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Fix the Problem or Design it Out?

Braden Kelley

According to The Plastic Pollution Coalition (January 3, 2017) – “It’s National Drinking Straw Day! Let’s start with the problem. Each day, more than 500 million plastic straws are used and discarded in the U.S. Plastic straws consistently make … Continue reading →

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Gijs van Wulfen, Keynote Speaker, FORTH Innovation Institute

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

At a Glance Gijs van Wulfen, Keynote Speaker, Innovation Institute Focus Areas : Innovation, Design Thinking, Creativity. His book, ‘The Innovation Maze’ , was crowned recently as Management Book of the Year 2017 in The Netherlands. I travel around the whole world for my keynotes on Design Thinking and Innovation.

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The Perfect Conditions for Entering A New Innovation Era in 2017

Paul Hobcraft

So if there was ever a time to clear the existing innovation agenda and rework the entire space for innovating, it is about to become the pressing reality as we enter into 2017. We are encouraging more innovation hacks, providing different designs of crowdsourcing for funding, ideas, and understanding.

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Best Among What I Read Today – The Innovation Edition, Jan 5th 2017

Rmukesh Gupta

Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea. In this blog post, Roger Martin shares how the concepts of design thinking can be used not just to create new products or services but can be used for a much more important activity – to build commitments to the ideas that the design thinking team is working on.

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Should You Fix the Problem or Design it Out?

Innovation Excellence

According to The Plastic Pollution Coalition (January 3, 2017) – “It’s National Drinking Straw Day! Let’s start with the problem. Each day, more than 500 million plastic straws are used and discarded in the U.S.

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Top 7 Business Innovation Trends for 2017

Qmarkets

In this article, we look at a few key business trends of 2017 in different sectors and how they are redefining technology and business strategy this year. To do this, businesses need to develop new methodologies such as user experience design, service design, and design thinking to create convenient user journeys across channels.

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Three Ways Government Agencies Can Do More With Less —Right Now

IdeaScale

Then by September 2017, agencies are to submit ideas for reorganizing programs to remove duplication and inefficiency. Coast Guard, is who is already utilizing “design thinking” and “human-centered design” methodologies to power how the Coast Guard leads innovation.