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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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?
In…
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Materials Technology: an interview with Marcus Fairs
Seymourpowell has interviewed Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs who speaks about affordable 3D printing and scanning. Apart from that, Marcus…
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Applied Design Thinking for a Social Project
Applied Design Thinking for a Social Project
At our Master of Design (MDes) course, we recently had the opportunity to work with a live project to learn and practice design thinking skills. It's the full report about our project and therefore a bit lengthy. Have fun flicking through...
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We're hiring a service designer!
Things are going well at Koos HQ. This means we're growing and we're hiring!
Are you the one genius service designer who will enrich our team with all your skills, competences and personality?
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Koos is hiring a service designer
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Designed By Removal: The Invention Of The Baseball Hand Signal & How A Deaf Man Changed The Game Forever
Like an epidemic, a baseball craze hit New York City in the summer of 1865. Suddenly, a game played only in the streets by factory workers was being called a “national pastime” by local journalists. Baseball was bringing…
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Two Years at the Coalface: A Miner Reflects
For two years our columnist Doug Collins has shared with us his exploration of the practice of collaborative innovation.
Today, at this anniversary, we announce the release of volume 2 of his Innovation Architecture series, an exciting and deeply thought-provoking book whose cover is depicted in the headline graphic for this…
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Design Through Humility
Have you ever wondered why children pick up on things so quickly? Think of it, they learn an entire language with no previous knowledge of communication. Whereas with adults, it often takes years to comprehend a new concept.
Adult’s inability to learn comes from our ingrained attitude and past experience. What prevents people from learning is not the subject itself, but the rigidity we accumulate from past experience. This could manifest itself in the form of superiority whenever we…
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Engineering For Change
Engineering for Change provides a forum to connect, collaborate, solve challenges and share knowledge among a growing community of engineers, technologists, social scientists, NGOs, local governments and community advocates, who are dedicated to improving the quality of life all over the world.…
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Pre-Milan fair 2013
Watch a special pre-Milan Fair review featuring Carl de Smet, Belgian designer and engineer, who creates self assembling furniture. The key feature of his technique is the ability to grow from compact form to a pre defined design in several minutes.…
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The New Industrial Revolution: 3D printing and rapid prototyping
Matthew Cockerill, Associate Design Director at Seymourpowell, shared his views on the democratization of product development highlighting the opportunities of 3D printing and affordable 3D printers.
''3D printing is evolving but its output at this point is mainly suitable for rapid prototyping. It’s good for getting parts you’ve created in 3D CAD into a physical form without expensive tooling or days of…
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The Drum Design 100 2013
Good news: 'The Drum' has ranked Seymourpowell number two in the client poll of the 2013 design 100. To find more information on The Drum Design100 visit their …
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The Art of Concealment
Seymourpowell’s design and CMF researcher Chloe Amos-Edkins and design researcher Sarah Johnson appeared in January’s edition of Interior Design Today. Their report below reveals some key trends in storage which has them thinking inside and outside the box.
With the overwhelming amount of ‘stuff’ people now possess, consumers are suffering from a sense of overloading of stuff, information and…
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Analysing the Characteristics of a Business Model
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The Impact of Designed Products on Sustainability
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Listen to consumers – or ignore them?
Dr Kevin McFarthing recently commented in his Innovation Fixer blog about the debate between innovating with or without consumers’ ideas in mind.…
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Better Living through Collaborative Innovation
Organizations big and small have begun to explore the practice of collaborative innovation as a way to increase engagement and to foment a culture of innovation. Let’s say you work for such an organization. What’s the quid pro quo when you find yourself part of the crowd from which wisdom is sought?
In this…
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Why Design and Technology Education Matters
At the fourteenth Design and Technology Excellence Awards, held on Friday 8th March at the IET London, Dick Powell, co-founder and design director at Seymourpowell, made a passionate and compelling case for why design and technology education is so important and why the current draft Design and Technology programme of study poses such a huge threat...…
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I'm working towards my Master thesis with Design ROI as the focus. So , How can the value of design be proved by demonstrating the ROI?I know design is used to differentiate and entice users and it would be invariably hard to pin down it's value but…Continue
Tags: Innovation, ROI, Design, Business
Started by ricardojdc. Last reply by Lyden Foust Apr 7. 28 Replies 2 Promotions
This discussion follows from my interest in the fields of design thinking / service design and the perception that my country lacks such services. My immediate reaction was: "why not starting such a business?"However, some worries (in no particular…Continue
Started by Arne van Oosterom. Last reply by Richard Hewitt Jul 27, 2012. 26 Replies 7 Promotions
The 'market' will stay. The need for companies to reach that market will stay. But methods will change.Could design thinking be a new marketing method? Marketing 2.0? Will design thinking be integrated within the more traditional methods? Or will…Continue
Started by Arne van Oosterom. Last reply by Daniel Weiss Sep 3, 2011. 22 Replies 1 Promotion
WENOVSKI is a new network of creative minds... but there are so many other network. Is there something valuable we can add? A design thinkers event? Projects/ cases to collaborate on?Let's put our minds together.Tell me: What would be useful to you?…Continue
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 PromotionMay 26, 2013 all day – Shoreditch
DesignThinkers UK has proposed a FREE StartUpLab workshop at this years Digital Shoreditch Festival - "From Design Thinking to Doing Business" will be a hands-on Co-Creation Session focused on discov…
Organized by James Rock | Type: training, workshop
0 Comments 0 PromotionsJune 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 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…
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0 Comments 0 PromotionsSeptember 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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