Back End Commitment: Now You Have the Idea
People who sponsor collaborative innovation challenges establish a quid pro quo with the contributors and collaborators who comprise their communities. They agree to “do something” with the ideas that resonate with the community.
What might “…
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Designing your way out of trouble with sustainable package design
Industry Intelligence, Inc. will offer a webinar on May 15 with Chris Sherwin, head of sustainability at Seymourpowell. During the webinar Chris will aim to discuss emerging themes in design, brands, and innovation for packaging sustainability, as well as discuss some of the obstacles and barriers to overcome...
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Well-travelled ideas
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The Creative Innovation Sum with gathered on 3 June 2013 thought leaders and pioneers of new digital Bauhaus in Weimar . Through inspiring lectures by renowned experts, lively panel discussions and joint workshops participants can selectively explore the prospects for their own companies, arising from the connection creative economy and technological innovations. Keynotes from Michael Conrad (President Berlin School of Creative Leadership ), John Howkins (Author , The Creative Economy: How…
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The Professional Facilitator as Innovation Catalyst
“Innovate or die,” heralds the Digital Age. The wise leader, mindful of the limits of the latter, embraces the practice of collaborative innovation as a way for their organization to pursue the former. Organizations, too, have professional facilitators on staff and on call. Working as an adjunct to the human resources function, they have remained largely absent from the dialogue around the practice. Innovation happens…
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The room was slowly filling up with the employees. One after the other they took their seats and didn’t look too pleased: the speech that I was about to be holding did interrupt the longed-for transition from their dinner to a well deserved drink at the bar! So this left me with the task to ensure that those snaring away during my talk would not animate the others to follow suit.…
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Seymourpowell invites you to join their design trends discussion
What design trends stood out to you the most from your experience at Milan or from Seymourpowell’s report? Is the experience the people or the products? Does it work as an international club – and is this good or bad?
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Language Is Killing Our Ability To Innovate
There are many inventions whose origins we simply cannot trace. One glaringly obvious, yet equally elusive innovation is that of the spoken word. Before we had language, we made sense of the world through pictures, sounds, and smells. Humans estimated time…
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Das Mitarbeiterengagement entscheidet über Kundenerlebnis & Geschäftserfolg
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Seymourpowell Loves London

Seymourpowell team member Yana Zalesskaya talks about her favorite places around London.
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SPTV: Milan in perspective 2013
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Fertile Ground for the Ideation Seed
Depending on the people involved, their motivations, and the phase of the moon, you may or may not find fertile ground for the practice of collaborative innovation.
In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores…
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Seymourpowell visits San Francisco
Seymourpowell design researcher, Sonia Wang, visited the city of San Francisco recently. She visited an array of companies including: Heath Ceramics, Sightglass Coffee Roasters, Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, …
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The issues of relying solely on 'Big Data'
As the information economy grows, 'Big Data' is seemingly the answer to all of our problems. Though a powerful tool to use, 'Big Data' requires an interpretation to decipher the 'why' behind the numbers.
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Seymourpowell staff photographed by Rosie Collins
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Design insights by Richard Seymour: Chicken Nugget Deluxe
Richard Seymour discusses his approach to design. He describes finding inspiration from components found everywhere, going so far as to design a brassiere based on the flexible yet durable sternum of a chicken.
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New dispense suit for Guinness by Seymourpowell
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system failure
Our world is a system that contains many sub-systems: the oceans, the forests, the climate – all are complex, fragile and well calibrated organisms with a system character. If one of the parts is not running well, the others will suffer as well: one weak spot will influences the overall performance. Systems can repair themselves, once they are not running well – unless the weak spot is getting larger than the…
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The CFO: the Innovator’s Best Friend
The front end of innovation offers organizations engagement. Engaged people bring more of their gifts to the table. The back end of innovation offers organizations ideas that, when implemented, bring relative advantage. Each idea has its own story of relative advantage and risk. How do you tell the back end story in a valid, credible way?
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February 19, 2013 to June 30, 2013 – Online submission
China has unique, flourishing markets that are comprised of a diverse group of people with strikingly distinct lifestyles and preferences. In order to compete in the Chinese market, designs have to b…
Organized by Vivian Jin | Type: noprofit, global, design, contest
0 Comments 1 PromotionJune 19, 2013 from 6pm to 9pm – Central Saint Martins School of Arts and Design // Granary Building
A fusion of industry panel and insights exchange, the event will bring together London's creative minds to explore their process of IGNITION across seven areas of innovation: Design, Business Models,…
Organized by ual: University of the Arts London // MA Innovation Management | Type: industry, panel, and, insights, exchange
0 Comments 1 PromotionJune 24, 2013 to July 5, 2013 – Parsons, New York, USA and Central Saint Martins, London, England
In 2013, Dual City crosses the Atlantic Ocean with an exciting new series of international short courses linking two world class cities and iconic institutions: Parsons The New School for Design and…
Organized by The Dual City Summer Sessions | Type: international, short, courses, in, art, and, design
0 Comments 1 PromotionJune 24, 2013 at 9am to August 2, 2013 at 5pm – London, England and Milan, Italy
London - Milan the Dual City Summer Sessions with Chelsea College of Art & Design and Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) It could never be denied that London and Milan are synonymous with great…
Organized by The Dual City Summer Sessions | Type: art, and, design, summer, short, courses, in, europe
0 Comments 1 PromotionJune 24, 2013 at 9am to July 18, 2013 at 4pm – London, England and Istanbul, Turkey
Starting in Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design weave department you will create your own fabric samples using a table-top loom which you will take to Istanbul to print on, with other…
Organized by The Dual City Summer Sessions | Type: summer, textile, design, course, (weave, &, print)
0 Comments 0 PromotionsJune 28, 2013 all day – Cologne
http://www.floriandieterle.de/images/pdf/Design-Thinking-Workshop_28-6-2013.pdf Workshop in Cologne June 28th Early bird conditions end June 7th
Organized by Florian Dieterle | Type: workshop
0 Comments 0 PromotionsJuly 1, 2013 to July 26, 2013 – Wimbledon College of Art in London & ELISAVA in Barcelona
This course is ideal for anyone interested in pursuing theatre design. Through a progressive series of workshops, you will respond to a narrative through story boarding and model making to develop yo…
Organized by The Dual City Summer Sessions @ CCW | Type: art, and, design, summer, short, course, in, europe
0 Comments 1 PromotionJuly 1, 2013 at 9am to July 26, 2013 at 5pm – London, England and Barcelona, Spain
London - Barcelona the Dual City Summer Sessions with Chelsea College of Art & Design and ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design of Engineering London and Barcelona are both world-famous for art and…
Organized by The Dual City Summer Sessions | Type: art, and, design, summer, short, courses, in, europe
0 Comments 0 PromotionsJuly 1, 2013 at 5pm to July 5, 2013 at 9pm – Elisava Barcelona
Social Change, Innovation and Companies For the last five years we have been facing many changes and challenges in every field all over Europe. Especially in the Mediterranean, we constantly see stra…
Organized by Jorge Rodriguez - MiDi & MaDE | Type: a, week, full, of, design, thinking, )
0 Comments 1 PromotionSeptember 8, 2013 to September 10, 2013 – Mayo Clinic
Transform is the conference for thought-provoking and inspiring ideas - held this year September 8 - 10, 2013, in Rochester, Minn. A multidisciplinary event focused on innovation and design solutions…
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