Category: SID methods

  • New School Techniques and the Innovation Magic Box

    Day One in School The roll call begins Itziar, Predrag, Cagri, Mervi, Haana, Ida and of course my name Titikshya a tongue twister in the list  … The day starts with so many new names, felt like it would take ages to remember all faces and names … but know what our Design thinking lecturers had in their Magic Box new methods and techniques in introducing each…

  • Creating solutions with Design Thinking

    Today customers are expecting solutions from businesses and we have to be able to provide those to them, not just by guessing and assuming what they would like to have but to creating those with them. With our visitor lecturers, founder of FORTH innovation method Gijs van Wulfen and Design Professor and Entrepreneur in Creative…

  • “Out of the Box and Then Back in Again” – The ABC of Design Thinking

    How many ways of using a pen could you come up with in two minutes? I managed to write down 10. Actually that’s not very creative. Some people can easily think of even 20 or more ways. They are more trained in Design Thinking. We, the SID group of 2013, started our Service Innovation and…

  • The journey of Design thinking begins

    There are thousands of things that can go wrong on the path from an idea to a problem solving solution. To help with the process there are plenty of methodologies and tools to formulate, conceptualize and execute ideas into a feasible business plan. At the end, the goal is to bring the ideas to life…

  • Failures are possibilities

    Me and 27 other students were privileged to start the Service Innovation and Design Master’s program last September in Laurea University of Applied Sciences. Our first course was about Design Thinking held by Katja Tschimmel a Design professor and an entrepreneur, and Gijs van Wulfen the writer of the excellent book “The Innovation Expedition”. How many things…

  • Work and play – a possible combination?

    I have always been puzzled by my somewhat selective memory. It seems that for exams at the University I was always able to remember the way the page looked, instead of the text that I should have remembered since I read the book. So, after a lot of trial and error I have come to…

  • “Doing things differently” or “Doing different things”.

    Innovation can either be doing things differently, or doing different things. Within the field of innovation people are now doing a lot of different things, but I would say its only done a little differently when speaking about areas such as “Employee driven innovation, “Service innovation”, “Sustainable innovation”, “Social innovation” and so on. This can…

  • To Facilitate or to Innovate?

    It wasn’t any given normal day it was the very second day for the Service Innovation and Design studies at Laurea. We’re all gathered up in our class room. Our lecturers and facilitators Gijs van Wulfen and Prof. Katja Tschimmel for this two day’s Design Thinking course were presented to us. Unlike normally lecturers would…

  • The Rabbit Hole of Design Thinking

    Professor and researcher Katja Tschimmel and ideation facilitator Gijs van Wulfen showed us where the Rabbit Hole of Design Thinking is. So I also jumped in it, dug together with fellows hands on for two full days – and we are still digging. The more we explore, the more we find. This post is about what…

  • Besign Thinking: A simple framework for incorporating “Design Thinking” into the traditional “Business Thinking” for innovation!

    Ever since I got introduced to the concept of Design Thinking, I had this feeling that this could be a game changer for how we do our business innovations. In a nutshell, because it starts with the customer as sole for finding innovations. This may be obvious for anyone knowing about Design Thinking fundamentals, but…