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Managing Trends and Innovations
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger Organizer IIR LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Topic: The Trend Radar – Managing Trends and Innovations Through Corporate Foresight Speaker: Dominik Tappert: Head of Innovations, Kaefer Aerospace Dominik Tappert began by posing this question, “Why do we need innovation and early trend detection?” The answer [...]
The Trend Radar – Managing Trends and Innovations #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger Organizer IIR LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Topic: The Trend Radar – Managing Trends and Innovations Through Corporate Foresight Speaker: Dominik Tappert: Head of Innovations, Kaefer Aerospace Dominik Tappert began by posing this question, “Why do we need innovation and early trend detection?” The answer [...]
Changing from a pyramid world to a pancake world #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger IIR USA LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Topic: Engaging with the Future Differently Speaker: Josephine Green: Senior Director Trends and Strategy, Philips Design Josephine Green worked at Philips for 15 years and looked at the future by studying people, cultures and society. She asks us [...]
BMW’s Concept Car: The Future Sustainability and the Joy of Mobility #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger IIR USA LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Featured Keynote: LIVE! An Exclusive Preview of BMW’s New Concept Car The Future Sustainability and the Joy of Mobility Speaker: Adrian van Hookydonk: Director Design, BMW Group The joy of mobility is deeply ingrained in us. Imagine a [...]
Destination Innovation. How the Hilton Amsterdam Reinvented Itself #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger IIR USA LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Speaker: Roberto Payer: General Manager, HILTON AMSTERDAM Topic: Interactive Collaborative Design Workshop: Destination Innovation. How the Hilton Amsterdam Reinvented Itself Roberto began with the photo of a gorgeous peacock. He tells us a peacock cannot fly. This is [...]
What a Designer can bring a child and what a child can bring a designer #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger IIR USA LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Speaker: Bas Roelofs: Former Director of Marketing & (New Business) Development BERG TOYS and Director of RCT Topic: What a Designer Can Bring a Child & What a Child Can Bring a Designer Bas Roelofs has several observations [...]
Rapid Prototyping and Involving Users #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger Organizer IIR LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Speaker: Frank Kresin, Research Director, WAAG Society Topic: Using Rapid Prototyping to Develop Solutions & How to Involve Users in the Process “Waag Society develops creative technology for social innovation. The foundation researches, develops concepts, pilots and prototypes [...]
Seeds for Growth – Design Research Supporting Innovation #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger Organizer IIR LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 #FEIEUROPE Seeds for Growth—Design Research Supporting Innovation Speaker: Paul Gardien: Vice President, Philips Design Design begins with observing and understanding people. In the third world, co-creation made it possible to design a stove that stops 1.6 million people [...]
Design thinking in tech-driven corporation #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger Organizer IIR USA LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Speaker: Mauro Porcini, Head of Design Worldwide, Consumer & Office Business, 3M Topic – The Business Perspective: Innovation by Design Thinking in a Tech-driven Corporation Mauro Porcini recommends combining short term projects with your long term vision. [...]
What are the undercurrents of Design Thinking? #FEIEUROPE
By Connie Harryman, Applied Concepts Creativity Guest Blogger IIR USA LIVE Front End of Innovation Europe 2010 Speaker: Robert Klanten, Publisher, GESTALTEN Topic – Design Keynote Session: Undercurrents Gestalten is a publishing company that develops content and cutting-edge visual culture worldwide. They present visual trends and timeless substance. Gestalten has published more than three hundred [...]
