Tag: innovation
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Natural Born Designers
The ability to design is undeniably an essential part of human intelligence. Everyone is a designer. Just like everyone is capable of creative thinking. We may not be equally talented at it but using Design Thinking tools can amplify our chances for success tremendously when working on tasks or problems at hand. Over the span…
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Making mutual funds a mutual fun
They say the best way to become a great service designer is to participate in as many service design contests and hands on happenings as possible. It was what I thought when Minna Myyryläinen, one of my SID Laurea fellow students, brought the idea to join the openfin Hack and Ideathon competition in Espoo. Finally…
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Transform Your Business Through Design Thinking
The postindustrial digital age and the emergence of the experience economy have fundamentally changed the requirements and the expectations how companies develop and deliver new services. Well-known brands like Airbnb, Mayo Clinic, Bank of America and HBO have all understood this shift and successfully utilized holistic design thinking approach to transform their business. They have…
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We Are the New Design Thinkers!
“How many of you consider yourselves as design thinkers?” asked our guest lecturer Gijs van Wulfen (Innovation Consultant and founder of FORTH Innovation method) when our SID 2014 group started the Design Thinking course. Not so many hands rose at that point, I was certainly hesitating. However, we were soon about to learn what Design…
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Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship
Innovation is all about making a difference in people life‘s, and it starts with an idea. This idea needs to resonate with customer needs, create the appropriate market attraction, find the right value network to grow, justify its financial costs and last but not least have a potential return on the investment. For that many aspects about innovative…
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A Crash Course on Creativity!
Where do ideas come from? Creativity is looked at as the engine to bring ideas, but also most of us think creativity is an epiphany, where some will get it, while others will not! What if I told that creativity is something that every one of us can learn, its only a matter to understanding…
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Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Sustainable healthy life is basic human necessity. We all want to live healthy, stay health and to be healthy. Healthcare is one of the aspects that can help us achieve the healthy living we look for as civilized modern citizens. We all imagine a healthcare system that is accessible, affordable, efficient with less human errors, less medication…
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Design Thinking For Business Innovation
Innovation has always be seen as a myth, where genius is the main ingredient for it. Unfortunately this is not the reality! Innovation can be a systematic process. The key to successful innovations is to understand where the process starts. The process starts by first understanding the current needs, the current obstacles the target audience want to overcome and then formulating insights that can guide…
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Gamification: A Quick Introduction
Games have been always known for their immersive and engaging experiences. These experiences normally challenge players to spend huge amount of time and efforts playing games, in return of gaining that sense of pleasure, mastery and progression that games generate in the player mind. Building on the strength of games, the term gamifiaciton have been…
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