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Fly, Crash, Adapt

Destination Innovation

Paul MacCready (1925 – 2007) was an aeronautical engineer and inventor of the first human-powered aircraft. Early efforts to build human-powered aircraft had featured wooden designs, which proved too heavy. They came up with an unorthodox design called the Gossamer Condor. Paul MacCready. Some used catapults to launch the craft.

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Why Government is Essential for Private Sector Innovation

Destination Innovation

Steve Jobs announced the iPhone to the world on 9 January 2007. Steve Jobs, Sir Jonathan Ive and the design team at Apple deserve the tremendous credit they get for this seismic innovation. This iconic product became a sensational success and propelled Apple to become the most valuable company on Earth. These include: 1. The Internet.

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Bringing Design Thinking into the classroom to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future

Betterific

Paul Kim , is a teacher at Colorado Academy and Co-Director of the Redi Lab, and is best known for using the design thinking process to teach History. He is our design thinking guest blogger. Below, Paul lays the case for using design thinking in school. Differentiation by Design. by Paul Kim.

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Congressional testimony on higher ed: Allow for innovation, incentivize student outcomes

Christensen Institute

They were designed originally as peer-review organizations to determine what is a college and to help institutions improve. But accreditors were not built to play a quality assurance role.

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Innovation Lessons from the Master, Steve Jobs

Destination Innovation

The marriage of aesthetics and technology became his life-long obsession. Jobs worked with designer Jonathan Ive to develop a stunning sequence of new product blockbusters: the iMac, iTunes, Apple Stores, the iPod, the iTunes Store, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad. He empowered his team to design something radical and they did.

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Designing for Social Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

Let’s look at each type of tie, and how we might design for them. 8 In both 2002 and 2007, a study of 1,178 adults found that on average, people had about 10 friends they meet or speak with at least weekly (10 strong ties). 9 So, when we’re designing for strong ties, we’re designing for small groups of people.

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Using Anticipatory Innovation to Navigate Uncertainty

mjvinnovation

Excerpted from The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copyright © 2007 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. In short, the answer is a powerful combination of anticipatory innovation, digital transformation, technology, and of course, creativity. What is Futures Design and Anticipatory Innovation?