SubscribeBob Schwartz of GE Health shared with us how they changed the blood donation experience. The first thing they did was watch over 10,000 blood donations. They found tremendous advantages through changes in ergonomics. They made it easier to set up a blood donation site, and then they turned that knowledge into a better mobile [...]
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BIF-5: Sixth Session
The sixth session started with Kris Halvorsen and Bruce Nussbaum talking about Intuit and the acquisition of Mint.com, which provides the collaborative piece with the product offering. They talked about the challenge of changing the culture from the desktop product development model at Intuit. They built teams around ideas for product development. It was all [...]
BIF-5: Fifth Session
Saul kicked off the second day at BIF-5 with some thoughts on the takeaways from yesterday. First, our mental models of college students is wrong. We have to rethink the challenges for college students if we want more people to finish a college education. Second, we are going to have to be much more collaborative [...]
BIF-5: Fourth Session
Sarah Endline from Sweetriot kicked off the last session of the first day with chocolate. How could she miss. Her background and her story was a great explanation for how she came up with the idea of going “Back to the Bean” (i.e. putting the raw cocoa bean in the chocolate bar. It adds a [...]
BIF-5: Third Session
Saul kicked off the third session with a truism of sorts. He said the hallmark of an innovator is someone that is both confident in his or her idea, but also knows he or she is missing something. Too true. Neri Oxman started the storytelling talking about form-making (i.e. modeling, simulation, and fabrication is the [...]
BIF-5: Second Session
Don Tapscott kicked off the second session talking about kids in the digital age. He called young adults and children of this generation digital natives- he is a digital immigrant. He pointed out that the technology revolution is intersecting with the demographic revolution. As a result, for the first time, kids are experts at a [...]
BIF-5: First Session
The theme for the first session was: Design is integral. We need to design not just new products and technologies but also new systems and new expectations. Saul Kaplan started the summit. He talked about the importance of system level innovation for solving big problems like energy, education, and healthcare. He called for more experimentation [...]
BIF-4 – Last Session
Joshua Klein, Senior Technology Principal, Frog Design Joshua told us all about How to Publish Your Own Book: 1) Write book, 2) Give it away, 3) Give it away everywhere, 4) Look Around, 5) Collaborate, 6) Commiserate. Joshua used a commons license instead of copyright. He gave it away, and almost no one read it. [...]
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