THINKING. Organizations ranging from early-stage startups up to Fortune 50 organizations have capitalized on this iterative appr
This video for this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018 will be published here soon: http://businessofsoftware.org/2016/07/all-talks-from-business-of-software-conferences-in-one-place-saas-software-talks/
It’s not just enough to hire talented people and hope for the best. Innovation and complex problem-solving requires teamwork, so we need to pay attention to how people work together. Building great products means creating the best environment for teams to thrive.
Finding the right balance between individual expertise and collective effort, while tricky, is possible. In this talk, Alison will share her insights on effective collaboration, the habits of successful teams, and principles for designing an outstanding team culture.
Moving Innovation from Buzzword to ActionZeus Jones
People — not processes — are what build every great business. The same is true of innovation. Here's how to build a culture of innovation within any company.
freshly blended for different learning:
we need new formats for groups, companies and the society to break up current myths in the learning environment - that's the mission of kay steglich and thomas staehelin from curious minds
We all know that adhering to the principles of Agile can bring benefits to an individual, team or organisation. However, whilst Agile methods can help in realising those benefits, they can also bring a lot of danger to their users. In this session discover what those risks are, how to avoid them, and the advice we should give others when they embark on an Agile journey.
On 17 February 2015, Doing Something Good facilitated a half day Insights and Innovation Lab in partnership with Vicsport and VicHealth to explore the changing business of community sport, and how clubs, associations and other service providers might respond effectively to emerging trends and the needs of Victorians to engage them in sport.
Doing Something Good facilitated this second event in Vicsport's 'Forward Thinking' series, addressing the changing business of community sport, and innovative approaches to getting more Victorian's physically active through sport.
Innovation in Action on 19 March was a practical workshop aimed at improving the capability of organisations in the community sport sector to be innovative, and generate game-changing ideas simply and quickly.
The Innovation in Action workshop provided participants with an opportunity to:
> Discover how top innovators approach problem solving
> Learn how you can apply cutting edge and easy to use design principles and methodologies to generate innovative ideas for community sport products, services and programs
> Participate in a practical ‘rapid prototyping’ team challenge to design innovative community sport membership models simply and quickly
How to be more like Elon Musk (and less like a wimp who isn't changing the wo...Dent Global
Elon Musk is the creator of 4 multi-billion dollar companies - PayPay, SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity. Each is a game changer with the potential to improve the world.
Here's five skills he uses to create an impact that you can immediately adopt.
To measure and improve these skills visit - www.keypersonofinfluence.com/scorecard
Would you use this? UX South Africa 2016Phil Barrett
if you're an innovator, "Would you use this" is a question you really want to answer. But you can't ask it in a usability test. Usability tests can evaluate comprehension and ease of use, but test respondents can't reliably predict their own future behaviour. If you base your strategic choices on experiments where you ask them to do that, you can cause serious damage to your company.
But using the JTBD change making forces, and the MAO model, you can start to explore the factors that influence people's actions systematically . You can find out *when* and *why* people will use your new product idea, which is enough to work out whether your product is on the right track.
Social Business at Grundfos, presented at SAP Social Event Oct 1, 2013Christian Carlsson
I presented at a SAP Social event in Copenhagen on October 1st 2013, on the topic “Social Business at Grundfos”. These are the slides, but they make of course more sense when you here me speak. It is mainly focused on use cases where SAP and/or partners are the main components, since this was a SAP CRM event.
In short about Social Business at Grundfos
Grundfos recent years high focus on becoming a Social Business stems mainly from the CEO’s vision that “everyone should be working as under one roof”, which in term has led to the creation of a “Grundfos Global Working Culture” initiative, with assigned resources and budgets.
The Global Working Cultures goal is for Social Business strategies and methods to drive growth and innovation for Grundfos, and speed up strategy execution capabilities. And we do this by making it normal to engage actively and openly in a globally connected Grundfos – internally as well as externally – with the purpose of leveraging opportunities and ideas, collaborate effectively, and/or reduce inefficiencies.
