by Jeff | Sep 17, 2017 | Flow, Flow Book, Product Development Flow
Reinertsen spends a lot of time in his books talking about calculating the cost of delay. He does this for two reasons: First, he rightly argues that decision-making in product development should be based in economics. Second, nearly every action in development...
by Jeff | Aug 27, 2017 | Change by Design Book
Change By Design, Chapter 7: Design Thinking Meets the Corporation, or Teaching To Fish Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, says he gets asked this question all. the. time.: “How do I make my team/company/organization/life/dog/cat/fish more innovative?” This guy has got to hate...
by Jeff | Aug 27, 2017 | Change by Design Book
Here is a good short nugget from Tim Brown’s Change by Design, Chapter 3. When IDEO needs to do some convergent thinking and narrow in on a few concepts from a possible universe of many, here’s what they do: Put the concepts on the wall Arm everyone with post-it notes...
by Jeff | Aug 25, 2017 | Change by Design Book, Change by Design Book Post
Chapter 3 of Change by Design is called “A Mental Matrix” or “These people have no process!” The Design Thinker’s Process: Inspiration, Ideation, and Implementation Brown describes the Design Thinker moving through three major processes:...
by Jeff | Aug 25, 2017 | Change by Design Book
Chapter 2 of Change By Design is called “Converting Need into Demand, or Putting People First.” “Certain themes and variations – techniques of observation, principles of empathy, and efforts to move beyond the individual – can all be thought of as ways of...
