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Tinkering with a brand, whether public or private, and requesting the participation and precious time of others, is not something where you just roll out a platform and hope. We can and should get to the point where there is a degree of certainty in practice.
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Last night, I received a note from the Slideshare editors — the Redesigning America's Future booklet and my video describing why design policy is important is currently featured on the homepage.
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We are excited to announce that Chris Grams has joined New Kind as President and Partner. Chris has over 15 years of experience in the communications field, including 10 years at Red Hat, the world's leading open source software company. The open source way—including themes like openness,
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Last night I attended Shel Perkins presentation at an AIGA Raleigh event; I'm a big fan. I recommend Shel's book— Talent Is Not Enough— to any designer who is interested in the operations management of a creative firm. Shel takes the complicated issues of trademarks and
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Design Thinking proponents are often at odds with advocates of Six Sigma and other quality-driven, process programs. I have been no exception. It is not that I don't recognize the powerful competitive advantage such programs have driven over the past three decades. But in an age where
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New Kind Parter and Chief Design Officer, Matthew Muñoz, has been selected as one of 30 participants in this year's U.S. National Design Policy Summit on December 1 in Washington, DC. At the Summit, Matt will be collaborating with leaders from professional design, design education, and government
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Congratulations to our friend and Change Papers partner, Leslie Boney, on his appointment to the first ever North Carolina Innovation Council. Governor Beverly Purdue announced the establishment of the Council yesterday, which will take on the task of fostering strategic investments and forming policies to stimulate the growing knowledge and
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Georgia Institute of Technology recently launched the Center for Innovation in Local Government, a research center focused on improving the methods and processes of governing and better meeting the needs of citizens. New Kind is proud to collaborate with the Center through Art Seavey, contributing as a Research Associate.Through
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We can talk about creativity and innovation all day long, meld the culture, design the space, set up the infrastructure, and have a repeatable process for bringing ideas to market; but, the ultimate constraint and arbiter — making all other efforts useless — is the legal system. Monday, the Court he
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Twenty-five years ago, Governor Jim Hunt initiated the annual Emerging Issues Forum focusing on the topic of innovation. This February, the Forum will come full circle as his think-and-do tank, the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI), prepares for the 25th Annual Forum: Creativity, Inc.As the IEI
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Open source software development models are proof that large-scale, collaborative creative cultures drive powerful competitive advantage. As open source moves beyond the world of software development, messaging must move from evangelical models and must begin to focus more on the practice of open so
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Hopefully, many of you are aware of a project Matthew Munoz and I have undertaken with Leslie Boney— www.changepapers.org. In a recent post, one of our readers posted this quote from Machiavelli: