Seizing the Moment: The Value of Creative Dispositions
Process helps you seek out innovation, dispositions ensure you don’t miss the opportunity when it comes your way.
01 Feb
07 Sep
Finding Your Windows and Mirrors
Building empathy & broadening perspective happens by engaging with people with different backgrounds. Melissa Wong shares how she's been thinking about it.
12 Jul
What We Learned from Our Design Sprint with Vote Run Lead
We ran a Design Sprint on a meaningful problem for an organization we’re inspired by. Here are six lessons from that experience.
26 Apr
The “What’s Innovative?” Debate: Try Using First, Best, and Only
How can we tell whether or not processes or creations are innovative?
29 Mar
Design Thinking Learning vs. Doing: Stories and Lessons from the Front Lines
Overcoming some of the harder parts of design thinking in the real world.
30 Jan
Building Ecosystems in Organizations: Lessons from Gap Inc.
How do we build thriving, innovative and strategically-minded organizations that are sustainably driven by the individuals that comprise them?
14 Sep
Design Thinking for the Next Generation
Design thinking is frequently leveraged as a tool for work—you learn the skills and apply them to your job, your projects and, ultimately, your organization. And it’s absolutely great for that! But what if building the skills and mindsets of design thinking could be used
24 Aug
Leveraging Design Thinking to Launch a Business
By: Jess Do Starting a business is like most endeavors in life—if you reflect and incorporate lessons as you go, it can be a lot easier to move forward and even find some success. [caption id="attachment_3872" align="alignleft" width="300"] Listen to this smart man! This absolutely applies to
26 Jan
Design Thinking for Impact: Acumen Global Fellows
Let’s state the obvious: driving social impact is hard. When you set out to change the world, you’re tackling BIG problems. You’re driven by ambitious goals and it can often feel impossible to achieve them. So, how do you create meaningful, sustainable solutions to the
11 Jan
Transforming Public Schools with Design Thinking
Some people don’t think of the public school system as a hotbed for innovation, but there are many creative and groundbreaking initiatives behind the scenes all over the country. In New York City, it’s the iZone, a program started by the NYC Department of Education (DOE). The