by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 17, 2025 | Design Thinking, Innovation
So in January 2025, an article called What comes after Design Thinking? piqued my interest. As a long-term practitioner of (and educator about) Design Thinking, I was initially concerned the piece would be full of some kind of pseudo-fashionable tedium with...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 15, 2025 | 21st Century Skills, Best Practices, Collaborative Learning
For decades, businesses have relied on the VUCA model (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) to describe our fast-changing world. Today, all that uncertainty has only deepened. Futurist Jamais Cascio argues that a different framework, known as BANI (Brittle,...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 13, 2025 | Creativity, Innovation, Strategy
AI is getting really good at creative problem-solving – so good, in fact, that it’s starting to take over many jobs. Need a new product idea? AI can generate thousands of concepts in seconds. Struggling with a design? AI will draft ten options before you’ve...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 12, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Best Practices, Innovation, Strategy
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, evolving from a tool for operational efficiency into a cornerstone of strategic decision-making. Businesses are no longer just using AI to automate tasks – AI is reshaping innovation strategies,...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jan 31, 2025 | Conferences, Hackathons, Innovation
They say that every startup needs a hacker, a hipster and a hustler. The hacker to build your technology. The hipster to make that great tech shine. And a hustler to package up and sell it. We find that it is these three roles – the holy trinity of the startup...
