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 […]
Techniques Toolkit – Strategy Canvas
For the techniques toolkit, I recommend introducing both the strategy canvas and the 4 actions framework proposed in the book “Blue Ocean Strategy”. Similar to the business canvas, the strategy canvas looks to see how a company can capitalize on a market by creating blue oceans, or competing in open market space. The strategy canvas […]
Mini-Assignment 2
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Choose Your Lens.
Why do some people choose to view life through rose-coloured glasses? A bit weird aren’t they – those unnaturally happy people who practically bounce when they walk and have rainbows oozing out from between their lips when they smile. Although a very simplified version, science and research has now given us insight into the brains […]
Mini Assignment: TED Talk- Stefon Harris on “There are no mistakes on the bandstand”
Video Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/stefon_harris_there_are_no_mistakes_on_the_bandstand.html Here is a visual representation I made of the Ted Talk.
Colour my World – with Hats
How many project groups have I participated in during my time at Sauder? 4? 8? 10? How many of those groups have make a commitment to attempt to strive for creative thinking? 1? 2? dStudio gave me the opportunity to be in a class full of 25+ other likeminded students. Students who were hunger to […]
Find it. Find yours.
Design and creativity are undeniably linked. They are an old married couple. Sometimes it is hard to satisfy the needs of both, but often, they stand for the same principles. There has been much research around creativity: the causes, the catalyst, the benefits, the applications, etc. The conclusion? Creativity as unique as a user’s fingerprint. […]
Mini Assignment: TED Talk- Derek Sivers on “Keep Your Goals to Yourself”
Video Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself.html I chose this TED talk because I found it very interesting- it is counterintuitive to the “togetherness” environment and energy of the D-Studio. I disagree with this speaker. Sivers advocates that we should not tell other people about our goals. When we tell people about our goals, people congratulate us and have a […]