How the “silly cow” exercise helped to solve business uniqueness in Kenya
I have just returned from Kenya where I was teaching business courses with the Sauder Africa Initiative. Upon reflecting on my two amazing months in Africa, I decided to share one of the most memorable moments in one of my classes. When you teach business courses in Kenyan’s slums, there are no fancy rooms, Power […]
Going 3-D
What is it like to think visually? To imagine a process or an idea is three-dimensions? To, in a sense, experiment with a different way of communicating and generating ideas. Last Friday night was the traditional coming together of the Part-time MBAs and the Full-time MBAs at Sauder. Friday night you may ask? Yes — […]
Thinking strategies
Language is a funny thing. Labels are even funnier. In the sense that I get stuck trying to find the right language to communicate to a specific or even general audience — and I get even more stuck when I can’t seem to land on the right label. There are two specific decisions that need […]
MindLab — an idea for BC?
Back in BC. Hurrah. It is wonderful to live in another city and part of what it does is make you appreciate home. I have a back-log of blog topics. Think I’ll start with MindLab and Christian Bason. Christian was my last meeting in Copenhagen and a good one. MindLab is amazing. http://www.mind-lab.dk/en From their […]
Design Thinking on a Film
In March this year, Yuhsiu Yang and Melissa Huang of the Taipei Design Center U.S. teamed up with film makers Mu-Ming Tsai and Iris Lai of Muris Media to make a film about one of the most elusive concepts designers have come up with in the last couple of decades – Design Thinking. Even though the term […]
Teaching design thinking through gamification
We know we’re creating problems that the next generation will be left to fix, so the least we can do is to give them the skills to fix them, and yet we’re still failing on a grand scale. The good news is that we’re discovering new ways to help them work out how to do […]
Vancouver Meetup: W2 Media Cafe – Case Study in Collaboration & Design
Join Net Impact Vancouver and the Vancouver Graphic & Communication Design Meetup to hear the inside story of W2 Media Cafe. Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director, will share the history of this six-year, collaborative project, reflecting on the organizational design that went in to bringing eight non-profits together around a compelling vision. Be among the first […]
design@cbsCafé
The Copenhagen Business School is an extremely diverse institution — including lawyers, sociologists, political scientists and around 18,000 students. So perhaps I shouldn’t haven been surprised to find a cluster of people interested in the intersection of business and design. I happened to arrive in time for the design@ cbs Café. According to the invitation […]
the future of design
I like it when Monocle presents little essays on topics — like in the May 2011 issue where 5 short essay on the future of design entertain and educate us. http://www.monocle.com/Magazine/volume-05/issue-43/ The titles themselves are both fun and raise one’s curiosity: Someone please save us from the tasteless and tawdry (Tyler Brule, Editor of Monocle) […]
Sauder Africa Initiative Fundraising & Design: “How not to cold call”
Have you ever volunteered and felt that cold sweat and fear of approaching strangers when you were asked to fundraise for a good cause? Well, I am certainly one of those people. However, I love the Sauder Africa Initiative and fundraising is a very important part to achieve our ultimate goal: help Kenyan youth to […]