Slides and Audio from IDEA 2006 are now publically available. Linda Stone’s discussion of continuous partial attention driving a greater need for authenticity is one to put on the ipod, but my favorite is Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote, as he urged the audience to change the world by creating better systems that will replace the […]
The design mindset can help with the world’s wicked problems. Worldchanging is one place that is tackling the same issues, and helps keep us aware of these deeply meaningful challenges that transcend the interesting, but less globally critical impacts of corporate strategy and product design. Now the folks at Worldchanging have brought out a profoundly […]
I’m at the IDEA 2006 conference, and it’s tackling important issues in coping with the onslaught of information in today’s world. The location is the Rem Koolhaus designed Seattle Public Library with its spiralling ascension of stacks and information visualization of books getting checked out. Favorite topics so far:
Linda Stone on continuous partial attention […]
When Bruce Nussbaum pimped a post about Design Is the New Management Consultancy I was disappointed. It showed the kind of breathless rah-rah that characterizes a sort of design thinking bubble - a look at design that lacks critical thinking, or understanding of what’s really involved in management consulting.
Fortunately, the thoughtful and articulate Victor Lombardi […]
A staple in science fiction is the idea of creating food and other things out of thin air. This YouTube video on Web 2.0 uses stop animation to show us a picture of what things might look like if we had this kind of assembly technology today.
While I’m not sure I want to print out […]
The traditional pharma method for drug development is high-risk exploration and invention. R&D spending is the major expense for pharmaceutical companies. However, an approach called high throughput screening offers a disruptive alternative model - in essence, drugs that have been approved by the FDA for one treatment are screened against test-tube models of other conditions […]
Over the past year at work, we’ve been doing a lot of work for a US Fortune 500 company (my firm is in Canada). For a boutique consulting firm, they are a major client, and a major contributor to our cashflow. Last month, I figured out why one invoice had been delayed - in Canada, […]
Abductive thinking is a different kind of problem solving that works to generate new ideas, new scenarios, and new options for consideration. Rather than working from first principles, or from the current state of things, this generative approach is all about creating new possibilities. It’s a cornerstone of design thinking, and the approach of rapid […]
So, a couple weeks ago, Business Week published a piece on D-schools (that’s design schools, in case you’re guessing) as the source for design thinking talent. While the puff pieces on design grads didn’t really grab me, I enjoyed this table comparing different d-school programs that also includes design-savvy business school programs.
Friends Robin, Michael, and Ian launched Torch Partnership earlier this year in Toronto, and now have a Torch website and a blog - Torch is Wicked. Meeting Robin and Michael at Overlap was a blast, and I’m looking forward to great things from the trio.
