Historywatching

What historical future predictions can teach us now.



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The Ideas Compass

"The Ideas Compass is the place where small and medium-sized companies can find inspiration to innovate and evolve. The focus of this website is on CSR-driven innovation – an innovation process focusing on current social and environmental needs which gives companies an opportunity to develop sustainable products or services."

"CSI (Corporate Social Innovation) is also called sustainable innovation. CSI is about creating a good business by having sustainability as a focal point when the corporation develops a new product or service.

This entails developing products or services which may relieve some of the world's problems, such as disease, contaminated water, CO2 emission, hunger or the lack of education.

CSI is also referred to as CSR innovation. CSI is useful for businesses which work with innovation and/or CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)."

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// The Design with Intent Toolkit v.0.9

"Design can be used to influence users’ behaviour.

From the layout of shopping malls to digital rights management, our everyday lives are full of examples of products, systems and environments which have been designed to shape, guide or control – influence – our behaviour, using a wide range of techniques: technological, physical or psychological.

Intended commercial benefit is a major reason behind this; intended social benefit can be too (though it’s often fraught with politics). Sometimes the behaviour-shaping is helpful to the user; sometimes it’s serving someone else against the user’s best interests. Sometimes it’s trying to get the user to do something; sometimes it’s trying to stop the user doing something.

The common factor to all of this is intent on the part of the designer/engineer/planner or his or her corporate/political masters. This is Design with Intent: strategic design that’s intended to influence or result in certain user behaviour."






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Board of innovation

Business & revenue model examples

"The most successful innovations are not on product or service level, but in rethinking your business model. This database captures existing and innovative business models from across the globe and across industries. Zopa, Skype, free newspapers, YouTube, RadioHead… successful new concepts are visually mapped with generic building blocks to make them easily understandable (read more: How to build any business model with only 10 blocks). Our aim is to identify the underlying innovation in the business system, and make it transferable to other industries. You can browse through our growing database, identify new monetization strategies, comment, submit new ventures for review…"



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37 ways voor dienstinnovatie by Marc Heleven

37 Ways Diensteninnovatie

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future scenario thinking

HOE ZIET MOBILITEIT ER IN 2088 UIT?
Het ligt nog ver voor ons, maar een aantal deskundigen durven al te speculeren over hoe personenvervoer er in 2088 uit zal zien. Gaan we zwaartekracht overwinnen of zelfs teleporteren? ...

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The most important piece of software for an Industrial Designer

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The future of design is human-centered

Low-key and thoughtful, IDEO founder David Kelley seems the antithesis of the "design star" -- and indeed, he says that product design, within the past two decades, has become much less about the design and more about the user who'll be experiencing it. In this classic 2002 talk, he shares some video of products coming out of IDEO, including Prada's famous high-tech dressing rooms, "Dilbert's ultimate cubicle," and a gotta-have-it gadget called Spyfish. He finishes by discussing a project he's passionate about: ApproTEC -- now called KickStart -- offering designs that give Kenyans the means to end poverty.

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THE FUTURE OF ADVERTISING - PAUL ISAKSON