The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Leadership, arts-in-business on Apr 30th, 2008
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Posted in Design, Innovation, Leadership on Apr 21st, 2008
One of the highlights of the ACA Singapore 2008 conference, was the keynote delivered by Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO / President of The LEGO Group.
He said the purpose of Lego is to help children become creative in an extremely logical fashion. Did you know all ten thousand pieces of Lego fit together [...]
Posted in Design, Home, Innovation, Trends on Dec 22nd, 2007
Shilajeet (Banny) Banerjee, who runs the Joint Program in Design at Stanford, says complexity requires a new way of thinking and design thinking is the answer. This includes:
Collaborative Thinking
Process Mindedness
Holistic Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Human-centered
Tech/Business focus
Systems thinking
Synthesis
Rapid Concept Generation
Envisioning
Rapid Prototyping
Visualizing
Catalyzing decision-making
Storytelling
Realizing
Roadmapping
Managing transformation
Source: Nussbaum on Design
I would add empathy, aesthetics, creativity, and customer-focus to the list.
Stanford’s D school believes great [...]
Posted in Conferences, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home, arts-based training on Dec 21st, 2007
In this Issue:
Upcoming public workshops
Creativity at Work across the Commonwealth:
Vancouver, Victoria, Singapore, and Sidney
Rituals and Celebrations:
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
~ Leonard Cohen ‘Strange Music’
I used to think rituals and ceremonies (especially religious ones) were a colossal [...]
Posted in arts-in-business on Oct 31st, 2007
I’ve been featured in two publications this month in South Africa:The art of work: Together, art and business will sculpt our futureMarketing Web picked up the story and adapted it”Creativity works: Art and creativity should be used as a role model for business.”
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Posted in Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, arts-in-business on Sep 19th, 2007
An invitation to the arts-in-business community
Welcome to all of you who are interested in the interplay of arts and business, and want to participate in a dialogue with other practitioners in this pioneering work.
I especially welcome those of you who have bought Orchestrating Collaboration at Work (VanGundy, Naiman) who want to share experiences, meshwork, and [...]
Posted in Books, Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, arts-based training, arts-in-business on Sep 19th, 2007
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using music, improv, storytelling and other arts to improve teamwork by Arthur B. VanGundy and Linda Naiman, is now available in a paperback edition and you can buy your copy today at Amazon.The cost is $58.95 USD and if you are buying more than one copy, please contact me [...]