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eicolab: design thinking for business innovation
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Thoughts, musings and ideas on bringing creativity and humanity to business practice. Innovation and authenticity = sustainable differentiation. Changing the world through changing the way we think about and do business. Business is personal!
Recent Posts
Language mastery and innovation
Hypothesis: if a culture does not possess an absolutely fluent command of at least one language, creativity may be impeded. The two main communication methods in most brainstorming sessions are drawing/writing and talking. A picture may be worth a th...
How to do a million good deeds
Three students, a iPhone app, 15,000 people inspired to do a small good deed a day. Subscribers to the free application are prompted daily with a “DoGood”–a simple task from conserving water, to turning out a light, to beautifying t...
Deliberate or unwise image choice?
This is one half of a two-page spread Nokia ad in the November issue of Monocle magazine. What an odd choice of image given the strap-line shown on the phone screen. Why is the technology actively getting in the way of me making a connection with (...
Sensitivity to subtleties
I noticed today that I could often tell whether a CD jewel case is empty or not just by picking it up. A CD only weighs around 15g, against the almost 100g of a complete package with booklet. I think we often take for granted our sensitivity to subtl...
Corporate culture and happiness
Summarised from Working for Happiness by Alex Frankel. Over two years, journalist Alex Frenkel worked a diverse range of jobs to explore the connection between corporate culture and happiness at work – UPS, Starbucks, Gap, Enterprise and an Apple S...
Tengu riverside
Part of the riverside complex at Tengu, China. 2008....
