Tag: Design Thinking

Blockchain Service Design: pains and gains in the Berlin Blockchain ecosystem

In the first week of March 2019 I launched a research project with a survey in the Berlin Blockchain startups ecosystem. My aim is to leverage the Blockchain technological enhancement for the general public. For the Blockchain teams …

Do you dream of…an empathy leader?

Rick Deckard went to sleep. As a bounty hunter, his assignment was to eliminate androids. Through the ‘Voigt-Kampff test’ his draining job was to see if and how androids react in social situations. Then to find out if …

Innovation grows through Learning Experience Design

Have you ever asked yourself what is Innovation and how it’s linked with your ethos and work? I did it and the following article is the consequence. I borrow an idea from an Harvard Business Review article to …

User-centred design can be a driver in organizations: SoundCloud report

My purpose is to explore the opportunity to embed the Human-Centred-Design methodologies in business models culture. The report below suggests to equip the organizations with the understanding of customer needs as a real competitive advantage. Deloitte just released the …

Design Thinking for Creative Confidence

I spent one week with 25 students from different disciplines at European institute of Design in Rome, (IED Rome University). Every year the university holds the event called IED Factory where a cross-pollination of skills and backgrounds mingle …

‘Social Entrepreneur versus Leadership via Service Design’

Over the last 30 years most researchers have been converging on leadership, as Petriglieri (2014) states, “as the exercise of influence, as an activity, as something that the leader does to others. We haven’t paid enough attention to …

The social impact and design thinking, where did the story begin?

I spent three months within the organisation then I interviewed more than ten leaders to shed light on different levels. My gut instinct dealt with swirling questions after I finished my research project at Croydon Council in London …