Tag: leadership

  • Daily work hacks with Design Thinking

    Daily work hacks with Design Thinking

    Written by Linda Neiglick and Anamika Firoz You do not have to be a designer to strengthen innovation at your workplace.   In fact, some of the best ideas come from people who look at problems differently.   We gathered a few ideas and research-based methods that you can start using right away if you wish to…

  • How do you react when you face change, uncertainty and chaos?

    How many people we have in this room? This was the first question asked in our workshop with the topic Leading through change, uncertainty and chaos. At that time I didn’t have any clue what we’re going to do in this workshop. So, there were 15 people and we were asked to divide in to…

  • The Power of Objectives – Gov Jam 2013

    I participated in the first Global Governmental Jam that was held in the fancy ICT House (pics in the end of post) in Turku on the 5th and 6th of June. The idea of the service jams was familiar to me: we were supposed to create as many prototypes of new (public) services as possible in 48 hours. The jams…

  • Service Design Breakfast #2 – Mikko-Pekka Hanski, Idean

    Figure 1. Service Design Breakfast, Idean 2012 How do emotions impact the design? How can design projects benefit from understanding the emotional rollercoaster? How can you become a better designer if you are aware of the changes in emotions throughout a project? How can you adjust your project plan based on that? In this blogpost…

  • Hey executive! A few tips to make your organization strategically agile

    “The only thing constant is change” – Heraclitus We know your job as an executive is getting tougher and tougher no matter in what business you´re in. Operating environment is getting more and more competitive, fast based, complex, turbulent and blurry. You have probably noticed that the “old” way of thinking about the strategy and…

  • Biography of Jan Carlzon, the author of the book, “Moments of truth”, published in 1987

    The title of Jan Carlzon’s book, “moment of truths” is perhaps the main reason I chose to read the book among other recommended books. The term “moment of truth” became a household name to me as far back as my past studies in Sales and Marketing at Helsinki Business College. Carlzon’s book laid emphasis to…

  • A Learning Diary or A Transformational Story Line: Flying For Leadership

    It’s a really difficult task to decide on what to write on in my first post for Laurea SID program. It has been 2 years since I first got in touch with the program and the outcomes were always beyond expectations on personal, communal and regional basis. Should I write something about the activities I…