Service Design meets Futures Thinking #4
A research based series of posts discussing the statement “Futures Research supports the Service Design process in multiple ways and throughout the whole process” by Minna Koskelo (LinkedIn) and Anu K....
View Article“Drag-on – identity” Experiencing GovJam 2013 at Turku
HC SVNT DRACONES?? Hä? What? Is that the theme? What that means? First day in Global Government Jam at City of Turku started with lots of question mark in the air – all where totally blown away. We had...
View ArticleStarting the service innovation & design journey
The classroom was filled with excitement on last Thursday, as the 4th SID Master’s group started to navigate their service innovation & design journey. Throughout orientation the 28 new students...
View ArticleFailures are possibilities
Me and 27 other students were privileged to start the Service Innovation and Design Master’s program last September in Laurea University of Applied Sciences. Our first course was about Design Thinking...
View ArticleService Innovation and Design: A Giant Leap
13th September 2013, my first master class on “Design Thinking and Innovation” at Laurea University and I must say What A START!!! It was a very exciting day meeting all new people and introducing each...
View ArticleFlight SID2014: Take-Off in the World of Design Thinker
On 12th Sep, 2014 0900Hrs flight SID2014 took-off with my cloudy thoughts into the world of Design Thinking. With clear flight path, our Captains Katja Tschimmel and Gijs van Wulfen, introduced each...
View ArticleYou cannot innovate alone!
You’ve got a great idea, now what? How to get innovation off the ground in your company? “You can invent alone, but you can’t innovated alone.” – Gijs van Wulfen In the first course of our Service...
View ArticleDesigners: Think BIG! … but also BEYOND and GLOCAL
Tim Brown, in his book Change by Design (100% recommended), urges a global change by what he calls Design Thinking. Tim proposes to the world a new way to face the upcoming challenges, the small but...
View ArticleDesigning is about doing, not talking!
“Design is all about action, and business too often gets stuck at the talking stage. Uncertainty comes with the territory when business objective is growth. But that doesn’t mean that you are...
View ArticleTo me sound of SID is like a sound of music
How I found my inner spark of Services Innovation and Design Thinking? I was one of the lucky ones who got in to Services Innovation and Design (SID) Programme at Laurea University of Applied Sciences....
View ArticleThe Course for Human-Centered Design: How Might We Enable More Young People...
The Course for Human-Centered Design (provided by Ideo.org and +Acumen) is a seven-week curriculum, which introduces the concepts of human-centered design and how this approach can be used to create...
View ArticleFrom Chaos into Creativity
”Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer´s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business...
View ArticlePlayfull innovation
Play has evolved as an advantageous and necessary aspect of behaviour. Why is it then that we so often leave it on other side of the office door? (Michlewski & Buchanan, 2016) The power of Design...
View ArticleFeel the Energy of Shaking Minds
We had pleasure to participate on two day design thinking (DT) study module. These days were full of innovative thinking instructed by two lovely ladies from Portugal; Dr. Katja Tschimmel (Design...
View ArticleStages, more stages and the same stages all over again
The Design Thinking course on September 2nd-3rd 2016 was very illuminating. Doing Design Thinking by following a specific model really shows how much work should be put in design work itself from...
View ArticleUnleash Your Inner Beast
Be empathetic, gather courage and nurture creativity to make Breakthroughs. I would like to Thank our energetic lecturer Katja Tschimmel for sharing her knowledge and experiences on Design Thinking....
View ArticleCan Design Thinking Provide the Breakthroughs We Need to Reduce Global...
Woman cooking next to the port and market in Cotonou, Benin [Image (c) Jeffrey Allen] By Jeffrey Allen 25 Sep, LONDON – For the past seven years, I’ve designed and managed projects to improve lives...
View ArticleWill Design Thinking disrupt Education?
VIDEO Desktop walkthrough prototype Chances are if you didn’t go to design school (or don’t have a career in design) you believe you have absolutely no clue what Design Thinking is. But when one starts...
View ArticleDesign Thinking, new superpower?
World is changing faster than ever before. Businesses are facing more and more complex issues. Management models from the days of Industrial Revolution are not so useful in the fast-moving world of...
View ArticleThe power of design thinking
And why you should consider using it to innovate and solve business problems. Rashpal Bhati On the first weekend of September amidst the beginnings of Finnish Autumn, the SID class of 2019 gathered at...
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