Tomorrow I am speaking at the SHOP conference at the University of Arkansas on Design Thinking. I will be joined by many executives from the retail industry, including Wal-Mart, as we explore Retail Innovation. I am excited. I think the Retail Industry overall is...
Last night I spoke to a group of women entrepreneurs on a culture of innovation. I shared a bit on Framing, one of my favorite parts of design thinking. How you frame something or look at it makes all the difference in the world in terms of what opportunities you...
There is a great divide between creating/imagining a new idea or invention and crossing over to launching it as a successful innovation in the marketplace. One way this divide can manifest is between the innovation team and the commercialization team in a large...
When I was a child in school, we looked forward to the snow day, the day of freedom from responsibility and the unexpected joy of spontaneous play. While I don’t want to sound like the Grinch, I wonder if the Snow Day is outdated and if even the institution of...
Recent research suggests the long “go to innovation tool” of brainstorming doesn’t work*. How can that be? I remember the brainstorming sessions of the 80’s. Friday afternoon a bunch of us might go into a conference room and start...
