Tag: current topics

  • Digitalization has to be lead in organizations – but how?

    On 30th September I had the chance to participate an event organized by PRY (Projektiyhdistys ), which is the local Finnish association belonging to IPMA (International Project Management Association). IPMA is known for its project management certification system. The purpose of this theme event of digitalization was to get introduced to methods and lessons that can…

  • Revisiting Design Thinking

    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…

  • Invention Cycle – How to bring your ideas to life

    In the very first day of SID program, I spent evening after the course getting inspired by Tina Seelig, a Stanford University Professor and co-director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. The forum was Aalto Design Factory’s series of Thought Leaders’ Talks. Tina has been recognized as a national leader in engineering education and she…

  • 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…

  • The Course for Human-Centered Design: How Might We Enable More Young People to Become Social Entrepreneurs?

    The Course for Human-Centered Design (provided by Ideo.org and +Acumen) is a seven-week curriculum, which introduces the concepts of human-centered design and how this approach can be used to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change.  This course has been developed to educate those, who are brand new to human-centered design. No prior…

  • Fastest Prototypers in the West (well, North actually)

    The opportunity to hone my service design skills came again when I signed up for the Fast Prototyping Competition. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t even read the description, I just signed up as I knew that it would be a good experience and a great challenge. Probably because I didn’t read the description, I…

  • The Near Future of Retail – bridging physical and digital worlds

    The Near Future of Retail – bridging physical and digital worlds

    According to EuroCis 2015 “customers are looking for the ultimate customer journey across all channels”. The 4.0 shopping experience looks “smart, convenient and fully networked” from “at home or at store, off or online”(1). At the end of February 2015 trade visitors from over 60 countries gathered at Düsseldorf in Germany to fetch information from…

  • Experiences from the Global Service Jam Helsinki 2015

    Global Service Jam is a yearly event enabling anyone interested in service design and design thinking to co-create, experiment and develop new solutions inspired by a shared theme.  This year, the Jam was arranged in 100 cities during the weekend of February 27th – March 1st all around the world. In the Jam, the participants…

  • What would Marc Stickdorn do?

    Doing not talking Just 3 short weeks after our Service Processes and Methods course was the Global Service Jam 2015. What a blast…and what an excuse to bring out the shiny new tools that Marc gave us. I don’t know about anyone else from the SID programme but I was able to utilise both the…

  • Helsinki Service Design Jam – Case study: Ice to the eskimos

    Helsinki Service Design Jam – Case study: Ice to the eskimos

    The past weekend, I participated the Helsinki Service Design Jam at Laurea Leppävaara Campus in Espoo Finland. The event was a part of the Global Service Jam, which is one of the biggest service design and design thinking events in the world, taking place in 100 cities around the globe.