What activities develop collaborative innovation?
We talked to dozens of technologists and business development experts to identify gaps in current practice to build our Thinking x Design Program format. Participants practice concepts from the expanded field of design that can help scaffold success.
Deconstructing design thinking
Once considered a silver bullet approach to innovation, the limitations of design thinking were never given enough attention. Here we offer resources on how to critique the practice, and some terms that help non designers get a better hold on the fundamentals of design as a field of expertise.
Working materially
The built environment is everywhere, and you can leverage it to surface fast and meaningful insights.
Concepts from complex systems
We draw from management researchers and curate a short list of the most immediately useful concepts.
Scalar Framing
Though scalability is the addressed most frequently, the properties and effects of scale is an incredibly valuable technique for innovation teams.
Field work
Product research is typically informed by quantitative data about markets and consumer perspectives, or testing for usability. Ethnography is applied to some degree, but often lacks a material analysis that can directly inform the investment in products and services.
Reframing
Clients often approach the innovation process with a clear definition of success in their mind, but this can interrupt the discovery of large opportunity spaces.