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Innovation

Innovation covers articles related to social innovation, disruptive innovation, and innovation case studies.

NEST thermostat
Innovation

Exploring Human-Centered Innovation: NEST CASE STUDY

11/13/201507/22/2020 - by Rafiq Elmansy

As RIBA’s policy officer, Emillia Plotka stated, “Access to energy consumption data at a larger scale could help identify energy-use hotspots and point to areas that could benefit from community energy or retrofitting schemes.”, a more need to innovation and creativity …

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Coworking space
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8 Tips to Finance Your Design Business

10/28/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

One of the major challenges facing designers and creative people seeking to start their own business—or moving their creative idea from their art studio labs to the market as a manufactured project—is finding the proper method to finance their business. …

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open innovation
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Report: Implementing Open Innovation to Drive Creativity inside Companies

10/19/201510/19/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Innovation and creativity are essential factors to achieve competitive advantages in market. Innovative companies adopt strategies that aim to improve both the input and output sides of the innovation equation through reducing the input costs or increasing the production volume …

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Uber service
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How Designers Can Achieve Disruptive Innovation

09/01/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

As people who continuously pursue creative change, designers need to understand the type of change that they are pursuing as well as how to achieve it. Change can be achieved through two types of innovation processes: Sustaining innovation and disruptive …

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doblins types of innovation
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Creative Diversity: Doblin’s 10 Types of Innovation

06/25/201504/07/2016 - by Rafiq Elmansy

In a previous article, we discussed Why Creative Companies Can’t Innovate, and we explored the reasons behind the failure of the innovation process in different companies working within the creative sector. One of the reasons behind this failure is the …

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Why Creative Companies Can’t Innovate

05/20/201505/20/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

There is noticeable agreement between scholars and practitioners about the positive correlation between innovation and achieving success within the market. Many countries adapt a national design policy to build a better economy such as the UK and Germany. However, the …

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swot analysis tool
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Six SWOT Analysis Tools and Applications

05/18/2015 - by Designorate Team

SWOT analysis is an essential tool for any organization to evaluate its position in the market based on four factors; Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat. While the strengths and weaknesses are considered internal factors, both opportunities and threats are considered …

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The Open Innovation Model’s role in Fueling Creativity

05/11/201505/11/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Scholars, practitioners and business leaders have agreed that innovation and creativity is essential to sustain success and achieve competitive advantage in the present market. While our main focus here is on the creative industries, top companies in different niches have …

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innovation in education
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10 Tips to Achieve Creativity and Innovation in Education

04/16/201512/23/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Our current world is evolving more rapidly than the capacity of any existing education system. The challenge of learning is getting even harder for the next generations. We do not have a prediction of how tomorrow will look like, but …

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disney creative strategy
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Disney’s Creative Strategy: The Dreamer, The Realist and The Critic

04/06/201504/07/2016 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Recently, we introduced a number of methods and tools to fuel innovation and creativity inside organizations through creative thinking and brainstorming such as Lego Serious Play, De Bono Six Thinking Hats and Reversed Brainstorming. Disney’s Creative Strategy is another tool …

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How to Identify Talented Innovation Leaders?

03/30/201503/30/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Most of the designers who have worked within a poor management environment understand how this context can hinder their creativity and ability to innovate, which in turn, dramatically decrease the chances of innovation and creativity inside the organization. This leads …

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3d printing technology
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Can We Depend on 3D Printing Technology at the Production Level?

03/25/201503/25/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

First of all, I am one of the biggest fans of the new 3D printing technology and see it as a game-changer in the product design industry. It opens the doors for designers to turn their ideas into workable projects …

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strategic innovation
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Turning strategic innovation Into Profit: Tips and Practices

03/11/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Innovation plays an essential role in a company’s success in the market. Large enterprises such as Apple, IKEA, Lego, Johnson & Johnson and others are paying much attention to innovation and leading the market with new products and solutions. Many …

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innovative organization
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White Paper: Building the Innovative Organization

01/26/201504/07/2016 - by Designorate Team

As we, in Designorate, try to provide useful resources for designers and design managers. We would like to introduce to you our first white paper resource, Building the Innovative Organization: A Select Literature Review of Key Factors of Organizational Innovation …

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creative leadership
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How to Maintain Creative Leadership inside an Organization

01/16/201501/16/2015 - by Rafiq Elmansy

Many companies provide examples that creative leadership can lead an organization to a better competitive position in the market and while building brand value. Examples of these companies include Apple, Lego, IKEA, Starbucks, Mercedes Benz and others.  In the center …

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