Creative Confidence Podcast
IDEO U
IDEO’s Creative Confidence Podcast shares candid conversations with creative leaders, changemakers, and innovators navigating today’s most pressing challenges. Through real-world stories and insights, we explore how to lead with creativity, build resilient teams, and drive innovation. Grounded in IDEO’s 40 years of expertise in design thinking and innovation, each episode offers inspiration and practical tools for audacious leaders at every stage of their careers. Hosted by Mina Seetharaman, Head of New Ventures at IDEO, the podcast brings a human-centered lens to the complexities of making more courageous futures. Discover more at IDEOU.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 23, 2018 • 47min
How to Build a Better Business Through Design
At IDEO, we believe that you can design the parts of a business just like you can any product, service, or brand. As Amy points out, it’s about realizing that it’s not just product design that makes a company successful in the market—it’s about the business model, the revenue model, the operations, the strategy, and even the IT. It’s about blending the rigor of traditional business strategies and tools with design, all in the service of meeting a human need.Learn how to apply the skills and mindsets of business design to your next product, service, or business. Join our Designing a Business course opening June 13: http://ideo.to/BQP8sg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 18, 2018 • 45min
On Catalysts and Barriers to Innovation in Latin America
This podcast explores the growth of design thinking in Latin America, with a focus on addressing education and infrastructure challenges. It discusses the importance of understanding local needs and the role of digital transformation. The podcast also shares stories and tips from the community on applying design thinking principles in the workplace. Additionally, it explores the significance of creating collaborative spaces, compares innovation efforts in Peru and Argentina, and discusses implementing design thinking in organizations.
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Apr 30, 2018 • 35min
How to Be a Better Storyteller
Storytelling for Influence Instructor and IDEO Design Director Jenn Maer and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard discussed the tools and mindsets that can help you become a master storyteller, prototype your story, and bring your audience along on an emotional journey.Dive in deeper and learn more from Jenn Maer in our online Storytelling for Influence course: http://ideo.to/RLx5VL Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 1, 2018 • 43min
Tackling Big Change in Your Organization
Owen Rogers works with companies on some of their biggest existential challenges. In this Creative Confidence Series episode, we chat with Owen, IDEO Partner and Senior Design Lead, about the human-centered approach to creating sustainable change within organizations and his tips for empowering and developing leaders. To learn more about creating change within your team and organization, enroll in our online course Designing for Change: http://ideo.to/PlIsI4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 9, 2018 • 40min
What’s Your Superpower—and its Shadow Side?
Your Superpower is your contribution, the role that you’re put on this Earth to fill. It’s what you do better than anyone else. Tapping into it will not only help your team, but you’ll find your work more satisfying, too.Here's the full recap: http://ideo.to/xYVsmT Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 1, 2018 • 43min
Designing a Better Food System
In the latest Creative Confidence Series chat, Lynda Deakin, Managing Director of IDEO’s Design for Food studio, joined Suz to chat about ways design can enable system-wide change in the food industry. As Lynda answered live questions from our community, she touched on themes from food waste to the changing retail environment, to why it’s important to work with big food companies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 16, 2018 • 48min
How to Make Your Culture More Entrepreneurial with Eric Ries
Eric and Suz chat about how to help your company change mindsets and become more experimental, lean, and accountable. Eric's observation is that these days big companies want to be startups and startups want to be big companies. But somewhere along the way, as any organization grows, it gets mired in bureaucracy that’s resistant to innovation. This is because they’re following a dated blueprint for doing business, which hasn’t changed much in 100 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 29, 2017 • 47min
Blockchain and Distributed Web 101
We sat down with CoLab’s Joe Gerber and Gavin McDermott to talk about the distributed web and blockchains and why it's important to experiment with this emerging technology. Many people see blockchain technology as bitcoin, but as Joe and Gavin discuss, bitcoin is just the tip of the spear and one small piece of a larger movement of blockchain technology and the distributed web. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 8, 2017 • 29min
Tips for How to Prototype a Service
How do you prototype designing something that isn’t tangible, like a service?In this Creative Confidence Series webcast, IDEO Partner and Managing Director Ilya Prokopoff and IDEO U Managing Director Suzanne Gibbs Howard will guide us through their process for service design prototyping, share examples of successful past service design prototypes, and discuss how these prototypes can often lead to increased clarity and confidence behind ideas.Read more: http://ideo.to/PSxf75 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 25, 2017 • 43min
Advice from IDEO’s Chief Creative Officer on Inspiring Creative Work
We spoke with Paul about what he sees as cornerstones of creative leadership, how to catalyze people toward action, and his no fear attitude toward delving into the void—aka darker more challenging topics like death and aging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
