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Innovation Moment   "Sharpen your Experimenting skills to empower your innovation journey. Experimenting skills are vital for fostering innovation and creativity. To improve your innovation idea, experiment with analysis, tweaking, and generation of options. Learning activities will improve your experimenting skills – Prototyping, Tinkering, Reverse Engineering, Hypothesis Testing, Modeling Alternatives, Invention Boxes, just to name a few."   Developed and refined over time through learning, practice, and exposure to new challenges and opportunities!  

How to reduce production of stuff?🤔 I see this as one of the foundational challenges of today. And while we have some general lines shaping up around degrowth / post growth scholarship, it's critical to translate this meta level thinking into specific policies and practices for specific industries. This essay will form a part of my upcoming book, Post Growth Fashion, so it is only available to my paid subscribers - people who directly support the work I do in this area. (Thank you guys❤️) The logic of LESS is a difficult one to sell given that it challenges the very foundations of capitalism. But it also requires much figuring out and definitely a whole lot of good publicity. This essay aims to contribute to the first objective: figuring it out. It's easy to say: “let's just all be content with less”. But translating sufficiency principles into policies and specific business practices to reduce production is one of the most challenging (and cool) tasks there are today. Nobody has done this before and people who are part of the system are genuinely confused about how to move forward differently and uneasy about what's coming next in terms of regulation. In this essay, I explore in more detail how to apply sufficiency principles to downsize the global fashion system from the point of view of design and business models innovation. https://lnkd.in/eGEN5X5c

Innovation Moment   "Sharpen your Experimenting skills to empower your innovation journey. Experimenting skills are vital for fostering innovation and creativity. To improve your innovation idea, experiment with analysis, tweaking, and generation of options. Learning activities will improve your experimenting skills – Prototyping, Tinkering, Reverse Engineering, Hypothesis Testing, Modeling Alternatives, Invention Boxes, just to name a few."   Developed and refined over time through learning, practice, and exposure to new challenges and opportunities! Everyone is an innovator – 20 % genetic and 80 % learned skill!

Innovation Moment   "Sharpen your Envisioning skills to empower your innovation journey. Envisioning skills are vital to visualize future possibilities, enabling you to create innovative solutions. Learning activities will improve your associating skills – Concept sketching, visualizing change, creating a vision board, looking for pattern evolution, Trip to the future, Big Picture Visualization, just to name a few." Developed and refined over time through learning, practice, and exposure to new challenges and opportunities! Everyone is an innovator – 20 % genetic and 80 % learned skill!

Anyone who has delved into innovative product development is familiar with the five-step Design Thinking process by IDEO (nowadays a six-step process) and Lean Startup’s Build-Measure-Learn loop. However, the model that aligns most closely with the scientific method could be the Innovation Vortex. #innovation #science #unFIX

We hear the word 'innovative" all the time, but what does it really mean? Love this quote from MIchael B. Horn: “It doesn’t count as innovation if it doesn’t actually help people make progress.” We write about innovation in schools, and what that looks like around the country, in our latest blog post. Link below 😉

