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Mining the golden years [Business Week]
Business insights from consumer culture, a top-level conference on ethnography, marketing and business
Mobile computing in high-end retail
As mobile computing becomes increasingly popular in the fashion retail industry, challenges emerge pertaining to usability, system tailoring, and enhancing the manager-client user experience. These issues were addressed at LA Promotion (a facility where selected clients can acquire products three…
Steelcase launches healthcare focused organisation
Innovation and creativity workshops at Davos World Economic Forum
Somewhat belatedly, I discovered John Thornhill’s summaries (published in the Financial Times) of the CEO workshops at January’s Davos World Economic Forum. Building a culture of innovation “The participants in this workshop [were] asked to apply design thinking to a…
Whirlpool’s push to jump-start innovation [Business Week]
Mayo Clinic’s SPARC lab gets physicians to think like designers
Digital kids series
New Berlin School of Creative Leadership
Stuff the kids [The Guardian]
The latest from GAIN, AIGA’s Journal of Business and Design
We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world [The Guardian]
With globalisation, most anticipate an inter-connected world with greater understanding of multiple cultures more than ever before. Martin Jacques, a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore, argues in The Guardian that this assumption is at…