Sounds nice, right?! Hmm…. agree, it is a bit MBA business gibberish. But on the other hand, there are both thoughts and actions behind the words.
Actually, if I may suggest one key take away from that mission statement, then it is: “making it normal to engage actively and openly in a globally connected Grundfos”. We have to move from a “closed by default” culture, to an “open by default”. This means, instead of always choosing who we send information to (by email), we move towards choosing when the communication should be private or to a selected audience. Think about it – it is a big shift – cultural, behavioral, and technical.
Well, enjoy the slides. I will work on having the speaking notes added to our socialbusinessjourney.com blog.
Design Thinking: The one thing that will transform the way you thinkDigital Surgeons
What's the one thing that will transform the way you think? Design Thinking. The startups, trailblazers, and business mavericks of our world have embraced this process as a means of zeroing in on true human-centered design.
Design Thinking is a methodology for innovators that taps into the two biggest skills needed in today’s modern workplace: critical thinking & problem solving.
Of course, if you ask 100 practitioners to define it, you’ll wind up with 101 definitions.
Pete Sena of Digital Surgeons believes that Design Thinking is a process for solving complex problems through observation and iteration. At its core, he describes it as a vehicle for solving human wants and needs.
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open. Thomas Dewar was a Scottish whiskey distiller.
Communicating ideas or insights is often the hardest part of the design process. And PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheets are limited in their ability to do this. But the communication tools used in Design Thinking—maps, models, sketches, and stories—help to capture and express the information required to form and socialize meaning in a very straightforward, human way.
The Five things that all definitions of Design Thinking have in common:
1. Isolating and reframing the problem focused on the user.
2. Empathy. A design practitioner from IDEO, the popular design and innovation firm strapped a video camera to his head and it was only then that he recognized why the ceiling is such an important factor when working with hospital patients. As a patient you lay in bed and stare at it all day. It’s these little details and true empathy that can only be realized by putting oneself in the user’s shoes.
3. Approach things with an open mind and be willing to collaborate. Creativity with purpose is a team sport.
4. Curiosity. We have to harness our inner 5-year-old here and really be inquisitive explorers. Instead of seeing what would be or what should be, consider what COULD be.
5 - Commitment. Brainstorming is easy. It’s easy to want to start a business or solve a problem. Seeing it into market and making it successful is not for the faint of heart. We’ve all read about big “wins” (multi-billion dollar acquisitions like Instagram and WhatsApp). What we don’t read about are people like Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, who work for years before becoming industry sensations.
Pete describes what he refers to as the “Wheel of Innovation” as a process that continuously focuses on framing, making, validating, and improving on your concept. Be it as small as a core feature in your product down to the business model and business idea itself.
Design is about form and function, not art.
What are the business benefits for Design Innovation?
IDEO started an idea revolution when they coined this phrase DESIGN THINKING. Organizations ranging from early-stage startups up to Fortune 50 organizations have capitalized on this iterative appr
This video for this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018 will be published here soon: http://businessofsoftware.org/2016/07/all-talks-from-business-of-software-conferences-in-one-place-saas-software-talks/
It’s not just enough to hire talented people and hope for the best. Innovation and complex problem-solving requires teamwork, so we need to pay attention to how people work together. Building great products means creating the best environment for teams to thrive.
Finding the right balance between individual expertise and collective effort, while tricky, is possible. In this talk, Alison will share her insights on effective collaboration, the habits of successful teams, and principles for designing an outstanding team culture.
Moving Innovation from Buzzword to ActionZeus Jones
People — not processes — are what build every great business. The same is true of innovation. Here's how to build a culture of innovation within any company.
freshly blended for different learning:
we need new formats for groups, companies and the society to break up current myths in the learning environment - that's the mission of kay steglich and thomas staehelin from curious minds
We all know that adhering to the principles of Agile can bring benefits to an individual, team or organisation. However, whilst Agile methods can help in realising those benefits, they can also bring a lot of danger to their users. In this session discover what those risks are, how to avoid them, and the advice we should give others when they embark on an Agile journey.
