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Archive for January, 2006
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GREAT videocasts about LEGO & Pine & other……
Mark just linked me to a great site about experience economy and design processes. It’s a MUST resource for the many of us, really great and with some thoughtful links an resources too.
I just read an article there about experience economy and creating sense/meaning. It refers to the development of an innovation or an experience concept which involves a process of thinking, doing and reflecting. It states that both parties can certainly work together in this process, and they will book more success through their collaboration than either one could do individually.
Important in this regard are four building blocks that the article find in the work of Prahalad and Ramaswamy (2004). They speak of the DART principle:
1. Dialogue
Dialogue means interactivity, being engaged with each other and listening to eachother. Both parties (supplier and customer) intend to accomplish something. It also means that attention is given to the interests of both parties. This requires both a location in which the dialogue can take place and a number of rules with which both parties must comply in order to be able to hold a useful dialogue. The principle of ‘learning by sharing’ holds here: the company learns through the dialogue with the customer and vice versa.
2. Access
The traditional focus
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Let’s face it - we’re all sweating a little: Product and service commoditization are forcing strong price competition - squeezing margins and motivating us to tighten our belts. In the midst of “the squeeze”, it’s harder than ever before to deliver increa
I will be going to LIFT in Geneva next week on the 2nd and 3rd of February. Its now sold out and im very excited about being there.
“LIFT is about teaming talented observers, explorers, and builders with people whose work depends on understanding current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. Attendees will face cutting edge business models, bold predictions, radical thinking — ideas to inject into their own part of the planet.”
I’m currently very interested in a few talks like the one on intellectual property with new technologies by Cory Doctorow, then Stefano Mastrogiacomo’s talk about how management and technology can live in the same company. Thoman Sevcik has an interesting talk about how “themeparks, think tanks and big companies collide” and of course Régine Débatty from we-make-money-not-art will be speaking. To come back to the subject of China Marc Japerrouza will be talking about whether China can control the internet or emerging technologies. Co-Creation will be adressed by Chris Lawyer which definitely relates to my own experience at the London Design Council.
I will be attempting a live blog of it…hmm not used to this… Hope to meet some CPH 127 pilots or readers there!
I’m a heavy Flickr user and have over a few iteration re-discovered the possibilities in sharing photos. It’s amazing how easy it is to use, connect and share networks of interest.
Since New Year I’ve been working on a major innovation project for one of the truly market leaders in the food ingredients industry. As part of the project I’m considering using Flickr as an Anthropological tool, but I’m nor aware of the constraints or great possibilities, but can see a huge potential in using it..
Do you have any experience in doing so? Wanna share? How should I design this? Is it valid?
By the way – I see that Cheskin claims they invented Digital ethnography as a methodology. Did they really?
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Innovation: The Next New Thing; we can learn a lot from software
One of the themes at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos (January 25-29) is "the creative imperative." As German Chancellor Angela Merkel explained in her keynote address, citizens must have the freedom and ability to translate innovative ideas into action. By allowing the creative imperative to flourish, a society encourages innovation, which in turns leads to prosperity and societal well-being.
A number of weblogs are keeping tabs on the event, including the World Economic Forum blog (featuring podcasts with innovative thinkers like Sergey Brin of Google), George Polk’s blog at the Financial Times, a blog from an AP reporter and Bruce Nussbaum’s design blog. There’s also a great blog post about the creative imperative from Fast Company called What’s the Key to Creativity?
So is this "creative imperative" something that people will act on once they return home from Davos?
In a few months from now the CPH127-community will have 1 year anniversary. Since the very beginning we aimed for a broad approach to design, innovation and leadership. I think we succeeded, didn’t we?
But one of the problems I think al great weblogs are facing is the hidden content. Every weblog has a achieve-section but how often do YOU really use this section?
The reason why I’m asking this is because I recently got an e-mail from one of the readers of CPH127 – he asked me if I could help him finding a post from last spring about Doblins 10 types of Innovation. I did of course find it but it raised a question in my mind about starting reposting some of the old “stuff” – would that be a good idea or is it only me that has the need to refresh my mind sometimes?
Or is their another format who could make it as a catch-up?
Please let me know?
Since I left my position at the Danish Design Centre I’ve been working with userdriven innovationprocesses at ReD Associates in Copenhagen.
As part of their process in using mapping latent user needs I’ve been studying several articles about context mapping as part of field research work.
I do of course know of the task, but I’m not an Anthropologist, neither have I studied ethnographic’s.
If you work with these processes please share what you do, how you do it.
During the weekend I’ve been reading several articles on the topic
, and as mentioned before F.Sleeswijk Visser et al. have done a really good job in explaining the different stages and phases.
I’ve done a drawing on how F.Sleeswijk sees the different phases where you can see the involvement from different stakeholders.
Does it cover what you experience in your daily work?