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A gift from Adobe
Happy New Year to all RGD members and our DesignThinkers blog readers. RGD and Adobe want to thank you for your support for this forum. In the past few months, we have focused on topics from the DesignThinkers 2010 conference … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Technology
Tagged Adobe Acrobat, Business, Design thinking, Productivity
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DesignThinkers expands its horizons beyond portfolios to focus on ideas and dialogue
As someone who has been part of the DesignThinkers conferences from the very beginning – including participating in the planning when I was president of RGD Ontario – it has been interesting to witness the evolution of this event, especially … Continue reading
Dalhousie Medical School brings design thinking into its strategic planning process for the first time
When I arrived at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine just over a year ago, my first task was to deliver a strategic plan for one of Canada’s leading medical schools – a complex organization of more than 1,700 faculty and … Continue reading
Posted in Business
Tagged Design thinking, Roger Martin, Rotman School of Management, Strategic planning
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Design Thinking – more important now than ever
The first page of the program for DesignThinkers 2010 proclaims that “Design thinking has never been more important.” I could not agree more with that sentiment. And I would also go a step further to say that the annual conference … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Professional development
Tagged Business, Design, Design thinking
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Converting your clients into design thinkers
For design thinking to really succeed, it’s not enough today for designers alone to be the design thinkers. After all, that’s what we are trained to do. More challenging is helping clients – who may come from a variety of … Continue reading
DesignThinkers – the ultimate ‘connection’ to inspiring ideas
We have so many ways to ‘keep in touch’ instantaneously today, thanks to the web, mobile phones, email, text messaging, intranets – the list just keeps growing. It’s all great, of course. But to me, nothing compares with hearing someone … Continue reading
Thanks for making DesignThinkers 2010 a hit
Our annual DesignThinkers conference has concluded for another year and I am thrilled to say that the 2010 event was an overwhelming success. We had our largest attendance to date, with more than 1,300 delegates from across Canada and even … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design issues, Professional development
Tagged Business, Design thinking, strategy
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Driving the creative process forward
The creative process, as many of you have certainly discovered, can bog down fast amid the diverse and often pressing business concerns that exist within the commercial environments we inhabit. To keep the creative process moving in the right direction … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Design issues, Professional development
Tagged Chris Chapman, Creativity, Design thinking, strategy
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DesignThinking offers the next big advantage for business
Businesses say they want to innovate – yet most make the mistake of relying exclusively on analytical thinking when it comes to decision-making and strategy, says Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management. His advice to businesses … Continue reading
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