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IDEA 2009 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Innovation Parkour – IDEA 2009 View more documents from Normative. Regardless of your current project, the principles behind these examples (from disciplines like social sciences, psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science) can be applied universally. The techo-geeky thing is old news, Lisa applies some human thinking.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

My experience is far from unique; non-government organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders have spent more than hundreds of millions of dollars on water supply projects in Africa and other regions that have broken down and no longer work. million people since 2009. Over time, virtually all the wells broke.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innovators are forced to give up on initiatives, projects, and resources. In this context, innovators wonder how to get ideas across, how to continue projects, what back-up solutions to find and how to keep innovation afloat. The long-horizon projects are the first to go and this leads to an unbalanced innovation portfolio.

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

InnovationTraining.org

Here we share five reasons why now’s the time to bring your team together for a remote design thinking project. Research by McKinsey & Company found that organizations that maintained their focus on innovation during the 2009 financial crisis emerged stronger. Invest in innovation now, outperform your peers in the long term.

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InnovationOps: the Next Evolution of Innovation Management

Innov8rs

Not in terms of failing fast during experimentation, but failing after launch in the market. Mike has thirty years of experience in building and leading cross functional teams and organizations to successfully define, develop and bring new companies and products to market. On average 35% to 50% of innovations fail.

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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. Because this project centered on the makers of Second Life, Linden Lab in San Francisco, to a certain extent the familiar form of face-to-face ethnographic participant observation and interviewing was possible.

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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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