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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 began to dive
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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:
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New Kind partner Matthew Muñoz participated in the AIGA tradition of 20/20 at this year's Make/Think Design Conference in Memphis.
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New Kind partner David Burney was recently recognized as a 2009 Fellow by AIGA, the professional association for design. The celebration took place at the Design Legends Gala held last month at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.
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The idea of community governance is getting a little more respect these days. Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist at Indiana University, won 1/2 of the Nobel Prize in economics this week.
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I thought I would share a sample of the best quotes from Harvard Business Review's JULY/AUG 2009 edition. While these thoughts and research-based ideas may be new to the business world, they are not to the design world.
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In the July/August issue of the Harvard Business Review, there’s an interesting article identifying “The 10 Trends You Have To Watch.” Honestly, I love the HBR, but these ‘trends’ do make me smile a bit.
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John Shook's new book, Managing To Learn, offers these important principles every innovative organization should learn from... 1. Almost always, the problem you face is different from the one you thought you were facing. 2. Most of us are so eager to find (and deliver) the solution to a problem that
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The influential design blog Core77 adds New Kind to a growing list of influential regional design groups building on the efforts of the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative (NDPI).