On 17 February 2015, Doing Something Good facilitated a half day Insights and Innovation Lab in partnership with Vicsport and VicHealth to explore the changing business of community sport, and how clubs, associations and other service providers might respond effectively to emerging trends and the needs of Victorians to engage them in sport.
Doing Something Good facilitated this second event in Vicsport's 'Forward Thinking' series, addressing the changing business of community sport, and innovative approaches to getting more Victorian's physically active through sport.
Innovation in Action on 19 March was a practical workshop aimed at improving the capability of organisations in the community sport sector to be innovative, and generate game-changing ideas simply and quickly.
The Innovation in Action workshop provided participants with an opportunity to:
> Discover how top innovators approach problem solving
> Learn how you can apply cutting edge and easy to use design principles and methodologies to generate innovative ideas for community sport products, services and programs
> Participate in a practical ‘rapid prototyping’ team challenge to design innovative community sport membership models simply and quickly
How to be more like Elon Musk (and less like a wimp who isn't changing the wo...Dent Global
Elon Musk is the creator of 4 multi-billion dollar companies - PayPay, SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity. Each is a game changer with the potential to improve the world.
Here's five skills he uses to create an impact that you can immediately adopt.
To measure and improve these skills visit - www.keypersonofinfluence.com/scorecard
Would you use this? UX South Africa 2016Phil Barrett
if you're an innovator, "Would you use this" is a question you really want to answer. But you can't ask it in a usability test. Usability tests can evaluate comprehension and ease of use, but test respondents can't reliably predict their own future behaviour. If you base your strategic choices on experiments where you ask them to do that, you can cause serious damage to your company.
But using the JTBD change making forces, and the MAO model, you can start to explore the factors that influence people's actions systematically . You can find out *when* and *why* people will use your new product idea, which is enough to work out whether your product is on the right track.
About our bias to simplistic black & white taxonomies, some myths of innovation, and why the only truth comes from people who have the courage to be a corporate rebel and dare to step forward in their true selves, taking personal responsibility and leadership
Key note presentation josephine green- piramids to pancakescsdbdv
This is Josephine Green's key note presentation from our Squaretable event which we hosted 22-9-2011 on the subject of 'new customer realities: capturing added value from sustainability'.
Voici une partie de ma présentation "Innovation Collaborative & Crowdsourcing" faite le 19 mars 2014 chez BEL Group. Il ne s'agit que d'extraits car je réserve l'ensemble de la présentation aux personnes présentes à ce jour.
N'hésitez pas à me contacter pour des présentations similaires au sein de votre entreprise. Envoyez-moi un mail ou rendez-vous sur www.yannigroth.com
A talk given to University of Washington HCDE Program introducing how design thinking offers a toolkit for the 21st century "4C" skills of collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking
The “Creative Thinking for the 21st Century” presentation, given at the AFACCT Conference in January 2015, examined how educators can embed 21st century skills into their teaching curriculum. The goal was to show that by using innovative teaching and learning processes students gain skills in collaboration and team building, enhanced communication through presentation, and applied analysis of information. Teaching and learning strategies to engage students to think differently about their own learning and to move beyond critical thinking to creative thinking was emphasized.
Innovation through Experience Design: Designers as InnovatorsJason Ulaszek
The pressure to create amazing, groundbreaking product and service experiences has intensified within just about every industry. Entire industries are now competing heavily on larger, connected ecosystems, not just individualized experiences. Competing organizations are increasingly enlisting designers to help bring clarity to decisions supporting the what, where, how and when of it all. In turn, the pressure point becomes the designer.
Designers possess the ability to influence the creation and design of new products and services. Sometimes they’re even given opportunity to influence business model transformation. But, what about innovation? Do designers possess the ability to disrupt the status quo and become the innovator? And, are they ready for it? I think so. And, after this session I think you’ll see why too.
Together, we’ll examine the role of an experience designer as an innovator and the skills designers command that can engineer new business opportunity and effect social change. We’ll share examples, models and skills that you’ll need in order to lead the charge.
Originally presented by Jason Ulaszek and Brian Winters at Webvisions Chicago on September 24, 2015.