Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Month: September 2015
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The September issue of the Harvard Business Review features a spotlight on The Evolution of Design Thinking. With four articles on the subject, HBR’s overriding message is that design is no longer just for physical products, being increasingly applied to customer experiences, innovation, business strategy, and complex problem solving. Last week I discussed this expanded…
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Design Thinking is the featured topic in the September issue of the Harvard Business Review with four articles on the subject. “It’s no longer just for products. Executives are using this approach to devise strategy and manage change,” reads the tagline in its cover. The application of design thinking beyond products, – in innovation, problem…
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A recent NY Times article, The Sunny Side of Greed by Op-Ed columnist Frank Bruni, argues that corporations may well now be among the strongest socially progressive forces in the country. In issue after issue, – e.g., marriage equality, the confederate flag, immigration reform, – the business community has supported what we generally think of…
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A few weeks ago I attended the 12th annual Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty. Organized by the Brookings Institution, the Blum Roundtable brings together policy and technical experts from government, academia, business, investors and NGOs from all over the world. This year’s event, – Disrupting Development with Digital Technologies, – explored the impact of…
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A year ago, McKinsey Quarterly published a special edition, Management: The next 50 year, to commemorate its 50th anniversary. To illustrate how different the world was 50 years ago, its lead article characterized the 1964 environment with three key events: the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which was the first global telecast via satellite; the last…