Can elephants dance? What do solopreneurs have that your company can’t compete with? Why are Youtube stars coming up with million dollar launches for products that would normally emerge from your design department? In this era of unprecedented change, it feels like all incumbents, big and small, are vulnerable to two college dropouts in a…
Old wine in new bottles d.school describes the Design Thinking process as five steps: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. IDEO has a shorter three step process: Inspiration, Ideation and Implementation. Nevertheless, the two process definitions are very similar. Both d.school and IDEO were founded by David Kelley and many individuals have worked for both…
Complete transformation “We have been undergoing a complete transformation into a design-like culture.” Lorna Feeney, Co-Chief Creative Officer at IBM Interactive Experience IBM made Design Thinking central to its culture in 2013. Since then IBM has assembled more than 1,600 formally trained designers globally. They claim this is the largest corporate design team in the…
Machine learning Google’s introduction to machine learning (ML) course begins with a brief video with Peter Norvig describing what he learned about ML since joining Google in 2001 as their Director of Machine Learning. Norvig describes the important benefits of ML and its ability to simplify tasks for programmers. No longer do they need to…