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Ecosystems and product innovation
The rise of crowdsourcing [Wired Magazine]
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Just as distributed computing projects like…
The science of desire [Business Week]
The New York Times on brand co-creation
MIT is to make Denmark world champion in user driven innovation
Roger Martin on designing decisions
In this interview, Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management (the University of Toronto’s business school) explains why managers need to learn how to think like designers, and why all design is really decision design. The interview was…
At museums: invasion of the podcasts [New York Times]
Designing politics – the politics of design
With a commitment to conducting a discourse on the social responsibility of the designer and defining the democratic quality of design, the International Design Forum (IFG) Ulm, Germany announces its public call for project proposals addressing the topic of the…
Firms turn R&D on its head, looking outside for ideas [Boston Globe]
Defeating feature fatigue [Harvard Business Review]
Rotman Magazine on the Creative Age
How to build a better product – study people [PC Magazine]
PC Magazine just published a long feature story on how anthropology is moving into the corporation. Product development has historically been predicated on a “build it and they will come” basis. But times are changing, consumer choice is increasing and…