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 […]
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 […]
2012 Business weapon of choice: Design Thinking
Design thinking is a growing trend in the business world. I feel that this topic is ready to be incorporated into Comm101, as design thinking skills can essentially be transferred into every subject. Design thinking is not something for students to simply learn and regurgitate – it changes the way a student learns altogether. […]
Paper can speak!
Ted Talks Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality Filmed 2011 Posted 2012 This video is a speech made by Kelli Anderson about her experience, work, and goals as a modern designer. She believes that people often confine the regular but do not explore other possibilities. She believes that the world is full of order, logic, and […]
d.studio week 13: final climate smart review
Sauder commerce undergrads never cease to amaze me with their talent, commitment and creativity. At least the ones that choose to be part of the d.studio exhibit these traits. Last Wednesday was the final studio where we invited the CEOs of the 5 business that the students worked with during the major project of term […]
d.studio week 11: prototyping a revised B.Comm.
The students in the d.studio never cease to amaze me. I feel energized by their presence. Week 11 was going to be a “studio-time” for their projects but an opportunity arose for them to help the Sauder Business School in its process of imagining a revised Bachelor of Commerce Program. The committee working on this […]
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 […]
the journey is the reward + a simple solution
Just finished listening to the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. My first experience with audible.com. What a revelation for me as to how I retain information. By listening to the book I caught every word and seemed to remember stories and ideas and concepts much more than I do when I read a book. […]