eCarSharing: Energy Solutions for the New Generation
In 2015, Itai Ben-Jacob pitched his own ideas for a viable business model and developed the idea for innogy’s eCarSharing project in a design thinking workshop. His goal was to explore one of innogy’s innovation focus areas, ‘urban mobility.’
10 Design Thinking Tools describes tools that managers can use to identify and execute opportunities for growth and innovation. Discussed in this article are tools such as: visualization, journey mapping, value chain analysis, mind mapping, rapid concept development, assumption testing, rapid prototyping, customer co-creation, learning launches and storytelling.
In the early 2000s, Mayo Clinic physician Nicholas LaRusso asked himself a question: if we can test new drugs in clinical trials, can we in a similarly rigorous way test new kinds of doctor-patient interactions?
The last year has presented us with the challenge of planning and conducting research and filmmaking remotely. This has been a good opportunity to open new conversations and invite fresh, diverse and, in some cases, untested expertise into our network. We wanted to write something for those wondering what is possible vis-a-vis a remote research approach.
How do you systematically prototype, test, and scale up public sector policy and service responses to the challenges of Government?
There are only a few organizations where leadership is really strategic about the introduction and embedding of design/innovation capabilities. You don’t have to wait for top and middle management to deploy the ‘right’ conditions for you to innovate. All you need is to apply your creative energy to the systems and structures of your own organization and get a bit, umm … subversive.
OK, I take it back. Well, some of it anyway.
The Ministry of Manpower’s Work Pass Division (WPD) used design thinking as a tool to develop better ways to support foreigners who choose Singapore as a destination to live, work and set up businesses. The case reveals: Design thinking can potentially transform the perception and meaning of public service.
We are not just in one crisis — we are in multiple crises at once. The last decades in environmental destruction, human rights abuses, social unrests, failing political systems, and overly-powerful corporations have proven that. There can be no doubt that the economic, political, and social systems we have in place today will not sustain us.