Designers often do all-nighters together and their creative collaboration could be compared to a jazz jam session so what type of organizational culture would best support this flow of innovative ideas?

We invited creative professionals' to share their insights on the topic and from the comments received, it was...

By now, it is well understood that design-driven corporations provide superior stock performance. Cutting though the design-hype of the highly touted outliers, companies that excel in design (as measured by the number of design awards received) outperform regular design-oriented corporations by just over six percent.

If design is such...

A famous Woody Allen quote is that "80 percent of success is just showing up." If there is any truth in this, then people who believe themselves lucky probably show up more often than people who believe themselves unlucky and therefore stay at home in their beds. Can one's perception...

Springtime has arrived in Seoul, unimpressed by the posturing of nuclear powers from near and far. One day, the first leaves suddenly emerged after a long, cold winter and within a short week, the cherry trees blossomed and the metropolis morphed from a barren concrete jungle into a flowering, exuberant,...

Food, exercise, sex and novel experiences produce endorphins that make us feel happy, sometimes even ecstatic. In much the same way, the creative economy caters to and exploits our need for novelty by constantly supplying exciting new art, architecture, design, fashion, film and music. We stay enthralled within the matrix.

Family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances rarely spark epiphanies or the sudden realization of great truths. Over time, the people we feel most comfortable with and with whom we enjoy most of our life increasingly think more like us and we like them. As a...

Failing to address what car drivers' want can be costly and alternative fuel vehicles are competing fiercely to stake out the market. Manufacturers think drivers want range, though most still commute less than 50 miles and the majority of cars on the road sleep...

Business traditionally sees certainty and control as desirable characteristics of any endeavor. Consequently, huge efforts are invested in reducing ambiguity, increasing predictability and staying in command of circumstances.

What if this inherent line of thinking is a fallacy and is actually detrimental to the sustainable progress of corporations? Could unpredictable,...

As our world has become flatter and competition hotter, design has grown increasingly international to better leverage resources across markets while cutting cost. For a layman though, it has become exceedingly hard to tell the difference between an Apple, Samsung, and Sony or Microsoft...

For over half-a-century now, the James Bond character has been a role model for men of all ages, representing, for many, their dreams, aspirations and hopes. He is an interesting hybrid of the underdog and the lone wolf who, despite all odds, takes on impossible assignments and goes through fire...

Co-written by Associate Professor Hokyoung Blake Ryu

A large part of developing innovative offerings is to correctly perceive and manage risk in the design process. The best strategy seems to be taking more risk early on in the process when exploring opportunities and then...

Strategic statements are the most powerful means for implementing organizational strategies. The stickier these mantras are --simple, unexpected, concrete, credible or emotional (as excerpted from the book, Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath) -- the better they are recalled, shared and subsequently...

Once in a while we all just go nuts and give in to some unconscious urge and begin to dance. Remembering the "Chicken Dance" (1950's), the "Macarena" (1990's) or "Gangnam Style (2010's). These types of phenomenon makes us laugh, while wriggling our bodies in...

During the past decades, everyone from corporations to governments, have begun to see the immense value of creativity in achieving progress thought innovation. After decades of cost reduction and reengineering, leaders are realizing that one cannot save oneself to greatness and no other tool in the toolbox seems to provide...

Mapping new product development execution, as characterized by actionable design quality criteria, to organizational capabilities (assets, routines, organizational architecture and culture) provides an overview over the challenging linkages and can help management match risk appetite and organizational renewal.

Purposely experimenting with new organizational designs...

Co-written by Helmut Traitler.

When open innovation took off a decade ago, the world of social media looked very different. Only a few had heard of Wiki and Google -- Skype, Facebook and Twitter had yet to be invented and most of us still...

Boys dream of one day racing super sports cars on a track or a winding mountain road, but not so much about commuting from point A to point B in the carpool lane inside an economy box car. Throughout childhood, my dream was, one day, to design and drive fast,...

We all want our lives to have meaning and engage in activities that make sense. Love, courage and accomplishment, are Viktor Frankl's proposal for a meaningful life, while values such as, standing up for what you believe in and protecting others makes sense and...

Creating a new idea and turning it into a product people need, want, or desire is part of a designer's normal workday. Acquiring the skills and eventually becoming an expert in designing products is a lifelong challenge and this crucial foundation is built in our design schools. We asked creative...

Co-written by Ab Stevels

Business models innovation can be a powerful instrument for increasing value creation and capturing by aligning organizational, culture, activities, routines and assets. However, throughout the business model creation process, focusing on profit alone will leave enormous value potential on the table.
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