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Beyond the Daily Grind: How Design Thinking Can Illuminate Your Life’s Purpose

Tullio Siragusa

Perhaps you volunteered at a local food bank during a difficult time in your life and found solace in making a difference. Don’t be afraid to think outside the box and entertain unconventional ideas. Example: To test your purpose-related ideas, you decide to start by volunteering at a local food bank.

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The right time to innovate

IdeaSpies

Netflix is a truly disruptive company that began as a mail-order DVD service and has evolved into a platform provider for streaming movies and other entertainment content and a producer of the content itself. The problem for companies today is that tomorrow is coming faster and faster, so they need to plan and strategise differently.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

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Look Inside a Woman's Purse

Innovation in Practice

Styring’s entertaining presentation married survey research and ethnography to explore not just what’s in America’s purses (1 in 10 contains a weapon, though the main categories are money, cards, phones, personal care, and keys) but what they mean.

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Your New Excuse to Get an Xbox

Boxes and Arrows

The televised Video Game Awards is in its sixth year and the influence of gaming culture is increasingly appearing in the mainstream. Conservatively positioned banking web application used by time-poor mom: “no thanks.&# Find a balance between challenging and rewarding the user Gut reaction: who wants to be challenged?

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Changing Lanes

Boxes and Arrows

Maybe you started out in your teens by bagging groceries, or perhaps you filled up that piggy bank by babysitting or mowing lawns. I’ve worked on the revenue side as well as the content side of small to large publishing/entertainment properties. That first job hopefully taught you some valuable lessons about life.

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