A visit to MindLab: the essence of innovation
I was lucky enough to spend 90 minutes visiting Christian Bason, Director of Innovation, at MindLab on a frosty day in Copenhagen last week. Through the Sauder d.studio, Professor Moura Quayle and I have been invited to help shape a proposal for a new social innovation “change lab” in British Columbia with the B.C. Advisory Council […]
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 […]
Service Design: Small But Quickly Expanding
When we think design, we often think of the designing of products, of tangible goods. But this product-dominant way of thinking, according to designer, researcher and educator Lucy Kimbell, is about to change. Design thinking could significantly benefit services, the providing of labour and material aids needed by the public. Though it is currently a […]
Innovate BC
On Friday November 25, 500 or so people gathered to talk about ‘Collective Impact through Social Innovation”
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 […]
Celebrate Learning Week at UBC
Time to focus on our core mandate — learning. It’s also a time when we display our Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant posters for people to see what we have been up to on the learning innovation side of things. Here is the Sauder Studio poster for this year — designed and executed by […]
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 […]
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 […]