Design Thinking Resources
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How to Use Panelization Planning to Save Money and Resources
How to Use Panelization Planning to Save Money and Resources In this interview, Siemens’ Patrick McGoff speaks with Nolan Johnson about strategies to utilize panelization planning to save money and resources. Nolan Johnson: Patrick, please tell me about your role at Siemens. Patrick McGoff: I am the market development manager for the Valor division within Siemens. I have the responsibility to market and do sales enablement for the worldwide account teams for the promotion of the Valor DFM products. Johnson: You co-authored a white paper titled Lowering PCB Costs with Material Utilization. Since we’re going to be talking about … Read more
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The Intersection Of Understanding And Delivery
Camille Nicita is President & CEO of Gongos, Inc., a consultative agency focused on driving customer centricity for Fortune 500 companies. getty When it comes to upselling and loyalty programs, consumers live in a world full of rewards offers, frequent spending plans and other programmatic ways of building lifetime value. Rightfully so, as research shows that companies that lead in earning customer loyalty “grow revenues roughly 2.5 times as fast as their industry peers and deliver two to five times the shareholder returns.” Moreover, the global market for loyalty management sat right around $7.3 billion in 2020. With such … Read more
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MIT Students Make STEM Come Alive for Boston Middle Schoolers in Free, Virtual Camp Just Before School Reopens
More than 65 Boston Public School middle schoolers returned to classrooms this week with a reignited passion for STEM, having just finished a summer camp run by Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates. From Aug. 16 through 27, two groups of rising sixth- through ninth-graders embarked on a weeklong intensive STEM camp dubbed DynaMIT, a play on the school’s name. Founded in 2012 and now organized by about 15 students enrolled in perhaps the country’s most premier tech university, the free program brings critical thinking, design, science and engineering concepts to life for young people who have never participated in … Read more
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A month of intentional kindness
Alexander Lilly Born This Way Foundation launches its #BeKind21 campaign to make a better world In a world where you can be anything, be kind.The folks at Born This Way Foundation are taking that advice to the next level during the month of September with the #BeKind Campaign. Born This Way Foundation is asking people to pledge to #BeKind21 and “practice kindness toward yourself and others each day” throughout the month — and beyond. In doing so, they say, “You’ll help build kinder, more connected communities that foster mental wellness.” Recently, Taylor M. Parker, program associate with Born This … Read more
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Drexel’s new Center for Law and Transformational Technology will focus on legal issues in emerging tech
Drexel University’s Kline School of Law today announced its new Center for Law and Transformational Technology (CLTT), a group of researchers and resources focused on the legal issues emerging from the tech industry. The center will bring together researchers and industry leaders from law and tech backgrounds to strategize on the legal framework surrounding tech innovation, especially in newer disciplines like blockchain, AI and cryptocurrencies. Professor Jordan Fischer will head the center as its director. She’s a Kline graduate, and has been been teaching at the school since 2015. She also runs a private law practice with a focus … Read more
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MJV Technology & Innovation Launches Innovation Hub for Insurance Industry
MJV Technology & Innovation, a leading global consulting firm for design thinking and business transformation, announced the launch of a new resource portal for the insurance industry: the Insurance Hub. The platform contains resources and guides on topics ranging from design thinking, data strategy, digital transformation, and AI to help major insurance carriers adapt to digital disruption in the space. MJV has worked with seventeen of the world’s largest insurance companies and has more than 20 years of experience in the industry. The portal was created as a free resource that harnesses the firm’s vast experience … Read more
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Community debates Buncombe library plan
Is bigger always better, or is less sometimes more? Those two design philosophies are colliding in discussions over an $81 million slate of recommended changes to the Buncombe County Public Libraries. As outlined by architect Maureen Arndt, principal of Dallas-based consultancy 720 Architects, in a Library Master Plan commissioned by the county, the proposal would shift Buncombe’s system away from a hub-and-spoke design centered on Asheville’s Pack Memorial Library. The libraries would instead use a regional branch model, in which bigger, newly renovated facilities throughout the county provide patrons with more services. Such an approach, Arndt says, would boost … Read more