Design
Frans Johansson at BIF-4
Medici Effect author talks about innovation at the convergence of risk, passion and luck.
Jason Fried: Merchant of Simplicity
37signals founder expounds on the unexpected sources of inspiration for his company.
Paola Antonelli: Revealing the Human Spirit Through Design
The MOMA senior curator gives her take on the design process and it's ability to understand the increasingly complex nuances of consumer preference.
Bruce Nussbaum
Former BusinessWeek editor and now a professor of innovation and design at The New School focused on showing students how design tools, methodologies and approaches can change the world.
Sketchmodeling with Zee Spencer
One of my favorite tools for exploring a systems model is sketchmodeling. Sketchmodeling is a way to take quickly take ideas from your head and put them into the world so that you and others can interact with them. This allows you to quickly iterate a model, generate shared understanding, and reduce the complexity of highly interconnected systems.
Gathering of Student Minds: The Art of Possibility
The Business Innovation Factory’s (BIF) is thrilled to announce a partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE). On Saturday, October 29, Team BIF and RIDE will hold a day-long, student-driven workshop to focus on solving a real-world design challenge facing educators today: how to create a student experience that enables all students to thrive.
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.
Valdis Krebs
Valdis is a management consultant, researcher, trainer, author, and the developer of InFlow software for social and organizational network analysis. InFlow maps and measures knowledge exchange, information flow, emergent communities, networks of alliances and other connections within and between organizations and communities. Since 1987, Valdis has participated in over 500 SNA/ONA projects with clients such as IBM, Google, Edelman, Vodafone, Aventis, Solvay, Merck, Genentech, Cardinal Health, and Kaiser Permanente.
Charlie Cannon at BIF-1
Charlie Cannon is an architect by training who uses design thinking as "urban acupuncture" to catalyze community improvement. For the past six years he has developed and refined tools of collaboration in the Rhode Island School of Design's Innovation Studio Program. The Program aims to develop ecologically sound infrastructures such as eco-industrial parks, power plants and municipal waste systems through interdisciplinary teamwork.
Harry West at BIF-1
Design Continuum's Vice President for Strategy and Innovation, West uses the study of human behavior to design better products.