February 15, 2012
February 9, 2012
David and Arvind cover eight concepts that can help cultivate a business design mindset. They are: look beyond your industry; apply rich constraints; use tangible provocations; use letters and numbers; speak to your crowd; deliver stories, not data; aim, ideate, repeat; and let go of “right.”
In a 5-page feature, IDEO partner Dana Cho and IDEO environments designer Beau Trincia show why tough economic times and emerging technologies are prompting consumers to change their buying behavior, and how smart retailers are responding with innovative in-store offerings.
...In a 5-page feature, IDEO designers Heather Emerson and Ashlea Powell show why service providers who recognize our growing desire to navigate our own experiences are on their way to greater customer satisfaction.
February 7, 2012
James Moed’s “Retail Banks Turning to Design,” is included in the Sept.-Oct. issue of Banking Today, a publication of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers. In this three-page spread, James writes about rethinking retail banking from the customers’ point of view and how international banks are recognizing good design...
January 31, 2012
At IDEO, we manage a constant stream of experimental projects designed to expand our knowledge and create new intellectual property valuable to us and our clients.
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“In order to do a better job of developing, communicating, and pursuing a strategy, the head of IDEO says, you need to learn to think like a designer. Here’s his five-point plan for how to make the leap.”
“It’s remarkable how often business strategy, the purpose of which is to direct action toward a desired outcome, leads to just the opposite: stasis and confusion. Strategy should bring clarity to an organization; it should be a signpost for showing...
IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez explores trends in business and design in his column for BusinessWeek online.
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