Scaling Innovation throughout Business—and the World: The Ten Types of Innovation
Brian Quinn, Associate Partner, Doblin, Inc.; Ryan Pikkel, Design Strategist and Researcher, Doblin, Inc.

This video was originally presented at the 2011 "Design at Scale" conference in New York City. Find out more about this year's conference.
 

 
Back in 1998, Chicago-based innovation consultancy Doblin developed the Ten Types of Innovation. Since then, this deceptively simple framework has helped thousands of companies to think about their innovation activities in a new light, illuminating potential opportunities and framing useful ways to develop new ideas. Of course, a lot has changed in the past 15 years. Brian Quinn and Ryan Pikkel present the all-new version of a tool you can use on each and every innovation and design challenge.
 
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DMI Design/Management Annual 37
October 23-25, 2012
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City
 
CO-CHAIRS:
Pamela DeCesare, Partner, Brand Muse, LLC
James De Vries, Creative Director, Harvard Business Review Group
David Kuehler, Portfolio Director, Innovation Capability, Procter & Gamble
Karen Reuther, Creative Director, Cast Collective

 
In the last decade, design has earned "a seat at the table" and garnered the respect of business leaders around the globe. But what is design today? What actions, ideas and competencies are required to deliver Design excellence?
 
Join DMI as we explore the Promise of Design through conversations: Design Leadership—as Design is asked to solve big problems; Design Mastery—the rigor, instinct and virtuosity of Design; and Design Execution—the ultimate payoff of Design Excellence.

Phil Duncan, Global Design Officer, Procter & Gamble
Edie Weiner, President, Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc.
Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo
Heather Fraser, Co-founder & Executive Director, DesignWorks, Business Design Initiative, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Bruce Nussbaum, Professor of Innovation and Design, Parsons, The New School for Design
Stefan Meisiek, Associate Professor of Leadership, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School
Cindy Tripp, Former Director, Global Design, Procter & Gamble
George Gottl, Chief Creative Officer, UXUS
Ayse Birsel, Co-founder, Birsel + Seck
Stanley Hainsworth, Chief Creative Officer, Tether
Lisa Strausfeld, Global Head of Data Visualization, Bloomberg
Sabrina Jetton, Design Consultant, Cast Collective
Sean Madden, Creative Director, Ziba Design, Inc.
Helen Walters, Writer, Editor & Researcher, Doblin
Michael Mode, Magician/Creative Consultant, Big Lightbulb Inc.
Kathryn Best, Author, Educator and Consultant
Gavin Ivester, Partner, FLO {thinkery}
Laura Shamas, PhD, Writer & Mythologist
Richard Whitehall, VP, Smart Design
Michelle Stuhl, President, Michelle Stuhl & Company, Inc.
Babette Strouse, Sr. Director Design Strategy, Design Operations Specialist, The Design Academy

Design has been buffeted by new ideas, philosophies and agendas. Out of this tumult comes a compelling question that we are all asking: What must Design promise to deliver? NEW AMBITION will help answer this key question.
 
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Optional Pre-Conference Seminar:
Team Dynamics: Resourcing for Success
Dieter Reuther, Operations Consultant, Cast Collective; Sabrina Jetton, Design Consultant, Cast Collective
October 22-23, 2012, New York City, USA

Special Optional DMI Co-Chairs' Dinner
Tuesday, October 23, 6:30–10:00 pm
Harvard Club New York, New York City
 
The DMI Co-Chairs' Dinner will set a memorable tone for the New York Conference. This special evening will include welcoming drinks and a three-course gourmet dinner in the legendary Harvard Hall at the Harvard Club of New York, a landmark piece of New York history. Keynote speaker will be the renowned author and speaker Grant McCracken, author of Culturematic and Chief Culture Officer.
 
This is a unique opportunity to enjoy dinner and conversation with the cream of design leaders, design masters, and design thinkers in one of the most elegant venues in NYC. So join the co-chairs of the NEW AMBITION Conference for a truly wonderful evening!
 
Register now, and be a part of it! Seats are strictly limited.
 

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Recap: Leading Innovation through Design
DMI 2012 International Research Conference
 
In August, educators, students, and practitioners from all over the world gathered in Boston for a major international academic gathering. The event was DMI's most successful academic conference ever, with 80 papers presented during course of the two days. The international breadth of the participants was particularly impressive, with over 30 countries represented. The 1030-page proceedings will become a public reference for years to come; currently a draft version is available.
 
