Discovery, Creativity, Innovation. When you think of these words I bet you don’t think of associating words like discipline and process to them. Yet, I would say it is appropriate to do just that, but in ways that may not be what you might typically imagine....
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...
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...
What is your have to? Time is fleeting. Where you spend it says a lot. I just spent 3 days focused on filling my bucket at BIF10. A little inspiration. A lot of conversation. Meeting new people who are interesting and who opened up my mind to more. ...
I often start and end an innovation workshop with a personal “weather report”. What are you? Sunny? Cloudy? Stormy? Breezy? It is a simple way to understand how people are arriving to that moment or how they are leaving. A couple of metaphorical words...
