Hasta La Ideas

Yesterday afternoon, instead of sitting down to complete a research paper due for a conference later this year, I suddenly found myself embroiled in an intense conversation about the nexus of design thinking, sustainable innovation and the fuzzy front end. Lotta Hassi of Decode Research group wondered out loud why there weren’t any definitions available of design thinking and I couldn’t resist piping up. An instant best friendship was born. While some might think of bananas, this experience best describes what its really like to be sitting at Aalto University’s Design Factory. You never know when someone will want talk about business or design or technology or simply the challenges of innovating in today’s uncertain times.

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