I did this TEDX-talk at University of Groningen 7 years ago now, but still in almost every conversation I have with #founders about eco-social product design, business strategy and #leadership I come back to the ideas from this TEDx-talk. The main point: belief systems and purpose dictate EVERYTHING a business does. Your purpose defines your actions. What you hope to achieve with your businesss affects how you treat employees and supply chain partners, how you view customers, society at large, your ecological context and ultimately which principles govern your product design. Product design is not ‘putting shape and colour’ to your product. It is the physical manifestation of your belief system. 🤥 This principle is the reason why many companies struggle to define a credible ESG-strategy; 🤢 The reason why fast fashion companies struggle with greenwashing claims; 💔 The reason why many electronic products break after 2-3 years; 👀 The reason why carbon tunnelvision exists; 😶 The reason why “greenhushing” is a thing; 🐌 The reason why corporate ESG plans are often just enough to 1-up the competition, but slow enough to secure shareholder value. 🤦♂️ It’s also a main reason why Gen Z is not excited to work for corporates. The problem is misaligned belief systems: Profit maximation comes from a different belief system than eco-social benefit. They don’t match. It’s competition vs. collaboration, exploitation vs. regeneration, win-lose vs. win-win. Becoming truly ‘purpose-driven’ requires changing your belief system and that’s incredibly difficult. That is why most companies stick to the former and only dip their toe into the latter. Businesses know they need to change: changing legislation, consumer demand, attracting and keeping quality talent are all driving this awareness. But ‘going green’ is unfamiliar, complex, risky and time consuming. Diving in head-first could be a recipe for disaster. But not acting at all will make your company lose market share or risk reputational damage. What to do? Three tips: 1. Listen - Every business has employees that live this new mindset. You must also know experts in the field. Use them all. Give them a voice. Radically explore what this new incarnation of your business could be. Their ideas can inform a strategy that not only gets your workforce excited, but it will give your company a truly authentic, credible brand identity that will attract loyal customers. 2. Take it step by step - don’t rush transitions. They are uncomfortable and messy as it is. Take some time to adjust your own thinking. Have an ambitious vision but take small realistic steps. 3. Be honest - This process requires radical self-reflection, tough conversations and breaking through internal barriers. It takes courage to open the dialogue, but that is what leadership is about. If you don’t, you are not only failing yourself, but your employees and ultimately, your business. Curious to hear your own thoughts on this!

Creativity and Design Thinking: Start Anytime Become a creative problem-solver by generating more innovative ideas. Learn straight from Stanford d.school experts, online, at your own pace. With our design thinking courses, you can bring new ideas and fresh perspectives to your team, your department, or your entire company. We’ll show you how design thinking can (and will) unlock your creativity so that you repeatedly come up with innovative ideas and solutions to problems (big and small) that you face in your life and work. Through online content, hands-on assignments, ongoing coaching, and proven frameworks, you'll learn how to practice and champion design thinking in any role you're in. Continuously produce breakthrough ideas Catalyze design thinking in your company Unlock the innovative capacity of your team Build a lifelong practice of creative problem-solving Enroll today: https://lnkd.in/drYKWmjw #designthinking #innovation #problemsolving #Stanford 

🌟 Reflecting on "Innovation Made Possible" (IMP): A Journey of Growth and Discovery 🌟 Looking back on the "Innovation Made Possible" (IMP) module, I feel grateful for this experience that truly ignited my passion for innovation. This module has been more than just coursework; it was a gateway into the world of innovation and design thinking, equipping me with foundational skills that continue to shape my perspective. Through IMP, I was introduced to transformative concepts like human-centered design, stakeholder mapping, and opportunity statements, each giving me a deeper understanding of what it takes to build meaningful, impactful solutions. I had the chance to experiment with ideation individually and learned the power of collaboration through tools like Rose, Thorn, Bud—a reflection exercise that uncovered new perspectives and insights. IMP has shown me that innovation is a journey filled with challenges, learnings, and countless opportunities to grow. I’m excited to carry these skills forward and apply them to future projects! This is the introduction to our final video submission for IMP! The full video can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gSwq2UW5

Do you want to make your textile company more in line with the circular economy? 🕵♀️ Do you want to join developing concrete ideas about customer engagement, service development, digital service development, and collaboration across borders? 💡 Welcome to the workshop series where you will have the opportunity to quickly try out what kind of circular textile business models, services, or other solutions would suit your company. In the first part of the workshop series, we organize four ideation workshops in spring 2024. You get to network with other companies in the industry and brainstorm together and with the help of facilitators, we will co-create idea cards; preliminary concepts, which you can start prototyping in the following prototyping and testing workshops, if you want. All our workshops are free of charge, 3-hour agile and collaborative online events, and they are organized in English. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d4tDMhv5 Laurea University of Applied Sciences Tallinna Loomeinkubaator / Tallinn Creative Incubator Latvijas Tirdzniecības un rūpniecības kamera Turku University of Applied Sciences Sustainability InnoCenter #CircularEconomy #SecondHand #TextileReuse #Baltic2Hand