Change by design
by Brown, Tim · first published 2009
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The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. In reality, most innovations are borne from rigor and discipline. Breakthrough ideas-whether for a new bicycle, an advertising campaign, a treatment plan for diabetes, or a program aimed at tackling the national obesity epidemic-emerge not by chance, but by studying and embracing the immediate challenges we encounter every day in our offices and homes, laboratories and hospitals, classrooms and conference rooms, and in all the spaces in between. We don't simply realize solutions; we design them. In thi
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For those interested, IDEO's CEO, Tim Brown, has written an interesting book entitled "Change by Design".
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on “Ask HN: What are the most inspiring books on leadership?” ↗…people could work on collaborative notebooks, correct each other's mistakes, etc. We needed to have the finger on the pulse and talk with users (on Slack in our case). There's a book by Tim Brown titled "Change By Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation"[2]. We built a lot of custom machine learning products for enterprise, and one way to think about this is in terms of "Feasibility,…
on “Ask HN: How to make Product Management decisions?” ↗…to Solve Big Problems and Sell Solutions Like Top Strategy Consultants". I only skimmed the table of contents for now and seen the authors talk about it, and it looks like what we do with clients. - "Change by Design" by Tim Brown. There are many useful concepts in there, but that also describes our approach, especially when they talk about "desirability, feasibility, viability". Finding the right questions to ask,…
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