Design Thinking? What’s that?
“Yes, so… what does the Sauder Studio actually do? Design thinking, what’s that really about?” Very good questions. Indeed, those were the few questions I threw at my supervisor on the first day of work. Well, maybe not exactly “threw”, but those were the questions that bombarded my inquisitive mind as I started work on […]
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Conversation with Adam Kahane & Jeff Barnum [Reos]: managing labs, change and power.
Adam Kahane and Jeff Barnum play lead roles in the global change lab movement, through their organization Reos. They’re in Vancouver this week to meet with leaders in social innovation and to help launch the Belonging Lab. Moura and I met them in a small group to chat about our own change lab work, both […]
Creative Business Thinking: Week 3 + 4
Our client Michael Holm Hansen, the Director of Front-end Innovation Global R & D at Coloplast http://www.coloplast.com/ skyped in from Copenhagen — a bit late in his day. The students had many questions for him about Coloplast, its users, its business model and the type of innovation. Balder is taking the students through the double diamond […]
Dynamic new timeline tells story of Sauder Studio
Visit our History page to view the Sauder Studio story. We built the timeline using Tiki-Toki – a free online tool that you can use too!
Alumni Weekend at UBC – Little Entrepreneurs: Kids. Business. Ideas
Do you feel that you have a little Steve Jobs or Bill Gates at home? When we are young, we dream of being firefighters, doctors or lawyers. Very few of us dream of being business owners or entrepreneurs. The Sauder School’s d.studio creates new kinds of leaders who will shape the future of the business […]
Creative Business Thinking Week 2: the brain again
This week we began the session with play dough. The idea is that we do a creative warm-up each week — designed by one of the student teams. This team made their own colourful and scented play dough. We all had floods of memories around the feel and scent especially. A fun start to the […]
Creative Business Thinking: a nordic approach — Week 1
Balder and Morten have arrived! Hurrah. The idea to invite two creative and talented PhD fellows from the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) to teach at Sauder emerged last spring during my 2month stay at CBS. Balder Onarheim (a industrial designer on the left below) and Morten de Friis-Olivarius (a neuroscientist on the right below) […]
Re-inventing life in the swamp
[originally posted here] To borrow a delightful phrase from Soren Hansen and Henning Sejer-Jakobsen, one of the chief benefits of change labs for social innovation is that they allow us to lift our change process — “away from the swamp of everyday activities — routine, fear of failure, prejudice, bureaucracy and rules.” Instead, change labs offer […]