Tuesday 27 September 2016
How is Untapped Creativity in Organizations Valuable? It's Buried ROI
It’s not easy to use an equation model to evaluate the validity of creative potential versus practiced creativity, but Creative Potential and Practised Creativity - Identifying Untapped Creativity in Organizations
shows you exactly how this can be done inside your organization by
quantifying several necessary practices and provides a managerial guide
to tapping this resources within a company.
Tuesday 20 September 2016
Deisgn & Innovation are Discontinuous and Yes, there is a way to harness it.
Exploratory units are an important aspect of an innovation team and Enhancing Discontinuous Innovation
defines a definitive description of what these units entail. Through a
case study of an exploratory unit in an automotive firm, the concept of
the unit is defined along with the role of its members and the way they
communicate their ideas.
Tuesday 13 September 2016
Interview with Gregory Polletta for The iGNITE Convergence Program @ Northeastern University Boston
On Tue., Sept 13th @ 12 noon Gregory Polletta will give the 1hr pre-iGNITE lecture series on Design & Innovation at Northeastern University Boston. The 1st of it's kind, this lunch time campus wide 1hr lecture series is sponsored by Northeastern University's President office, The College of Engineering's Center for High Rate Nano Manufacturing and Northeastern Design.
In conjunction with the above and in a 4 part, 4 country, interview series, Professor Polletta is this time interviewed by Eric Howard Corporate and Outreach Manager for Northeastern’s Center for High-Rate Nano Manufacturing. Gregory describes some of the challenges and successes of integrating radical design, unproven engineering and R&D Design Thinking techniques executed at some of the worlds largest firms and some of the most nimble international startups.
Tuesday's Sept 13th's, one hour lecture series is part of iGNITIATE's internationally renowned iGNITE Convergence Program running internationally since 2005. The iGNITE Program, created by Gregory Polletta in 2005 is the world's 1st fully integrated design, design thinking, new product development and innovation program - this time being delivered at Northeastern University's College of Engineering on Friday Sept 16 - Sunday Sept 18th in conjunction with the National Science Foundation and Northeastern's Center for High Rate Nano Manufacturing.
For more information on The iGNITE Program, The iGNITE Convergence Program and our international successes with the US Navy and many other international firms and government organizations visit iGNITIATE's The iGNITE Program and Change Management Successes page.
Tuesday's Sept 13th's, one hour lecture series is part of iGNITIATE's internationally renowned iGNITE Convergence Program running internationally since 2005. The iGNITE Program, created by Gregory Polletta in 2005 is the world's 1st fully integrated design, design thinking, new product development and innovation program - this time being delivered at Northeastern University's College of Engineering on Friday Sept 16 - Sunday Sept 18th in conjunction with the National Science Foundation and Northeastern's Center for High Rate Nano Manufacturing.
For more information on The iGNITE Program, The iGNITE Convergence Program and our international successes with the US Navy and many other international firms and government organizations visit iGNITIATE's The iGNITE Program and Change Management Successes page.
Tuesday 6 September 2016
Richard Branson Gets Design. Does your firm?
Why is design not synonymous with the America's? Why is it not as important as in
Europe and why are branded international design super stars,
not likely to ring with an American name?
Recently at an meeting with senior level managers at a large USA based multinational firm, the question was asked, which of these names do you recognize: Picasso, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Phillippe Starck, Charles Eames, Frank Gehry, Giorgio Armani, and about 10 others. The overwhelming score, less than 30%. Then the women in the room were asked. The score jumped to over 80%. When the names of contemporary international designers were added again, the scores where minuscule, yet again, the women scored significantly higher. Why?
In a recent interview Richard Branson details some of the reasons why design matter and who he's working with. Can the CEO and C-Level executives at your firm say the same? How embedded is the design process in how your firm conceptualizes, and launches new products? And clearly, are they any where near as integrated and sexy as Virgin? Just take a look at the typical interiors of their planes, trains and of course advertising.
Recently at an meeting with senior level managers at a large USA based multinational firm, the question was asked, which of these names do you recognize: Picasso, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Phillippe Starck, Charles Eames, Frank Gehry, Giorgio Armani, and about 10 others. The overwhelming score, less than 30%. Then the women in the room were asked. The score jumped to over 80%. When the names of contemporary international designers were added again, the scores where minuscule, yet again, the women scored significantly higher. Why?
