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How Design Thinking Promotes Innovation

IdeaScale

It’s well known that design thinking is a creative problem-solving process, which focuses on reaching solutions that were previously inaccessible. In reality, design thinking is a process that overlaps with traditional innovation in many different ways, making it extremely useful for innovative ideation.

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Why didn’t I think of that? A reusable, square wine barrel wins design award

Idea to Value

” This is one of those examples. A small family business of Ulrike und Thomas Lutz from Bellheim, Germany has just won a prestigious Design award for an innovation which seems like it took thousands of years and yet is so simple. They have developed a new design for the traditional oak barrel used to store and mature wine.

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TRANSFERRING IDEAS FROM ONE DOMAIN TO ANOTHER

Michael Michalko

Genius is often marked by the ability to imagine comparisons and similarities and even similar differences between parallel facts and events in different fields or “other worlds.” This is a structured technique that helps you imagine comparisons and similarities and even similar differences between subjects in other worlds.

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Examples of Data Science projects to help you leverage results

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In this article, we’ll talk a little bit about the concept and show you some examples of Data Science projects that helped leverage business results. Sales and marketing departments, for example, can extract customer data to improve conversion rates or create individual marketing campaigns. Design Driven Data Science.

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Do you recognize your innovators leaders position?

Paul Hobcraft

An example of a front-end leader in pharmaceutical firms is typically found as heads of discovery, often under the leadership of the chief research officer. A good example of this ‘divide’ is between two really famous leaders that have propelled Apple to the top in innovation and sustained execution Steve Jobs and Tim Cook of Apple.

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Creativity Must Guide the Data-Driven Design Process

Boxes and Arrows

Collecting data about design is easy in the digital world. And, as of late, data-driven design has become increasingly popular. As a designer, you no longer need to convince your clients of your design’s “elegance,” “simplicity,” or “beauty.” They’re showing up because of the new and improved design.

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The ecosystem evolution of microschools

Christensen Institute

The line was designed to look like an old movie set, and he had spotted a payphone. This example of the cell phone’s evolution could serve as a potential comparison to microschools. For example, many don’t yet offer great support for families that rely on schools for transportation and food services.