Listening to this great podcast today I found myself wishing I lived in Palo Alto and wondering about the ‘fork in my road’ where I was forced to choose Science (useful) over Art (useless). Since I have been out of the ‘rat race’ I have really enjoyed oscillating between dreaming and doing, arty and tasky, playing and geeking. A lot of the thinks talked about by Tim and Bill resonated deep inside me – some of my thoughts:
Empathy – yep, I used to curse my over-sensitivity to what everybody else did / felt
T-shaped people – reminds me of why I never really fitted in at work
Design Thinking – reckon that’s what Dave and I do naturally
Prototyping for Innovation – oh yes, that’s what I have been doing since 1990, and getting quite good at it. That’s the secret to the innovation in the old MSFT Innovation Centre
“We have severe attention deficit disorder in our organization,” quipped IDEO CEO and Co-Founder Tim Brown during a panel discussion called “Design Thinking Out Loud: Exploring Innovation and Creativity with IDEO” at the Palo Alto Art Center on June 21st. “We’re consistently looking for new design problems,” Brown said. He and Founder Bill Moggridge were interviewed by Geoffrey Moore, Managing Director at TCG Advisors, at an invitation-only opening to the exhibition, “IDEO Prototypes the Future” at the Palo Alto Art Center.
Fang – Mike Seyfang – Innovation Nobody
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