Practices in innovation and design are evolving continually. Human-centred design has seen steep growth amongst for-profit businesses in recent years. Even the idea of stakeholder management and (do not articulate too loudly) stakeholder engagement are finding common ground. However, for-profit and for-impact organisations still engage stakeholders and beneficiaries only to evaluate findings, ideas, prototypes and…
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Though very muscled and with an attractive torso, Brando, clamped in his leg braces, was struggling to tear himself off the ground by a metal bar of a walking frame. For his first time Hollywood endeavour, The Men, he was immersed in the real world of the Birmingham Veterans Administration Hospital in California, experiencing the real life…
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Framing a need or problem is one of the most critical steps in a design project. That certainly applies when the design project is going to be executed by a multidisciplinary team. One of the reasons why this is so, we can distract from the thinking hats of Edward de Bono. These thinking hats help…
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The context of a designer such as Philippe Starck differs from that of a designer trying to build solutions to a need. Philippe Starck is a rock star designer, designing aesthetic superior objects no one needs and only a few can afford them. But even so, the process of his design endeavours has a lot…
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When you want to transform your organisation, don’t mind the culture of that organisation too much; redirect your attention to its character instead. Often, we talk about the culture of an organisation. But culture defines only how you act, not who you are or what you do. Therefore, you should focus on the more profound…
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