d.studio week 1
Launching the 2012 d.studio — COMM 486J for Sauder undergraduates. In catch-up mode — it is week 3 and here I am just blogging about Week 1. That’s what happens when you take 5 days out to go to Maui! This year it is exciting — we are occupying an actual studio space (albeit not […]
Re-thinking undergraduate business education
The Copenhagen Round Table was an opportunity to reflect on the future of undergraduate business education. UBC Sauder School of Business and the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) have formed what we are calling a “strategic alliance” — in other words — beyond the generic Memorandum of Understanding towards something real and meaningful. So much so […]
Prof. Larry Leifer: Dancing with Ambiguity
Prof. Larry Leifer, Stanford University Dancing with Ambiguity: Embracing the Tension between Innovation and Decision-making in the Design Process Abstract: Over the past thirty years, a powerful methodology for innovation has emerged. It integrates human, business and technical factors in problem forming, solving and design: “Design-Thinking.” This human-centric philosophy integrates expertise from the design, social, […]
Christian Bason: The MindLab Approach
Christian Bason: The MindLab Approach How to Co-Create for Innovation Ever thought government could be run better and be more innovative? Then join us for a discussion on innovation in the public sector with Christian Bason. Christian is Director of MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also the author of three […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If the 4th graders can achieve this, what can business students accomplish?
I do not usually watch the TED Talk videos. However, in my spare time, I browse the World Wide Web for new ideas and by accident, I stumbled upon the talk of John Hunter on the World Peace Game. Teacher and musician John Hunter is the inventor of the mentioned World Peace Game. „The game […]