Tag: change

  • The Era of Disruption as an Innovation Enabler — How to Spot and Scan Trends to Kick-Start the Change?

    The Era of Disruption as an Innovation Enabler — How to Spot and Scan Trends to Kick-Start the Change?

    The future takes time to build, and each day is an opportunity to reflect on and plan for the next day From the Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation by Carleton et al. 2013 The global pandemic outbreak in spring 2020 is continuing to disrupt markets, organizations and even our behaviours. As changes, new needs,…

  • The importance of routines

    I participated on 28.5.2020 in a digital event focusing on organizational change and service design. The four-hour-event was hosted by Livework studio, an international service design company, and Delft University of Technology, technological university in Delft, Netherlands. The event had two keynote presentations. The first keynote speaker was Professor Brian Pentland from Michigan State University,…

  • My first touch with design thinking and why it was so difficult to write about it

    My first touch with design thinking and why it was so difficult to write about it

    The journey of writing this blog post I have written this blog post so many times and felt so insecure and confused what to write about. The assignment for the Design Thinking course was to read couple of articles and books and reflect on your own learnings. Over and over again, I have read my…

  • Is Design Thinking a magical cure-all?

    Change as a Challenge The internet and with it the digitization and growing technological achievements are changing our world. Of course, change is nothing new; industries and companies have to face change every day through competition and innovation. Mootee describes, all companies must endure change to survive or grow (Mootee, 2013, p.124), but the change we’ve…

  • Utopia or Dystopia? How is the Future Looking like in Service Design?

    Utopia or Dystopia? How is the Future Looking like in Service Design?

    By Salla Kuuluvainen I recently attended two events which made me think about futures thinking and it’s relation to service design and innovation. Innovation, by definition, is an act that reaches towards the future, and and engages the innovator in creating a future that may be something they wish for.. or not. How can we…

  • How might we design for change?

    “Reading aloud is an important tool to plant the love of reading in children”, said Rana Dajani explainng her idea of We Love Reading in the innovation platform: Open IDEO. We Love Reading is an initiative to hold read-aloud sessions in refugee camps that encourages women, men and youth to be leaders in their communities…

  • How do you react when you face change, uncertainty and chaos?

    How many people we have in this room? This was the first question asked in our workshop with the topic Leading through change, uncertainty and chaos. At that time I didn’t have any clue what we’re going to do in this workshop. So, there were 15 people and we were asked to divide in to…