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10 Golden Rules of Design Thinking: Promoting collaboration and innovation in your teams
I have “talked” about Design Thinking in this blog many times as a great tool to promote innovation both at company, project and team level. There are toolkits to adapt it to social innovation projects and for educators and for social entrepreneurs. I have used it in different settings, both with students at university and in…
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Free for Download: My presentation on how to use DESIGN THINKING to Innovate for Social Change (Human-Centered Design-IDEO)
Today, I want to share with you my latest presentation describing the Human Centered Desing toolkit developed by IDEO. The methodology intends to help international development organisations, NGOs and Social Entrepreneurs to understand the Comunity needs and find innovative solutions that are at the same time economically viable. [slideshare id=9997444] For years, businesses have used…
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I believe all human beings have something unique to offer, and that the sense of purpose and happiness emerges from using our gift to help our friends, families, organizations and community to prosper. The gift can be your knowledge, experience, presence, values or your heart… Everyday, we have the opportunity to have impact in other…
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We have created a Course where you can learn to Change the Word: You can also be a Change Agent!
After working in the design and preparation of this course for about a year, the EOI Programe: “Becoming Change Agents: Values and Skills for the Future” is now launched! I am really proud of being part of this amazing course and to do it together with three international experts (Daniel Truran, Leda Scott and Gonzalo de la…
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My 10 favourite Social Innovation Practices: summary and free ebook
There are many practices and methods to facilitate Social Innovation and Collaborative Leadership that can be adapted depending to the context and needs of the specific problem we want to solve. I have mentioned and written about many of them in this blog and have received a lot of questions and interest around them. In…
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Resources: Social Innovation Articles and Reports
Here you can find some key articles and documents about Social Innovation Strategic Collaboration Between. Nonprofits and Businesses. James E. Austin. Harvard Business School http://www.utexas.edu/courses/streeter/393T19/JAustin.pdf Nambisan, S. “Platforms for Collaboration”, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2009. Howaldt, J./ Schwarz, M. “Social Innovation: Concepts, research fields and international trends”, IMO international monitoring, 2010. “Let’s hear those ideas”. The Economist.…
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30 Things You Can Do To Promote Creativity in Your Classroom
Today, I want to share with you an amazing article by Miriam Clifford, that proposes 30 things you can do to promote creativity in trainings, workshops and in class. I have tried some of them in our LABs for Change and the impact is amazing! “The concept of teaching creativity has been around for quite some…
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List of Open Innovation resources, tools, books and more
Open innovation models have become an integral part of the innovation strategies and business models of companies in recent years. Innovation is increasingly based on knowledge assets beyond the boundaries of the company and co-operation has become an important way of tapping into knowledge resources outside in order to generate new ideas and bring them…
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