Tag: innovation

  • Killing the Inner Critic – How Logic Can Destroy the Design Thinking Process

    Let’s start with a thought experiment. You have been working in the same job for years and now you are tasked with creating a new service for your customers. Where do you start? Probably where you already are. Your first ideas are what have always been done and how to improve them, but only slightly.…

  • Future of Service Design – does it exist?

    Ever thought about this? Is service design just one ism, which comes like a wave: First small, getting strong and then fading away. When reaching the end of its existing curve, the ism is so worn out that no-one even wants to hear the words “service design”. Aalto University Executive Education arranged on the 1st…

  • At the Footprints of Nobel Winners – Cambridge Venture Camp 2017

    Hello, We are three Master´s Degree students from Laurea Tikkurila where we are studying in a program called “Future Studies and Customer Oriented Services”. Last autumn we participated in a course ”Digitaalisen palvelun käyttäjäkeskeinen suunnittelu” and there we started to develop a business idea for a digital application called ”Big Steps for Little People”, and with that…

  • Building strong customer experience

    Kirsi Heikel, the host crystallized the idea of the seminar: Strong customer experience- easier said than done. The seminar was held at Aalto University School of Business on the 16th of March. I was invited to the seminar as an alumni and speaker of the Service Design course organized by Aalto Pro –Aalto University of…

  • NBF16 – my takeaways

    Last year I attended Nordic Business Forum 2015 thru the live stream and it was an amazing experience. I was so stoked that had to buy a NBF16 seminar pass right away –  I wanted to experience it physically, to hear the keynote speakers live, meet people and be part of the buzz. Now, after digesting…

  • Will Design Thinking disrupt Education?

    Chances are if you didn’t go to design school (or don’t have a career in design) you believe you have absolutely no clue what Design Thinking is. But when one starts analysing how they create solutions, they are likely to recognise similarities with this now superpop method. Innovation by Design Thinking follows patterns similar to…

  • Can Design Thinking Provide the Breakthroughs We Need to Reduce Global Poverty and Domestic Violence?

    Can Design Thinking Provide the Breakthroughs We Need to Reduce Global Poverty and Domestic Violence?

    Design thinking can help us eliminate extreme poverty, save millions more lives, inform and educate better, promote human rights more widely, and protect much more of the natural world… if funding agencies are willing to accept the same levels of ambiguity and uncertainty that designer must.

  • Unleash Your Inner Beast

    Be empathetic, gather courage and nurture creativity to make Breakthroughs. I would like to Thank our energetic lecturer Katja Tschimmel for sharing her knowledge and experiences on Design Thinking. Thank to Virpi Kaartti for providing great support during the Study and Thank to all my fellow students for such an amazing ongoing experience.  This blog is…

  • Feel the Energy of Shaking Minds

    We had pleasure to participate on two day design thinking (DT) study module. These days were full of innovative thinking instructed by two lovely ladies from Portugal; Dr. Katja Tschimmel (Design Professor, ESAD Portugal, developer of DT model EVOLUTION 6² ) and Mariana Valenca (Lecturer in Design thinking, ESAD Portugal). They started with introducing some…

  • Design Thinking – just another buzzword?

    Nowadays service design is a hot topic everywhere. What is behind the word design, that gets easily associated with luxury and high price. How is it linked with building better services?  Little ironically to the association, the roots of design lay firmly on the ground of functionality, simplicity and purpose. In the book Design Thinking…