Tag: co-creation

  • Learning Design thinking – did I do it right?

    That was my main concern during the Design Thinking course. Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença familiarized us with practical Design Thinking. Katja gave us introduction to design thinking, its background, literature and visual models for design thinking process. We familiarized ourselves better with The Mindshake Design thinking model: Evolution 62. The two days of studying…

  • Design Thinking big bang!

    “Here was a curious thing. My friend’s instinct told him the North End was a good place, and his social statistics confirmed it. But everything he had learned as a physical planner about what is good for people and good for cities neighbourhoods, everything that made him an expert, told him the North End had…

  • Getting in the mood for Design Thinking

    As far as Design Thinking goes, I must confess to being quite the “newbie”. Having only recently been enlightened to the magical world of service design, innovation and co-creation, I was excited to learn of the many different models that the design thinking world has to offer. Katja Tschimmel describes the similarities and differences of…

  • Design Thinking – from brain errors to innovations

    Have you ever been in a situation when you know your business isn’t going as smoothly as it should? You know that something should be done but you don’t know where to start or can’t identify the business problems or the customers’ needs? How do you feel about failure as a part of innovating? Have…

  • Playfull innovation

    Play has evolved as an advantageous and necessary aspect of behaviour. Why is it then that we so often leave it on other side of the office door? (Michlewski & Buchanan, 2016) The power of Design Thinking Design Thinking is as a creative way of thinking which leads to transformation and evolution of new forms…

  • Hackathon Kickstart / Day 1

    On 21st of January Futurice and Kiinteistömaailma organized Service Design Hackathon in Helsinki. I get to participate first time in my life for such a happening. It is all very exciting, as I never heard of “Hackathon” before! Young creative and business minded people have arrived to Annakatu 32, to building called “Kamppi´s top end”.…

  • How soft is business ecosystem creation?

    Electric vehicles (EV) seem to be the only reasonable future replacement for what we call car today. Everyone seems to agree on that. Still, the amount of EVs on the streets is still quite close to peanuts. The reason for that is the lack of a supporting service ecosystem, i.e. the fact that the “tipping…

  • Public and Private Sector into Cooperation for Better Services and Innovations

    I attended a seminar organised by CIDe Cluster Finland in Laurea´s Tikkurila campus. CIDe Cluster is a joint project of Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Vantaan Innovaatioinstituutti Oy (Innovation Institute of Vantaa, Inc.). It focuses on the development of products and services promoting good care and rehabilitation. CIDe Cluster brings together health care and…

  • Collectively ‘Thinking Design’

    ..my experience.. Starting studies after a decade…years of work life and now back again to a student life! Was not sure what to expect and get from the SID master’s program starting on the morning of 4th September 2015 with ‘Design Thinking’ A very exciting day to begin, students around full of inspiration, motivated, energized…

  • #Generate, #dream, #take risks, #inspire

    Design Thinking offers a variety of new ways to accelerate the creative process. During the first contact session at the SID program we were immersed in the world of Design Thinking with an intense two-day workshop held by guest lecturers Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valença. BRAINSTORMING is a widely spread idea generation tool that can…