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IDEA 2009 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Listen and learn from experts in a variety of fields as we all continue the exploration of Social Experience Design. Matthew Milan, Principal and Design Director with Normative, helps us understand how to generate, identify, frame and use insight effectively. Innovation Parkour – IDEA 2009 View more documents from Normative.

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What Somalia’s Impending Famine Teaches Us About Addressing Donor Fatigue

Christensen Institute

Somalia’s famines are typically intensified by international policies designed to fight terrorism. In 2009 , for example, fears that Islamist insurgent Al-Shabaab was benefiting from the influx of food aid led the U.S Market-creating innovations create markets that serve people for whom existing products or services were unattainable.

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5 Reasons to Bring Your Team Together for a Remote Design Thinking Project Now

InnovationTraining.org

At Sprintbase , we help businesses bring remote teams together to tackle the challenges they’re facing remotely using design thinking to find truly innovative solutions. Here we share five reasons why now’s the time to bring your team together for a remote design thinking project. But first you need to be ready to spot them.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Thomas Malaby

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. We don’t need killer apps, we need killer uses—and those are far harder to anticipate and encourage through design. I think Second Life already has. especially the Bay Area).

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

In the UN’s first ever assessment of water security in Africa, around half a billion people are in areas designated “ water insecure.” . As the people on the ground design and develop their solutions, they pull in the appropriate resources necessary to make the solutions sustainable. million people since 2009.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Leisa Reichelt

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As a designer for a prominent open source community project, what have you found to be the keys to success in working with open source developers, specifically on the usability and experience fronts?

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Strategic goals and design principles for establishing innovation centres

Innovation 360

Strategic goals and design principles for establishing innovation centres. However, ignoring innovation and the capability it can give an organization is not a viable option in today’s marketplace, so the question is how can we better design such capabilities to drive forward innovation? Identify new business opportunities.

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