Tag Archives: Innovation

Humantific at Telefonica Madrid

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Admin
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Last week, Humantific’s Elizabeth Pastor was rocking away in Madrid teaching two back-to-back workshops at Telefonica. As part of an introduction to Humantific’s Complexity Navigation Program, Elizabeth taught A Glimpse into Visual SenseMaking and A Glimpse into Upstream Challenge Framing. Both sessions … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on THINK

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Admin

Last week, the Humantific team took a field trip to Lincoln Center to see the THINK Exhibit. Sponsored by IBM in honor of their centennial, it showcases the tech giant’s many achievements in science, business, and everyday life, as well … Continue reading →

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Humantific Teaches in Madrid

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Admin
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Humantific Teaches in Madrid: IED’s Masters of Design and Innovation Program Elizabeth Pastor, partner and co-founder of Humantific, taught at the European Institute of Design Madrid this summer. She held a one week workshop on innovation and visual sensemaking at … Continue reading →

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ReThinking Self-Organizing Innovation

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Admin
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Humantifc CoFounder GK VanPatter rerethinks the subject of self-organizing innovation. Having problems with getting innovation going on your cross-disciplinary team? Wasting alot of time and energy? Frustraion levels rising? Are you experiencing the High-High-Low Effect? We love self-organizing initiatives and … Continue reading →

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Thinking Made Visible Research

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Admin

We are delighted to see so much interest in Humantific’s Integrative Thinking Research Initiative. Much to our surprise viewers of the Design Thinking Made Visible Project story have exceeded 15,000. Posted for public viewing the research outcome included these findings: … Continue reading →

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New Visions, New Leaders

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Admin
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Humantific CoFounder Elizabeth Pastor is teaching this week in the Masters of Design and Innovation Program at IED in Madrid.

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Humantific at the BBC

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Admin
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Bringing Complexity Navigation Skills to the BBC in London Humantific is working with the BBC bringing Complexity Navigation Skills to their User Experience & Design senior leadership team this summer and fall seasons. Humantific’s Janet Getto and Elizabeth Pastor spent … Continue reading →

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Meet Me at MoMA

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Admin

Every month MoMA opens its doors to people with Dementia and their caregivers for a special visit. These guests don’t walk around the whole museum. Rather, they focus on four or five works in depth and engage in a conversation … Continue reading →

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NextD Workshops Registration Open!

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Admin
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New York City: July 26–29, 2011 (9am-6pm) Register on nextd.eventbrite.com. WorkshopONE: Exploring cross-disciplinary innovation now! WorkshopTWO: Understanding cross-disciplinary innovation now! WorkshopTHREE: Leading cross-disciplinary innovation now! ARE YOU READY? Are you ready to cut through all the baloney and hype around … Continue reading →

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WONE, TWO & THREE Coming Soon!

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Admin
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We have received many requests for NextD Workshops ONE, TWO & THREE and they are coming at the end of July! WorkshopONE: Exploring the Language of Innovation! 1 day workshop WorkshopONE is both a mind awakening experience as well as … Continue reading →

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The Power of Your Mind

Posted on May 20, 2011 by GK VanPatter
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We love and respect innovation history. In the marketplace we see some experts running around claiming to have invented everything from integrative thinking to various forms of innovation. To us such claims are nonsense. We all stand on the shoulders of … Continue reading →

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MIT Creates Driver Nodes Algorithm

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Admin

Building on “more than half a century of research in the field of control theory” Jean-Jacques Slotine of MIT and his colleagues have created a “new computational model that can analyze any type of complex network…and reveal the critical points … Continue reading →

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Remaking Meaning?

Posted on May 5, 2011 by GK VanPatter

Thoughts on AIGA’s One Day For Design Since a lot of what we do here at Humantific is upstream strategy cocreation with organizations as part of change making initiatives, we were somewhat puzzled to see how AIGA (formerly American Institute … Continue reading →

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Innovation History Collection

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Annie Hill

A recent addition to Humantific’s ever growing Innovation History Archive: Alex Osborn’s pioneering 1953 book Applied Creativity made into a two record set in 1964. A very rare find indeed! Check out that adjustable wrench! We know you are jealous … Continue reading →

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NextD Archive Launches

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Annie Hill

NextDesign Leadership Institute founded by GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor has launched its Archive online. More than 30 NextD Journal conversations are being posted. See the conversations that informed the creation of numerous NextD sensemaking frameworks 2002-20010 including NextDesign EcoSystem … Continue reading →

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