Leading Business by Design: Why and how business leaders invest in design
Design is everything, because without it we have no business. … there is intense competition, and anybody can design a decent product. They can’t all design outstanding products. So, design is the...
View ArticleMillennials + Cars?
Millennials don’t care about owning cars and car makers can’t figure out why…there’s a headline that caught my eye....
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d.studio moves to new Sauder Learning Labs
Just an update (finally) on the move of the d.studio from Henry Angus 338 to the new Sauder Learning Labs. First an update on COMM 388 and its “expansion”. This term we have two studios happening....
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The Studio Summit: Copenhagen Business School
Angele and I attended the first Studio Summit at the Copenhagen Business School at the end of August. The Summit gathered together around 25 participants who teach in some form of studio in business...
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d.studio students work with iHUB new ventures
This term, one of the d.studio sections has been working with social enterprises who are part of the Coast Capital Saving iHUB. Each team of 5-6 students are working with a different “design/business...
View ArticleExpo Innovation Challenge: Milan Oct 9-11, 2015
There are no shortage of opportunities to engage in challenges these days — one in particular has come onto my radar screen because I am going to attend, give a workshop and float around the challenge...
View ArticleUBC Design Challenge: the art and science of solution making
Society needs new ways to find solutions to complex, wicked, systemic problems. Similarly, universities need new ways to engage students and faculty in co-creating useful solutions with external...
View ArticleLaunch of UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Back to school! And at UBC, we are launching our new Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs. The world is in the midst of major and rapid transformation: dramatic technological change, instability...
View ArticleBook Review Business Model Generation
By Zhenyu (Sherry) Xue – 2016 Mitacs Globalink intern at UBC d.studio On my first day as a research assistant at UBC d.studio, I was given this book to start my internship. I’m an undergraduate from...
View ArticleBook Review The Service Innovation Handbook
By Zhenyu (Sherry) Xue – 2016 Mitacs Globalink intern at UBC d.studio After reading Business Model Generation, I got my second reading assignment—The Service Innovation Handbook. Equipped with basic...
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