What is innovation? The term is everywhere, but what does it actually mean to innovate? The lexical root of innovation is nouvos, or new. The Oxford English Dictionary defines innovation as: innovation |ˌinəˈvāSHən| noun the action or process of innovating. • a new method, idea, product, etc.: technological innovations designed to save energy. Wikipedia, always […]
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2013/05 Seth Godin | Backwards from CreativeMornings on Vimeo. One of the most remarkable tools we have is the Internet powered by personal computers or tablets. There is nothing that generates more power to transform than these two tools taken together. When you step back and notice, it’s easy to see how these tools create
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Following our last post on defining design, here are some of the definitions currently in use to describe design thinking. There are far fewer examples of what design thinking is and many examples of what it is not. Perhaps this is one of the reasons design thinking is often contested in various circles. > Design
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On Tuesday November 26th, the team at Pivot Design Group and fellow organizers are hosting Design Meets…Public Policy in Toronto. Tuesday’s event is the latest in a series of meet-up style design-oriented events that combine brief presentations from subject matter experts and a lot of discussion on the role of design thinking in shaping the
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What is design? Design lays at the heart of any endeavour to create something with intention. One of the best and most concise definitions comes from Greg Van Alstyne at the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCADU: “Design is creation for reproduction” At essence of this definition is the intent to develop a plan —
