Book Review The Service Innovation Handbook
By Zhenyu (Sherry) Xue – 2016 Mitacs Globalink intern at UBC d.studio After reading Business Model Generation, I got my second reading assignment—The Service Innovation Handbook. Equipped with basic knowledge about strategic design, I began my deeper exploration into service innovation. The Service Innovation Handbook is a useful guide for service organizations to think and […]
Launch of UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Back to school! And at UBC, we are launching our new Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs. The world is in the midst of major and rapid transformation: dramatic technological change, instability in the system of globalization, dramatic rise of emerging powers and rebalancing of power, increased presence of systemic risk, climate crisis and […]
UBC Design Challenge: the art and science of solution making
Society needs new ways to find solutions to complex, wicked, systemic problems. Similarly, universities need new ways to engage students and faculty in co-creating useful solutions with external partners (academia, business, government, non-profit, and citizen leaders) while building capacity for real-world, creative problem-solving and providing sustainable benefits to students. In addition, employers are demanding not […]
Expo Innovation Challenge: Milan Oct 9-11, 2015
There are no shortage of opportunities to engage in challenges these days — one in particular has come onto my radar screen because I am going to attend, give a workshop and float around the challenge as a mentor for one day. This particular challenge is in Milan Italy. Here is the link:Expo Innovation Challenge […]
The Studio Summit: Copenhagen Business School
Angele and I attended the first Studio Summit at the Copenhagen Business School at the end of August. The Summit gathered together around 25 participants who teach in some form of studio in business schools, theatres, engineering programs and other interesting locations. Of course, we ran the Summit like a studio. The first day we […]
d.studio reflections on the Fall 2013 lululemon studio
The d.studio hummed last term with two major projects for the B. Comm students — one section tackled a business model project for the Pacific Newspaper Group. The other section engaged with a series of projects from lululemon. I was honoured and delighted to have Nancy Richardson join me each Wednesday afternoon for three hours […]
Dublin City Beta Projects
DUBLIN CITY BETA PROJECTS http://dubcitybeta.wordpress.com/ Beta Projects. Trials. Demos. Pilots. Seems like the way to go these days to minimize risk and maximize potential to test ideas, to prototype them and learn very specifically what works and what doesn’t. The Dublin City Beta Project is an example of the city’s suite of innovative ideas to […]
Resilience: Investing in Youth, Disruptive Learning Environments
Last week was “resilience” week in my life. Tuesday night we were at Robson Square for “Community-based Resilience: Front-Line Storiesfrom US & Canada. We were fortunate to have Mary Rowe visiting from the Municipal Arts Society of New York (MASNY). I called Mary the “doyenne of resilience” — she has taken MASNY from being simply […]
Leading Cities Summit: Day 1 Dublin
The World Class Cities Partnership is re-branding. Hurrah! We are now “Leading Cities” — and now we need a tag-line. But more importantly, we just met in Dublin for 3 days. There were representatives from the following Cities (from universities and from the Cities themselves — often Deputy Mayors or Councillors). The cities represented this […]
New MBA Module: Business in Society: Indigenous Leadership & the Culture of Engagement
Tomorrow is the launch of an inaugural four-day Business in Society Module in the Full-time MBA Program at Sauder. The topic is “Indigneous Leadership and the Culture of Engagement”. James Tansey from ISIS, Rick Colbourne from the Ch’nook Program at Sauder and I are leading this four-day module. Learning Objectives: Students will be able to: […]