Tag: Thinking outside the box

  • Letting go of your prejudices (while staying inside that thinking box)

    Letting go of your prejudices (while staying inside that thinking box)

    by Miia Lemola & Ekaterina Nikitina Design Thinking workshop and concomitant readings have given us a lot of inspiration. However, it has also activated inner critics in us. We would like to share our thoughts about prejudices and limitations in creative thinking. Creativity – a gift or a skill?   In the workshop, we were thrown…

  • Innovation versus an intern’s comfort zone

    I met Christopher Fabian, co-lead of UNICEF’s Innovation Unit at New York Headquarters, in spring 2012 in Finland. He was one of the panelists at the conference “Zombie Innovations or True Development” organized by Aalto University. During the conference I realized how close the subject was to my Master’s Study Programme in Service Innovation and…