In a recent interview Richard Branson details some of the reasons why design matter and who he's working with. Can the CEO and C-Level executives at your firm say the same? How embedded is the design process in how your firm conceptualizes, and launches new products? And clearly, are they any where near as integrated and sexy as Virgin? Just take a look at the typical interiors of their planes, trains and of course advertising.
Tuesday 30 August 2016
Low-Cost versus Innovation. Can you outsource design innovation? Yes.
Design and particularly innovation is expensive. In 2016, a typical industrial designed product costs minimum $250K to launch. Can this be minimized? Yes.
Low-Cost versus Innovation - Contrasting Outsourcing and Integration Strategies in Manufacturing is a great breakdown on two outsourcing strategies; low-cost-oriented outsourcing and innovation-oriented outsourcing. Pro’s and cons are discussed and empirical evidence evaluated at a number of firms. An excellent breakdown!
Low-Cost versus Innovation - Contrasting Outsourcing and Integration Strategies in Manufacturing is a great breakdown on two outsourcing strategies; low-cost-oriented outsourcing and innovation-oriented outsourcing. Pro’s and cons are discussed and empirical evidence evaluated at a number of firms. An excellent breakdown!
Tuesday 23 August 2016
Snowboarding to Innovation – Designing Breakthroughs When None Existed Before
How many times did your grandparents see
snowboards when they were children? Never. How about your parents? Possibly never. Design is how the slopes are full of boarders today. But How?
Now a multi billion dollar per year business Product Development and Changing Cultural Landscapes— Is Our Future in Snowboardinggives the full breakdown of how a new industry has changed the way we take our ski holidays, how we look at sport, clothes, accessories and even lifestyles. Is that an innovation? 2 ski’s to 1? Check the bank accounts of those manufacturing and product design firms that did it.
Now a multi billion dollar per year business Product Development and Changing Cultural Landscapes— Is Our Future in Snowboardinggives the full breakdown of how a new industry has changed the way we take our ski holidays, how we look at sport, clothes, accessories and even lifestyles. Is that an innovation? 2 ski’s to 1? Check the bank accounts of those manufacturing and product design firms that did it.
Tuesday 16 August 2016
Creativity + Exploiting R&D – How to Get ROI Straight Out of Design
How can you extract short-term R&D output and long term R&D
exploration of new technological goals? Focus on technological change, and
second the control of complementary assets in the dominant design.
And when that fails, innovate. Here’s how you can use Creativity for the Exploitation of R&D and the tools and techniques that foster the breakthroughs necessary to grow organizations to their fullest.
And when that fails, innovate. Here’s how you can use Creativity for the Exploitation of R&D and the tools and techniques that foster the breakthroughs necessary to grow organizations to their fullest.
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Design in the Boardroom? Yes, and Here's How
Today
an interesting article became available regarding design and the
boardroom. From the perspective of "newness" it is the design team the
defines this. Some have also argued that it comes from the marketing
team, and the sales team and yes it does. However the larger question,
and most often overlooked is for what TIME FRAME do these two
departments have influence over product offerings and to what level of
effectiveness do these teams contribute to the longevity of a firms
position in the market.
The
simple argument, the COO is responsible as CMO and CTO functions
reporting into the COO are effectively combined with design to form the
basis for timely development. HOWEVER shifts have begun to emerge in
many firms where positions such as the Head of Global Product
Development are being offered seats at the board for the simple purpose
of expanding the often limited scope of the 6mo, 1yr, and 2yr
strategic plans typical when COO, CTO and CMO discussions are had at
the board level. This ISDA article on Design in the Boardroom sets a good indication of how this is happening.
Tuesday 2 August 2016
What Makes a Design Leader: Social Intelligence + Creative Performance
But
that’s not all. It’s the synergy that glues it all togerher. The challenge
however is in fact empathy. In measuring almost 300 people, in multiple
disciplines and verticals the challenges and criteria’s became simple.
When
looking at know how an individual is feeling; what an individual is thinking;
understand the moods of people; understand people’s feelings transmitted
through nonverbal messages; know when people disguise their true feelings,
design takes on a whole other form. In What
Makes a Design Leader – Social Intelligence + Creative Performance an
entire criteria is extablished and rigerouly measured against
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