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Hidden in Plain Sight

I am often shocked by how simple design thinking innovation is.  It is breakthrough and yet simple.   I am also constantly amazed at how design thinking can be useful in so many contexts from creating products to business strategy to health care.  For instance, Design...

The Five Aspirations

There are glass half empty people and glass half full people.  Both are useful at given moments.  In innovation, however, I think there is a need to be optimistic and aspirational. The creative act requires it.Recently I read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A...

WOW-the power of failure!

I just finished teaching my graduate school class on design thinking for business. For a few weeks each fall I have graduate marketing, research, finance and mba students learning how to solve a classic business/marketing problem using design thinking methods and...

Innovation is rose colored

As a child, my parents would say “Cindy you wear rose colored glasses.”  It was meant as a compliment and a commentary on how naive I was, not seeing the world for its bumps and bruises. I think innovation is rose-colored. It requires seeing possibility...
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