Category: SID trends
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Revisiting Design Thinking
In autumn 2009 Tim Brown published his influential book ‘Change by Design’, an introduction to Design Thinking for business leaders. Shortly thereafter, in early 2010, I read it for the first time while studying in a post-graduate course at the HPI School of Design Thinking. Now, five years later, I am studying Design Thinking again…
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Service Design enables functioning urban environments
In Helsinki Design Week 2015 I attended City Design Meet-Up on 7th September, an open event arranged by Design Driven City (carrying the legacy of the design capital year 2012) and Forum Virium Helsinki. What is the so called new design? What common elements are there in traditional industrial design (such as Kaj Franck’s drinking glasses) and in the…
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Develop fast – use Lean method!
I wrote in my earlier blog that innovation processes take time. If you want to develop a really innovative – and a radical – new service, you need time. According to FORTH innovation method an average time for an innovation development process is 16-20 weeks. http://www.toolshero.com/forth-innovation-method/ However, definition of innovation is tricky. This we learned during…
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4 interesting things I learned from service productisation
If somebody had said in 1984 that he had a vision of people watching Formula 1 from their phones in 2014, he would have been considered mentally ill. In 1994 he could have been hired into a start-up-firm going bankrupt later that year. In 2004 this idea had already landed on Steve Jobs’ office desk.…
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Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship
Innovation is all about making a difference in people life‘s, and it starts with an idea. This idea needs to resonate with customer needs, create the appropriate market attraction, find the right value network to grow, justify its financial costs and last but not least have a potential return on the investment. For that many aspects about innovative…
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A Crash Course on Creativity!
Where do ideas come from? Creativity is looked at as the engine to bring ideas, but also most of us think creativity is an epiphany, where some will get it, while others will not! What if I told that creativity is something that every one of us can learn, its only a matter to understanding…
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Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Sustainable healthy life is basic human necessity. We all want to live healthy, stay health and to be healthy. Healthcare is one of the aspects that can help us achieve the healthy living we look for as civilized modern citizens. We all imagine a healthcare system that is accessible, affordable, efficient with less human errors, less medication…
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Gamification: A Quick Introduction
Games have been always known for their immersive and engaging experiences. These experiences normally challenge players to spend huge amount of time and efforts playing games, in return of gaining that sense of pleasure, mastery and progression that games generate in the player mind. Building on the strength of games, the term gamifiaciton have been…
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Adapt Lean and take a step ahead and see the difference
The Day starts with Lean Market Entry Lecture by Olla sundell CEO of Hub Helsinki. LeanThinking being the agenda of the day everything around was supposed to be Lean. Lean methodology is what I have learnt after being part of this service design industry. This topic has been one of my personal favorites. Lean is a…
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