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Design Thinking is all about having great conversations. A dozen years ago I was in the foothills of the Himalayas processing six months of incredible conversations for my masters thesis on Cultural Values in Non-Violent Political Movements.
How can we improve life for more than 3,000 HIV patients in Yangon, Myanmar? This is the pressing question that Pepal, a London based non-profit organization, asked Board of Innovation, an innovation consultancy, when they contacted the Antwerp based organization to help find an innovative solution for one of the country’s...
Design Thinking is an approach that has been evolving since the 1960’s and was popularised in the 1990’s when IDEO, a US based design consultancy, formed. It’s an approach to creative problem solving that private sector organisations have been using to design and sell products and services for decades
Imagine: you’re unemployed. You’ve been in and out of jobs, never really feeling valued or a sense of belonging. Responsibilities like rent, bills and groceries mean you have to work, but constantly moving between roles leaves you with uncertainty. Soon, family activities like a pizza or a cinema, decrease. One...