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Getting three hundred people to think together
For a long time, the large seminar followed a simple rule: inform in the morning, put people to work in the afternoon. That grammar is coming apart, and it is not a matter of fashion. It squanders a convention's most expensive resource: having brought all these people together in the same place at the same time. Bringing three hundred people together just to talk at them is a luxury that is hard…
Design thinking has left the post-it wall
Fifteen years after it arrived in companies, design thinking no longer stands out for its method. The five stages are well known, post-its are everywhere, and most teams know how to run an ideation workshop. What separates a workshop that produces from one that merely keeps people busy now lies elsewhere. In the rhythm it is given. In the energy of the team running it. In the clarity of roles. And…
