Category: SID methods

  • There is no way round play

    There is no way round play

    How playing is a big part of change by design

  • How do we get a great idea?

    Well, finding the answer to that question is probably worth a fortune, but after our first course – design thinking- of the SID Laurea programme I have a much better picture of how to facilitate and enhance idea creation. In a few days a group of strangers became not merely acquainted with principles of innovation…

  • Turning to Design Thinking for New Ways to Create Innovation and Growth

    Participating in a two-day master class on Design Thinking (DT), taught by Innovation Consultant Gijs van Wulfen and Design Professor Katja Tschimmel, marked the starting point of my studies in the 2014 SID MBA group at Laurea UAS and also served as a great reminder of why earlier this year, I felt the need to…

  • Designing is about doing, not talking!

    “Design is all about action, and business too often gets stuck at the talking stage. Uncertainty comes with the territory when business objective is growth. But that doesn’t mean that you are powerless to do anything about it. You can’t make it go away, but you can manage it rather than allow it to manage…

  • Designers: Think BIG! … but also BEYOND and GLOCAL

    Designers: Think BIG! … but also BEYOND and GLOCAL

    Tim Brown, in his book Change by Design (100% recommended), urges a global change by what he calls Design Thinking. Tim proposes to the world a new way to face the upcoming challenges, the small but also the big ones. A new way of redesigning the world. He offers a tool usable for every person…

  • 3 lessons in innovation that changed my way of thinking

    Have you ever heard that you should learn one new thing a day? Well one September day I was lucky to learn three interesting new things that changed my way of thinking. I attended an intensive course held by Design Thinking gurus Gijs van Wulfen and Katja Tschimmel. Design Thinking offers a process to transform…

  • Design thinking – Snake oil of today?

    What is this mumbojambo? So, what is Design Thinking. To answer the question, let’s start with the facts. It’s: – a collaborative and participatory process – a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary process – a protocol for problem solving and discovering new opportunities – not a linear but an iterative process Is Design Thinking a new fab?…

  • I’m in Service Design Heaven!

    Yes, of course. This makes sense. I want to test this asap. SID program’s Design Thinking session in September 2014 by Katja Tschimmel and Gijs van Wulfen made me realize something I had unconsciously incubated – and to desire further information. Think if we could learn to love our challenges and transform them into innovation…

  • You cannot innovate alone!

    You’ve got a great idea, now what? How to get innovation off the ground in your company?   “You can invent alone, but you can’t innovated alone.” – Gijs van Wulfen   In the first course of our Service Innovation and Design studies we got to tackle the fascinating subject Design Thinking in an innovation…

  • Efficient Experiences

    With current trends for downsizing and automation, it is easy to see why customers would find services to be impersonal, maybe even unpleasant. Vantaa City Library decided to turn the trend to a different direction. By systematically using codesign, and by at the same time opening up its service processes, the library managed to significantly…