Reflection 4: Putting the Team in Teamwork
We can all agree that being a student at the Sauder School of Business is a challenging role to play. You’re expected to perform at a consistently high academic level, while participating in extra-curricular activities and grooming your resume for the inevitable post-graduation job hunt. For the most part, each student expected this when they […]
d.studio week 10: improv hits the studio
Sometimes it is time to wing it. To improvise. And get the energy flowing. This week in the studio Florin, our intrepid teaching assistant, took on the role of “improv” innovator. He even got a bit academic: Why improv? When participants are able to break free from cognitive, emotional, and behavioural bounds of socially […]
Design Thinking: Outside of the d.studio
Hi guys, As some of you touched on, people always ask say, “Whoa, that classroom look cool! What do you do?” There is no exact or obvious answer, because we- d.studio students- do a lot of different activities in and outside of the classroom. After listing out activities such as listening to entrepreneurs, working with […]
d.studio week 9: Daved Barry visits from Copenhagen Business School
Sauder has a strategic alliance with the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). This means that we go way beyond the typical Memorandum of Understanding which can often (not always) just mean that institution x will cooperate with institution y and send a few students or faculty members on exchange. The strategic alliance has both business schools […]
d.studio week 8: six thinking hats + conditions for creativity
Playing catch up. Week 8 (almost two weeks ago!) followed the reading break week — which of course necessitated getting us all back in gear. One of the challenges of having the studio only once a week is momentum and the feeling that you have to pack a lot into 3 hours. On the other […]
d.studio week 7: perceptual blocks to creativity
What stands between us and our creative selves? This week we reviewed some perceptual blocks from one of my all-time favourite books by James Adams: Conceptual Blockbusting. Used some of the exercises as a studio warm-up. Blocks discussed were: Stereotyping – Seeing What you Expect to See…e.g. think of how we used to relate hair-length […]
d.studio week 6: Climate Smart Business
What business has worked with 550 small and medium size businesses, 49,000 employees and saved 416,000 tonnes of C02? Answer: Climate Smart. https://climatesmartbusiness.com/ This week in the d.studio students were taken through a “short-form” of the training session that Climate Smart Businesses receive when they sign-up for the program that helps them lighten their footprints and […]
d.studio week 5: Ask.Try.Do
It was time to review the process: Ask.Try.Do. And, importantly, experience it in a short time. So we spent the afternoon designing the experience of the visitor to the Sauder Building Opening Celebration on March 1. In a way it was the perfect opportunity to put Ask.Try.Do into action on a problem that was close […]
d.studio week 4: the CEOs return…
What do Paul Lambert, Eesmyal Santos-Brault, Winnie Lai, Lindsay Watt, Colin Doylend, Amelia Ufford, Steve Rio and Octav Druta have in common? They are all CEOs of exciting new companies. And they generously shared their time and expertise with students from the Sauder d.studio. The idea of the project was to provide the students with […]
d.studio week 3: Eye Phone
Warm-ups are critical in the d.studio — students are coming from accounting classes or operations classes where their analytical, convergent thinking skills are in high gear. I want them to transition to a balanced environment. In week 2, students did a free write. And this week they were plunged into drawing — but not “artistic, […]