May 18th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Seven days ago I was sitting in my hotel room getting ready to leave for a dress rehearsal for TEDx Grand Rapids. I sleep horribly in hotel rooms, so I was half awake and nervous, having practiced my talk for the 70th time. This morning I’m sitting at my desk in Palo Alto and as [...]
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Many online communities parade their community size stats as if it were the only measure of success. As a result it’s easy to think that’s the most important metric for every community. This can trip you up, and force you to chase the wrong goals. For some communities, size isn’t the most important metric. Take [...]
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It’s well known that Deep Blue, IBM’s supercomputer, beat chess world champion Gary Kasparov back during a rematch in 1997, but perhaps lesser known is how 50,000 people two years later played Kasparov in a crowdsourced online experiment. Kasparov described the game as: “It is the greatest game in the history of chess. The sheer [...]
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At OpenIDEO we thought it might help to start documenting some of the different ways that we can think about solving problems and provide some of the tips and methodologies we’ve learned across IDEO. Particularly relevant to our latest challenge with Amnesty International is the way in which we can learn from analogous situations. Sometimes [...]
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Our friends at Unilever and WSUP has produced this wonderful video to tell the story of how the low-cost sanitation prototypes from the IDEO.org + OpenIDEO.com project have been going. Watch the video now
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Here’s the final video from the TEDx-Prototype event STAN’11 featuring Jennifer Aaker and myself talking about the OpenIDEO Bone Marrow challenge that we ran recently and the amazing work of 100kCheeks Stanford students.
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In January of this year I had the great honour of speaking at the AIGA event ‘Compostmodern ’11′ in San Francisco. The event was really inspiring and featured people like Yves Behar talking about the great work he and his team does at Fuse Project, Bruce Mau talking about his desire for taking low cost [...]
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I thought you might like to hear about some of the latest developments happening on the OpenIDEO platform. We’re tracking impact We now have a new challenge phase on OpenIDEO called Realisation, where we tell stories and create action around implementation of concepts. Because implementation and impact mean different things for different challenges, each Realisation [...]
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I just had the honor of presenting one of our most recent OpenIDEO challenges and representing the Stanford Haas Center and the amazing 100kCheeks student team alongside Jennifer Aaker. The challenge focussed on how to increase the number of ‘cheeks’ in the bone marrow registry. This is something that is a massive issue, especially for [...]
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