Tag: innovation

  • 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…

  • Design Thinking, the secret of business innovation

    Remember that feeling of inadequacy in art class at school for ‘not being creative enough’? I do. To this day I’ve thought that I’m simply not cut out for being creative. And then, about a month ago while attending Katja Tschimmel and Mariana Valenca’s course, I finally realised I too can be creative. That’s when…

  • Playing it healthy in Laurea Game Jam

    Last weekend I had the opportunity to focus on something I had never done before – producing an actual game from scratch. Laurea Game Jam (25th – 27th September) brought together know-how from programming, health and concept design to make games for adopting healthier lifestyle. One weekend and little less than 30 participants in five teams resulted…

  • Humanity above bureaucracy drives results

    Humanity above bureaucracy drives results

    I participated to the Future of Work seminar which was held this month at Hanken International Business School in Helsinki. It is time for new solutions says Buurtzorg`s establisher Jos de Blok. Keeping old working models and trying to improve efficiency has come to the end. Why Buurtzorg? Jos de Blok had a long history…

  • 4 interesting things I learned from service productisation

    If somebody had said in 1984 that he had a vision of people watching Formula 1 from their phones in 2014, he would have been considered mentally ill. In 1994 he could have been hired into a start-up-firm going bankrupt later that year. In 2004 this idea had already landed on Steve Jobs’ office desk.…

  • Four tips to prevent innovator’s block

    How to get the ideas flow? What if the others think our idea is lame? What if we fail? These are some of the reasons why people struggle with innovation and I have also find myself pondering these same questions. “Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.” -Marty Rubin I…

  • Designing is about doing, not talking!

    “Design is all about action, and business too often gets stuck at the talking stage. Uncertainty comes with the territory when business objective is growth. But that doesn’t mean that you are powerless to do anything about it. You can’t make it go away, but you can manage it rather than allow it to manage…

  • 3 lessons in innovation that changed my way of thinking

    Have you ever heard that you should learn one new thing a day? Well one September day I was lucky to learn three interesting new things that changed my way of thinking. I attended an intensive course held by Design Thinking gurus Gijs van Wulfen and Katja Tschimmel. Design Thinking offers a process to transform…

  • You cannot innovate alone!

    You’ve got a great idea, now what? How to get innovation off the ground in your company?   “You can invent alone, but you can’t innovated alone.” – Gijs van Wulfen   In the first course of our Service Innovation and Design studies we got to tackle the fascinating subject Design Thinking in an innovation…