January 2011
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Consumer centric AND employee centric, define your...
Why?
Because they carry the vision already
Because they will need to carry the vision going forwards
Because they are the company
Because every employee will be empowered
Because business will be played out in genuine relationships, there’s no hiding
Because it’s a grounded way of bridging the vision reality gap
June 2010
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The Tenets of Digital Strategy →
Business needs right brain →
May 2010
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Anyone else?
Understanding comes from placing something by asking:
How productive (the doing)
How profound (the thinking)
How connected (the spirit)
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Social dynamics of organisational change →
A good post building on the ‘Design Thinking organisations’ debate.
The key to organisational change is in social dynamics, which are based on social values, which are socially constructed truths I’d add (post on ‘social constructs’ to come).
Social dynamics feed off relationship, and depend on good will, commitment, purpose.
To change an organisation you’ve...
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Can organisations be beautiful? →
If great product designs have functional and emotional elements, with the emotional side built on meaning, what about organisations? Can they have a meaning based quality to them?
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Behaviour of strategic designers →
8 ways to behave as a strategic designer designing for social impact, but very relevant for designers working in business.
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The big re-think, reflections →
An interesting article on where design is going. Some reflections on the reflections: For me much of the activity around what design is has greatest value in opening up design and bringing others in. In business design needs to be relational and participatory to be strategic. I’m working through what is unique at the intersection between design and business. Vision resilience. For designers...
April 2010
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iPhone 4G spotted in the wild [PICS] →
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Design strategy is process
Traditional business might have treated a design strategy as a masterplan, a series of defined steps intended to control the future; the hopes for the future would be in the plan.
The new is to see it as process in the sense that it’s a way of doing things, an attitude, an intent; the methods aren’t defined so much as the intent. It’s an organic order.
A product of a process is a reflection of...
March 2010
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Six sigma vs design thinking →
This article got me thinking.
The relationship between the two types of process, and ways of thinking, can be heavy going. It needs people who can bridge it.
Industrial Design always claimed to bridge between industry and consumer. Now markets and business are maturing to the point where ‘design strategist’ types bridge between old business (six sigma alone) and design thinking.
Where does...
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Depth, the new clarity
Traditional business has valued clarity and decision above all.
New business will need to value depth and vision.
That’s not to say the depth can’t be clear, the best visions are extremely clear, they need to be.
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User-Centered Innovation Is Not Sustainable →
The big re-think continues… A good statement post.
Design Thinking is Dead. Long Live Design... →
The Design Thinking meme has been around for a long time — since around 2007 — but only recently did it pick up some steam due to the global financial crisis (driven largely by an as of yet unacknowledged global, fundamental crisis at the very heart of business and capitalism itself).
As…
I agree design orientation sounds like a good signpost for a mindset that’s needed within...
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Having Ideas Versus Having a Vision →
Excellent post by Roberto Verganti.
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Transforming design conference, London 21-22 April →
-How to lead and encourage design investment
-What design can and can’t deliver
-Have we arrived at the Golden Age of Design?
-How design methods being used to address social problems
-The new economic ecosystem
-How strategic design thinking must constantly evolve within a company’s DNA
-The transformational potential of design
-Design as a method for navigating complexity
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A new portfolio of some of my products for your... →
Good rundown on agency models, traditional and... →
David Cameron: The next age of government...
Check out this episode of TEDTalks (video) by David Cameron: The next age of government
http://bit.ly/bk5Hi9
Is your company traditional or designful?
Marty Neumeier