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Apple’s design thinking inspired by Picasso

Apple has religiously embodied the notion that function and beauty come from elegant simplicity, and teachers in its internal training program sometimes point to a collection of Picasso lithographs that artfully illustrate the drive to boil down an idea to its most essential components. That drive can be seen in…
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Cuckoo Smurfing for money laundering

Commonwealth Bank of Australia(CBA), the largest bank in Australia in August,2017 was charged with a massive fine by banking regulatory body, AUSTRAC. CBA was charged that it failed to monitor the illegal deposit of money through its intelligent deposit machines and indirectly it had allowed money laundering. Without getting into…
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Inspiration from Fibonacci series in real life

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34… This is the famous Fibonacci number sequence, where the third number is sum of previous two numbers. The series itself was inspired when Leonardo Fibonacci observed the way the  way rabbits bred themselves. Soon the pattern found its way in understanding bee colonies, the seeds in sunflowers, structure of…
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Dyson vacuum cleaner inspired by industry saw mill

James Dyson was frustrated with the way vacuum cleaners worked where they used a traditional approach of using suction power to pick up dirt into a bag. James during one of the visits to industry saw mill found inspiration the way conical cyclone was used to accelerate the air and…
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Circular Economy : Capital from Waste

The circular economy is a generic term for an industrial economy that is producing no waste and pollution, by design or intention. It is more than just thinking green or promoting reuse. The core principles which drive the circular economy are , every thing comes from nature and hence it…
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Co-Constructing innovation for Resilience

What happens when two global industry leaders join hands to solve a  problem ? One would expect that, – the problem to be solved has to be complex and gigantic – the solution has to be innovative. That’s what has exactly happened when the large reinsurance companies SwissRe and one…
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Myanmar’s Design Thinking Center for economic empowerment

Leading global organizations are all investing heavily to embed Design Thinking as part of their core execution strategy.  Myanmar which is getting back to democracy after 50 years of military rule realizes that it has lot of work to do to build a strong economy and create a situation where…
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COWfunding : Fairebel’s innovation from Belgium

Fairebel is a milk co-operative society started in Belgium in 2009 with more than 500 farms as its members.The main goal under which Fairebel was started was to operate diary business in a fair way ensuring all the stakeholders in the diary chain are paid properly. It focused on farmers…
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Nature’s innovations for nature’s problems

Humankind has been smart enough to find innovative solutions by at times converting the source of the problem itself as the inspiration for  solution. It is very true when it comes to leveraging the way nature has designed the animal lifecyle – where  the inherent traits of one set of…
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Nature vs Nurture : Does theory of Tabula Rasa hold good ?

Every ambitious person wants to achieve something in the world and make their mark.However does everyone possess the required talent to achieve their goals? This question has always been a subject of interest to philosophers over generations and leads us to the interesting debate about, ‘Nature vs. Nurture’. For example…
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