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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

Genius is created, not born. The right geographical, cultural, and economic environments can create an ecosystem that facilitates innovation and creativity.

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Start with Empathy

Fehmida Kapadia

Reimagine your learning experience I taught my first design thinking class this week. We combined Prof. Geraldo Campos’ class and Prof. Carolina Rubin’s class for this session, so it was a big group of 60 students. All students are undergraduates in business management.

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Three Tools I Use to Enhance Customer Engagement and Innovate Strategically

Fehmida Kapadia

Paradigms of product development have shifted significantly in the last decade. We have started integrating the agile and lean methodology (popularized by the IT industry) into our waterfall methodology (popularized by the manufacturing industry). The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn.

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Five Innovation Lessons I Learnt From Rock Climbing

Fehmida Kapadia

Last week, I had the opportunity to spend sometime in the beautiful mountains of Sedona, AZ. When I reached, my Airbnb host informed me that I had the opportunity to be a part of a guided hike to the top of Bell Rock, if interested. Always ready for new challenges, I immediately called the guide and got myself a spot.

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Drive Disruption with Design THINKING

Fehmida Kapadia

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Drive Disruption with Design THINKING

Fehmida Kapadia

Envision this: Coffee shop on a sunny, spring Sunday afternoon. A bunch of us have gathered here as part of a writing group to work on our projects. An hour into the activity, we take a short break to discuss what we are working on and the following conversation ensues “I am writing about design thinking” “Oh! Are you a designer?” “No,