DMI thanks our host, MassArt, as well the National Endowment of the Arts for their generous support to the conference. And in particular, DMI thanks our indefatigable co-chairs for making the event a success: Erik Bohemia, Northumbria University; Jeanne Liedtka, Darden Business School; and Alison Rieple, Westminster Business School. Planning will commence soon for the follow-up event to be held in 2014.
 
View the draft proceedings (final version will be posted in October)
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DMI Night Out September
The boundaries of design: Exploring the outer limits.
 
The outer boundaries of design today may become the core competencies of tomorrow. In which directions must design firms grow to find value for clients, society, and themselves? How can clients and society inform these new directions? What is the "adjacent possible" of today, and the impossible but inevitable of tomorrow? Join us for a forward-looking and wide-ranging discussion of the evolving practice of design.

Pittsburgh, USA, September 12, 2012, Thoughtform
Sydney, Australia, September 13, 2012, UNSW, COFA
Istanbul, Turkey, September 17, 2012, GEDS Business
Hamburg, Germany, September 20, 2012, INDEED
Seattle, USA, September 20, 2012, Hornall Anderson
Bangalore, date TBA

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Webinar:
 
Innovation Therapy
Charles Bezerra, Executive Director, GAD'Innovation/Brazil
September 19, 2012, 1PM ET
 
Without being pessimistic, we, as individuals and society, have many critical problems to face. We become slaves of the technologies we create supposedly to make our lives easier. Most of what we call work is reduced to filling in templates and repetition. It looks as if the thinking we are using is the main source of our problems. We all have the potential for creativity but it looks like some sort of virus is blocking us to achieve meaningful creative transformations in our homes, organizations, and society. Therefore, we need treatment; we need to find an anti-virus.
 
This webinar is intended to start a deep conversation about all this. We will instigate ourselves to develop a less-fragmentary worldview, a new perspective that could help us to achieve the collaborative, creative, and optimistic levels we urgently need.
 
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Seminars:
 
Building Great Internal Design Organizations
Thomas Lockwood, PhD, Founding Partner, Lockwood Resource
September 13-14, 2012, USA
 
"Excellent packaging of all the relevant elements of design management that experienced design managers are looking for."
—John L. Guenther, LWS Industrial Design Competency Manager, Hewlett-Packard
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Design Research and the Customer-Driven Strategy
Darrel Rhea, Founder & CEO, Rhea Insight
September 20-21, 2012, Seattle, USA
 
"This is the single most valuable, relevant, timely and enabling seminar that I have ever attended. In just two days, we learned tools and methods that will be immediately usable in my job."
—Jeff Lopes, UX Director, Autodesk, Inc.
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Improving Design Decision Making and Concept Evaluation
Jeremy Alexis, Assistant Dean and Professor, IIT Institute of Design
October 11-12, 2012, Chicago, USA
 
"The emphasis on core principles made this seminar incredibly useful. It fed my understanding and set me up for informed and effective action."
—Philip Hartley, Senior Design Strategist, Smart Design
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Team Dynamics: Resourcing for Success
Dieter Reuther, Operations Consultant, Cast Collective; Sabrina Jetton, Design Consultant, Cast Collective
October 22-23, 2012, New York City, USA
 
Through insightful presentations, interactive dialogues, and hands-on activities, you will learn how to analyze, diagnose, and improve the chemistry of your project teams, optimize project outcomes, and increase profitability.
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Designing Business Strategy: Creating customer-centered, holistic strategies and tactics
Dave Norton, PhD, Principal, Lead Strategist, Stone Mantel; Jeff VanDeVelde, Senior Vice President, Direct of Client Experience and Loyalty, SunTrust Banks, Inc.; Bryan Searing, Lead Strategist, Stone Mantel; Whitney Stewart, SunTrust Banks, Inc.
November 8-9, 2012, Seattle, USA
 
This seminar provides you with the skills you need to think about, lead, and deliver holistic, experiential organization-wide thinking to solve the biggest challenges your company faces.
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Positioning Your Team as a Strategic Partner (New!)
Emily Cohen, Cohen Miller Consulting; Jen Miller, Cohen Miller Consulting
November 15-16, 2012, New York City, USA
 
This seminar focuses on effective business-driven strategies that elevate in-house teams to the status of value-added strategic partners. It is ideal for corporate and institutional leaders, CMOs, and directors of marketing and creative teams.
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Planting Gardens on Main Street: Changing a Community Through Design

By Steven J. Doehler, Faculty, University of Cincinnati Industrial Design Program
DMI Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2012
 
Young designers are creating a vibrant enclave in an old Cincinnati neighborhood—as entrepreneurs.
 
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