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How do you design products and services that people love? While this is a big question to answer, it can be solved using a process…
Kim Jenkins is changing the discussion about the fashion industry and how its social, cultural, and historical influences show up in our daily lives and determine…
Wolfgang Wopperer-Beholz is a London-based facilitator and self-described sense-maker who helps organizations and startups navigate change and complexity through training and coaching. He started his…
When Sonja Kresojevic was hired at Pearson, she led digital transformation for the international part of their business. After a year, she was promoted and…
Solomon will be speaking at our upcoming event — Control the Room: The 2nd Annual Austin Facilitator Summit! Taking place at Austin’s Capital Factory on February 6th,…
Sunni will be speaking at our upcoming event — Control the Room: The 2nd Annual Austin Facilitator Summit! Taking place at Austin’s Capital Factory on February 6th,…
Amie Gray is an expert in launching external innovation programs at F1000 global corporations. She is the CEO of N³ Innovation, a small company based…
Tristan Kromer coaches startups and intrapreneurs on how to put startup principles into practice. Along with his team at Kromatic, Tristan has worked with early-stage…
When exploring how to communicate more effectively in meetings, we stumbled upon a golden archive that opened our eyes to the long-standing, poor productivity habits…
Sunni will be speaking at our upcoming event — Control the Room: The 2nd Annual Austin Facilitator Summit! Taking place at Austin’s Capital Factory on February 6th,…
Tristan Kromer coaches startups and intrapreneurs on how to put startup principles into practice. Along with his team at Kromatic, Tristan has worked with early-stage…
If you work in e-commerce, product, or digital design, you might have come across the concept of the “painted door” test. It’s one way that…
This is part of the 2019 Control The Room speaker video series. Control the Room 2019 was Austin’s 1st Annual Facilitator Summit with the goal of…
This is part of my series on thought leaders in the innovation space. When Bill Gates, Malcolm Gladwell, and Tim Ferriss all recommended a new…
In the Harvard Business Review article “Why Design Thinking Works,” Jeanne Liedtka reveals the results of a seven-year study she did looking at 50 business…
This is part of my series on thought leaders in the innovation space. Check out the end of this article for links to others in…
Right now, if you’re not working in a hospital, grocery store, pharmacy, or other essential business, you’re likely working from home as best as you…
How do you design products and services that people love? While this is a big question to answer, it can be solved using a process…
The unknowns of COVID-19 pose a concern for how to continue business as usual and many facilitators have found themselves wondering how to navigate this…
This is part of the 2020 Control The Room speaker video series. In February we hosted the second annual facilitator summit, Control The Room, at Austin’s…
When you desperately need to jumpstart project at work, there’s one tried-and-true method: a Design Sprint. A Design Sprint is a five-day process where you…
Many of us have adopted the mantra “work hard, play hard,” as a method to construct our work and social lives around; “the harder I…
“In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.” -Warren G. Bennis If there’s one sure thing in life, it’s that change is constant…
Last week, Austin Tech Alliance hosted a “town hall” ideation gathering to discuss the threat of coronavirus during the upcoming SXSW Conference and Festivals and beyond. Members…
We are proud to announce the new line of Control the Room products for facilitators and anyone seeking to transform their meetings. Anyone attending this…
Solomon will be speaking at our upcoming event — Control the Room: The 2nd Annual Austin Facilitator Summit! Taking place at Austin’s Capital Factory on February 6th,…
Marin Alsop will conduct the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra at the Hong Kong Arts Festival on Thursday and Friday night in the Hong Kong Cultural…
Beyond the Prototype
Have you ever struggled to move a key innovation project forward at work? Based on his experiences running Design Sprints for top companies, Douglas Ferguson wrote Beyond the Prototype to offer practical advice for people shifting from discovery to realization. Full of stories from companies like Google, Liberty Mutual, and Adobe, this guide outlines six steps that every team should take to launch their vision.