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October 3, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

3 Months of Design Thinking Workshops and Seminars!

3Q2012 The 3rd Quarter (July to September) of 2012 was just an awesome time here at Design Sojourn. We were engaged to run a number of Design Driven Innovation and Design Thinking workshops, and it was...

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September 13, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

I will be at the D.Confestival in Potsdam to Co-Facilitate a Workshop!

I am really excited to announced that I will be at the D.Confestival in Potsdam Germany from the 20th to 22th of September 2012! More information after the jump....

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September 4, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 5: Now Updated!

We are now accepting applications for our 5th Introduction to Design Thinking workshop. I’m also happy to say that the workshop has been updated with new awesome content. We live and breath Design Thinking, so we took in the feedback and validation by...

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August 28, 2012 In Design Leadership, Entrepreneurship

VCs Fund Startups with No Ideas – A Perverse take on the Design Thinking Process

I'm not sure if I should jump for joy, laugh or cry? Perhaps I should just sit dumbfounded. Forbes recently reported a new trend in Silicon Valley; Venture Capitalists are now funding Start-Ups with no idea what they are going to do. Sounds like...

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July 9, 2012 In Design Leadership

Jugaad, or Frugal, Innovation is not really Innovation

jugaad innovation I agree. I frequently work with small to medium sized businesses (including boot-strapping start-ups) and have to adopt a similar frugal mindset. Sometimes these quick solutions can create value that can go a long way. ...

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June 25, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

Join our Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 4

Our 4th Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 4 is finally back! Though slightly delayed (we skipped our last one due to some administrative matters), we are now never more ready to facilitate 2 days of awesome design...

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May 17, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

I'll be presenting at the next Pecha Kucha Singapore 2012!

I'm going to be presenting at the 4th Pecha Kucha Night here in Singapore and speaking about "How design makes people's lives better". ...

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April 11, 2012 In Design Leadership

Design is a Connector in Business

Ton Borsboom, my ex-colleague at GE/Fitch (a General Electric and Fitch joint venture in Asia), and now Senior Director at Philips Design Consulting, shares his view about how design and designers need to be connectors in today's business by reaching across all touch points and...

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April 10, 2012 In Design Leadership, Entrepreneurship

Businesses should Tell a Story and Plant Many Seeds

Guy Kawasaki, at a Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture Series at Stamford, shares insights on why start-up businesses should tell a story and plant many seeds. I believe that any company (not just start-ups) interested in getting their...

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April 2, 2012 In Design Leadership

Go Ahead, Design the New Business

Oh how did I miss this? The Design the New Business documentary, aired first in Asia at the recent Design Film Festival 2011, is now available online and shamelessly embedded here. ...

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February 20, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

Time for our 3rd Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop!

It's time for our 3rd bi-monthly Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop! It will be on the 29-30th of March 2011. Here is the usual blurb with the e-mailer at the end, so do sign up as soon as possible as seats are limited...

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January 26, 2012 In About Design Sojourn

Design Thinking in Manufacturing, A Workshop Series

I'm really excited to finally be able to announce an exciting project that we have been passionately working on since August last year (2011)! Design Sojourn was commissioned by Design Singapore,...

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November 3, 2011 In Industrial Design

The Time it Takes for Innovation at Heinz Worries Me

Image by Martin F. Ramin for The Wall Street Journal It was reported by the Wall Street Journal that the executives at Heinz spent 3 years developing a new larger ketchup...

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October 25, 2011 In Design Leadership

Implementing Design Thinking 1: Focus on the Outcome not the Process

One of the challenges of implementing Design Thinking is that Design Thinking can come across as a rather intellectual and academic exercise. Strange terminologies, divergent activities, new processes etc; who can blame them for thinking...

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October 24, 2011 In Articles, Design Leadership

Implementing Design Thinking: A Blog Series

I was actually quite surprised to find myself deep undercover in Design Thinking activities in the last 12 months. The great thing was that these activities were varied, spanning from running Design Thinking workshops, developing...

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October 21, 2011 In About Design Sojourn

Our Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop is Back!

Encourage by great feedback and awesome participants, we will be running our 2nd Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop on the 1st and 2nd of December 2011! The workshop will be run in a...

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October 19, 2011 In About Design Sojourn

Design Sojourn Consulting: 1 Year On

October 2011, by Tess Sammarco Image: October 2011, by Tess Sammarco How time flies? It has already been just over a year since I left my cushy (well not that cushy) corporate job...

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September 23, 2011 In Design Leadership

Design Management vs. Design Thinking

While preparing for our Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop next week, I stumbled over a nice little infographic by Prof. Ralf Beuker, that clearly spells out the relationship between Design, Design...

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August 19, 2011 In Design Process, Industrial Design

Adding A Human Touch to the Future of Mobile Experiences

Amid Moradganjeh, a Masters student at the Umeå Institute of Design, dropped me an email with a link to his thesis project done in collaboration with Microsoft. Rimino, is a next generation mobile device interface concept that wants to be...

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August 15, 2011 In About Design Sojourn

Sign up for our: "An Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop" NOW!

Registration Closes on the 23rd September 2011. Do hurry as spaces are filling up! It's official. With the backing of the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i), which focuses on improving skills, productivity and the...

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