Unlearning: The Journey of Letting Go
It’s well-known that Amazon pushes new code about every 11 minutes. Companies spend about half the time on the Fortune 500 list in comparison to a few …
Design Thinking
The art of innovating for the freedom of creation
We know that the concept of education has changed and also the opportunities to obtain knowledge. In this same context, the work environment requires s…
3 Ways to adapt your business
Have you ever heard the metaphor "thinking outside the box" or "beyond the box"? It means to think differently, in an unconventional way or from a new …
8 steps to face a VUCA environment with Design Thinking
Competition increases for us every day as we face new and complete challenges. Not only the current historical ones, but also on a daily basis as we …
Agile Management: What you should know about Management 3.0
Known as Agility or Agile Coaching, the concept of agile management was born in software development companies in the early 2000's as a response to the…
Designing unique workshops is hard work
Finding opportunities for innovation and growth is hard work. The value of having good, interactive, highly participative workshops breaks much of thos…
A brain map to ideation
According to Peter F. Drucker, "Innovations based on a bright idea probably outnumber all other categories taken together." (Peter F. Drucker, "Innovat…
Human centred design – The secret sauce to business success
How to create products & services for your target audience If there’s a secret sauce to successful product development, it’s human-centered design…
5 Steps of the Design Thinking Process: A Step-by-Step Guide
The five steps that make up the design thinking process: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. By now, you’ve probably heard about design thi…
Designing for E-commerce User-Experience in Complex Scenarios
Designing ‘good’ e-commerce and m-commerce usability and user-experience is even more important than before. Issues such as trust, security, service qu…
Can we really deliver innovation?
Let’s be really honest with ourselves. We are good, sometimes even great, at coming up with innovative ideas. Occasionally we actually are able to thin…
What if we said no to our customers, once in a while?
There are certain ideas about which, once they have taken hold, is very hard to imagine a time when we might have thought any other way. Not many peop…
What Do You Learn in Human-Centered Design Training?
IDEO.org’s definition of human-centered design is elegant and concise: “Human-centered design sits at the intersection of empathy and creativity.” But,…
Do Shorter Design Sprints Work?
In Richard Banfield’s book Enterprise Design Sprints, he talks about how Design Sprints have become “a trusted format for problem-solving at many large…
War in a World Designed by Men
Like it or not we are all related to one another. As homo sapiens, sharing a home we call Earth, it is not surprising that we should exhibit similar de…
The 5 stages of future thinking
Stage 1 – Visual thinking Future thinking starts with a ‘I have a dream (King, 1963). This quote points out stage one, visualisation thinking. A dream…
Digital Discovery: How To Create a Digital Experience – That Is Built For The Real World…
The real challenge at the heart of digital transformation is with visualising the future - and building networks that can cope with a huge range of use…
Design Thinking & the Uncertain Future VUCA
Competition is increasing, and there is a greater chance of differentiation, as long as it is quickly acted upon to identify the opportunities offered …
Fostering innovation with technological solutions – Part 1
Here’s an odd challenge to get you thinking. What might the link be between Barcelona, fostering innovation with technological solutions and organisati…
Never Mind the Paradox
Or why Innovation is full of dilemmas, dichotomies and decisions. Paradox - defined by Wikipedia thus “a statement that, despite apparently sound rea…