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If you ever get the chance to hear Sir Kenneth Robinson speak, take it. Arguably one of the best public speakers in the world, he...

"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that." --...

Eight out of ten new product introductions fail. Of the two that make it through, eight out of ten of those fail in year two. These are dismal statistics and point to an...

Design thinking... what is that? I have this image of Allen Samuels permanently emblazoned on my brain. This goes back to college. With his usual amazing energy and...

Designers are everywhere these days. The profession like many others, has become extremely portable. Designers are often in situation learning about consumer and user experiences. Working...

Design conferences are enjoyable and effective venues for networking. It was great  to catch up with old friends and colleauges at the IIT strategy conference in Chicago recently. The...

On conference stages and in print recently many have declared and forcefully written that; creativity will become the driving engine for this new economy. Like "Knowledge" before it, and...

Sorry all regarding the delay in activity, I have been away.  Back to regular blogging directly. Here's a  starter. In a recent conversation with a close colleague, Craig Briggs, who is...

One way creativity can apply to every situation faced is to make a protocol of running a problem through a filter of crashing disparate influences. If everytime we are faced...