Tag: Katja Tschimmel

  • Design Thinking helps you to move better when creating something new

    We had two great mind shaking days on September when Katja Tschimmel introduced us to Design Thinking (DT), the concept and toolkit for creative processes. You can call DT also a mindset: “the way of thinking and doing”. It is meant also for organisations and businesses outside design field. We had a concrete case and went through DT process…

  • Design thinking – Childs play provides competitive advantage

    What’s this all about? “You have got to be kidding me”, were my initial thoughts when I saw the boxes of Legos brought to the class room. It was 4th of September and the first contact lesson for the Design thinking course was about to begin. For someone with a background strictly from sales and…

  • 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…

  • Service Innovation and Design: A Giant Leap

    13th September 2013, my first master class on “Design Thinking and Innovation” at Laurea University and I must say What A START!!! It was a very exciting day meeting all new people and introducing each other in all different ways. For example by creating persona, empathy maps and bingo game, this made it easier for…

  • Innovation in perspective

    In our first contact session with Gijs van Wulfen and Katja Tschimmel, we experienced a lightning version of an innovation process with Design Thinking: 2 days, not even 14 hours of work. And I’ve been wondering… What about real-life innovation? Can you expect to find a great brand new solution in just a couple of…

  • The journey of Design thinking begins

    There are thousands of things that can go wrong on the path from an idea to a problem solving solution. To help with the process there are plenty of methodologies and tools to formulate, conceptualize and execute ideas into a feasible business plan. At the end, the goal is to bring the ideas to life…

  • “Doing things differently” or “Doing different things”.

    Innovation can either be doing things differently, or doing different things. Within the field of innovation people are now doing a lot of different things, but I would say its only done a little differently when speaking about areas such as “Employee driven innovation, “Service innovation”, “Sustainable innovation”, “Social innovation” and so on. This can…

  • First step: backwards

    It was the morning of our second school day at Laurea, and the coffee line was long. We sat in the cafe with a classmate and watched the line getting longer and longer. In a few minutes, we had come up with a solution to improve the situation. Or so we thought. When our first…