Experimentation
Natalie Jeremijenko: No One Trusts an Artist
Blending biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering, the artist shares some creative experiments from her environmental health clinic.
An Event with Dan Pink
Dan was at BIF recently and spoke to a packed house about his new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Dan offered all of us a candid assessment of some 40+ years of behavioral science that overturns the conventional wisdom about human motivation and the path to high performance.
Richard Saul Wurman: On the Right Way to Peel a Banana
Known for reinvention, and never being afraid to disrupt, Richard Saul Wurman always keeps things interesting. RSW's BIF-7 talk is no excpetion to this. Teaching us it's okay to blow up your own ideas, Wurman unviels his lastest adventure, the WWW Conference. He keeps it simple: Pairings of amazingly interesting individuals prompted by a question, generating conversation.
Dan Pink: Assume Nothing, Expect Everything
Levitating frogs? Fed Ex days? There is no limit to the creative mind when given the chance to tap into its wisdoms. Dan Pink enlightens us on the booming trend of incorporating non-commissioned work into corporate culture. Pink points out that free-wheeling workdays like these have resulted in creations like Gmail and the Post-it note. Given the time, what else is waiting to be created?
Chris Meyer: What's Next For Capitalism?
Meyer, the founder of Monitor Talent and author of four books including the forthcoming, Standing on the Sun: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere, has long been an innovator in the area where economics and technology intersect. He has been thinking about digital convergence since the ‘80s, before most of the world even knew what digital was. He recalls the days when his terminal connected to a time-sharing network with an acoustic coupler—a telephone receiver stuck into two rubber cups.
From Idea to Concept: Student Experience Participatory Design Studio
In the spring of 2011, the Business Innovation Factory’s (BIF) Student Experience Lab and Utah State University (USU) conducted a unique experience to put students in the driver’s seat of a new kind of student-led R&D to transform education.
Mapping the Trip Take Two: Student-Led R&D Continues at Utah State University
We're thrilled to announce that one of the student-led solution ideas to come out of our recent participatory design studio with Utah State University is headed into concept development. Learn more about how we are proactively putting students in the driver's seat of educational R&D activity.
BIF Student Experience Lab Launches Student-Driven Participatory Design Studio
What if we put students in the driver’s seat of a new kind of R&D to transform higher education? One that provided a platform for engaging students more fully in a real world effort that also involved faculty, and university administrators? Could we improve a student’s education experience? Yes. Could we take it a step further and transform higher education itself? Yes.
Jane Fulton Suri: Finding Inspiration Through the Power of Observation
A proponent of the "empathetic economy" Jane Fulton Suri from IDEO is changing the world of product design. By using post-disciplinary teams, teams that go beyond a single discipline, IDEO finds new inspiration in its collaborative work.
Ivy Ross: Cleansing the Palate Through Innovative Work Environments
How do you help a creative team that does not know each other learn to work together and produce the next great idea? Ivy Ross shares her experiences of starting a new job at Old Navy and rapidly getting the team up to speed by fostering connections, relationships and trust.