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Innovation Series: Douglas Ferguson talks with Dr. Zayna Khayat, Future Strategist of SE Health, about disruption gurus, Kaiser Permanente, and why she tries to ban the word innovation with her team.
Innovation Series: Douglas Ferguson talks to multidisciplinary designer Lisa Baird about her career journey, falling in love with the problem, the helpfulness of curmudgeonly people, and the deeper systems underneath user experiences.
Innovation Series: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Tom Counsell, Executive Director of B-Hub Prague, about how to build a team that can harness raw potential, being diplomatic about failure, and the amazing innovative power of poor communities.
Kris Pennella, Director of Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs, is on a mission to assist companies in getting products to market faster by transforming their…
Throughout his experiences as a consultant and at NASA, Steve Rader focuses on the use of crowdsourcing to generate innovative ideas and unlock improvements. He…
"I love running fast. I'm not so much a jogger. I like to sprint." In his earlier days, Dr. Ralph-Christian Ohr was a track and…
I recently spoke with the incredible Tamara Ghandour–author, founder, and president of LaunchStreet, keynote speaker, and creator of the proprietary Innovation Quotient Edge (IQE) assessment.…
When several students at Davidson College in North Carolina pitched an idea to design and teach their own course, the small liberal arts school was…
Perhaps you’ve experienced a Design Sprint as a participant and are interested in planning one of your own, or perhaps you’re completely new to the…
In the wake of social distancing and remote work, the way we work will be forever changed. Here are our top tips, strategies, and resources to prepare you for the future of work.
CTR Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Gary Noesner, retired FBI chief and author of the book Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator. They discuss the gray nature of life, what distinguishes wants vs needs, the game-changing power of making adjustments at halftime, and how Gary’s discomfort with conflict in his youth led to his career as a hostage negotiator for the FBI.
How are your virtual meetings going? If there's room for improvement, we are here to help. Adjusting to the virtual landscape can be a doozy…
Yes, there’s a lot changing in our world, but not our ability to collaborate, creatively solve problems, and design impactfully. We aren’t able to converse…
For the vast majority of the world, all work and meetings are now virtual. If you’re worried about what this means for productivity and meaningful meetings,…
By now, you’ve probably heard about design thinking. More industries than ever are taking a human-centric approach to evolving their existing products and generating new…
Voltage Control is a workshop agency that specializes in Design Sprints and innovation workshops. Engage with us to design, plan, and facilitate your Design Sprint.…
Trying to decide if you should run a Design Sprint? Discover 5 scenarios when a Design Sprint can help your organization.
7 practices to go beyond the prototype and launch your next big idea.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Keith McCandless, Co-creator of Liberating Structures, about goat rodeos, grief walking, and prototyping responses to unsafe behaviors. Listen in to find out what’s giving Keith hope right now.
Control the Room Summit 2020: Erin Lamberty, Director of Strategy & Culture Change at The Design Gym, speaks about how to navigate uncomfortable conversations and facilitate the unexpected.
8 not-so-common virtual collaboration tools for successful remote work collaboration.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Jan DeVisch, an executive professor at Flanders Business School, about reducing reality into logical categories, software that can help facilitators pre-assess a team’s communication patterns, and resistance as a concept invented by the facilitator.
Control the Room Summit 2020: Shannon Stott, owner of Shannon Unlimited, presents "Stick to Your Shit", a talk about how individual success translates to group success.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Kristin Fulton, Development and Operations Manager for Schools That Can, about closing the opportunity and skills gap, teaching confidence, and the tipping point at which students become leaders.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Keith McCandless, Co-creator of Liberating Structures, about goat rodeos, grief walking, and prototyping responses to unsafe behaviors. Listen in to find out what’s giving Keith hope right now.
Please join us for the Control the Room 2021, which will be held Feb. 2-4, 2020. You can find out more and buy tickets here. This…
The Design Sprint is a staple structure in the world of facilitation for solving big challenges. Get to know the "what, what, when, where, and why" of running this five-day process.
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