Tag: current topics

  • CULTIVATING RESILIENCE, A RAY OF HOPE

    Ups & downs… but they remain… resilience is not the result… they were already like that… they discontinue their activity… but they rise again, like the phoenix… result of their true alignment with their mission and values … they can just not help it. Fragility is a constant in small to medium NGOs, that have…

  • WELL DESIGNED BUSINESS

    How well your business adapts to changes? The world is in constant change. Design knowledge is a vital competence in making companies ready to face changes in their environment. Design`s starting point should always be customers and their needs. Design thinking helps forecast the future and develop organization`s operations to be more flexible, resilient and…

  • Purpose and unity as a corner stones of future work

    Antilooppi and Alma organized a seminar called work life 2022, where operators and influencers from different fields of business shared their vision of the future of work. The topic is interesting and If something, it’s definitely current. Before Covid19-pandemics flexible working was already every day living for some, but pandemics made it reality for all.…

  • Diving Into the World of Design Thinking

    “Now I want you all to introduce yourselves, but this time you will do it differently.” – this is how our Design Thinking course started and little did we know what will follow afterwards. To present ourselves we were divided into groups, where each of us had to first, speak about her/himself, second, count one…

  • Self-organizing organizations and well-being

    Tampere University and The Finnish work environment fund has studied self-guiding organizations from occupational well-being point of view. The study drilled into topics like: On what level is employee’s well-being in organizations that have no management? What is the common stress factor in self organizing companies? Which ways of working would support employee’s well-being?  Study…

  • Future at work: What are the new skills service designers will need?

    A webinar by Perttu Pölönen, futurist, inventor and author. When thinking about the future, we might assume that the skills we need to have will be related to AI, Robotics, Coding, and everything involving technology, however, Perttu Pölönen has a different view on the skills of the future. The question he posed to everyone during…

  • Innovation and human centered design in the fight against HIV and AIDS

    The International AIDS conferece, AIDS2020Virtual was organized 6-10 July 2020. Thousands of scientists, activists, policy makers, people living with HIV and others came together to share the newest information on HIV and AIDS. I attended the virtual conference and in this post I will discuss one of the sessions on human centered design. Innovation has…

  • MyData 2017 – Health Profile Hackathon

    MyData 2017 – Health Profile Hackathon

    Juha-Pekka Ahvenainen, Markus Alavaikko, Markus Torkkeli The National Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) is a state agency that promotes the wellbeing and health of the population, prevents diseases and social problems, and develops social and health services. It also is the statutory statistical authority in health and welfare in Finland maintaining a knowledge base…

  • 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…

  • Robot Ethics, Emphatic AI and The Importance of Multiple Perspectives

    In her keynote speech in Interaction16 conference Mrs. Kate Darling from MIT Media Lab opened up a topic of social robotics. She started by reviewing common concerns that humans currently have – that robots will take over the world and eliminate human race. This concern was quickly dismissed by showing the state-of-the-art robots autonomously playing…