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Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab was a book that fascinated me. Author Sarah Miller Caldicott, a descendant of Thomas Edison, innovation author and CEO of Power Patterns provides a look at how Edison’s collaboration methods can be used face-to-face and by virtual teams. Many of us struggle Read More …
Kansei/Affective Engineering is essentially the human side of product development. We are attempting to take customer’s feelings and convert them into our design. It is very much aligned with User Experience Design but more often used in product development firms and engineering departments versus Design firms and Web applications. More background is provided about the Read More …
Why don’t we hear about the emotional engineering discipline of Kansei? Why is that? As Design Thinking and Service Design have moved to the forefront in many organizations, we seem to have forgotten about this method. It is so unfamiliar, that I feel a need to define it first: Kansei is a Japanese term with Read More …
Michelle O’Conner, “You don’t how much fun I am having in this car?” Ian Callum, Russ Varney, Mark White and Michelle O’Connor from Jaguar’s Design and Engineering teams talk about working together to create beautiful fast cars. If your mindset evolves around Service Dominant Logic thinking, you may view value from three points; Functional, Social, Read More …
Cutting through Clutter and Competing on Clarity When I venture out to improve the sales and marketing process, these are core ingredients that I need to address for a successful outcome. The primary source for this information is from the book and handbook of Bill Jensen, Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of Read More …
A descendant of Thomas Edison, Sarah Miller Caldicott is an innovation process expert, innovation author and CEO of Power Patterns. Inspired by a family lineage of inventors dating back five generations, she has been engaged in creativity and innovation throughout her life. Sarah spent the first 15 years of her 25-year career as a Marketing Read More …