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Authored by Roger Martin February 11, 2014 Shared by Teresa Torres, MSLOC Student As I've written before, one of the biggest challenges facing designers is that they struggle to get their clients to adopt their design ideas. They hit a 'prove-it' wall: their clients ask for evidence that the design will succeed. The more radical and bold the design, the bigger a problem this is for the frustrated designer.

Kolko, Jon (2007), "Information Architecture and Design Strategy: The Importance of Synthesis during the Process of Design". In the 2007 Industrial Designers Society of America Conference proceedings.

Watch videos of this event. "DESIGN:Chicago Designers as Intra / Entrepreneurs April 3, 2014, 4-6:30 p.m. James R. Allen Center, Northwestern University "

By Eric Jaffe Shared by Keeley Sorokti, MSLOC alumna "By now we're all familiar with the stereotypes of different generations in the workplace. Boomers are workaholics who respect authority and have a lifelong loyalty to their company. Generation X employees prize a work-life balance. Millennials float from job to job and flaunt managerial authority and are too busy texting to care what you think of that. Given the popular consensus about office generational gaps--and the abundance of advice columns on bridging them--you'd think evidence for these traits would be strong. That's not at all the case, says management scholar John Bret Becton of University of Southern Mississippi. "We're always looking for a reason why people are different," Becton tells Co.Design. "But at least half of the research shows there's really not a lot of difference.""

IDEO article about what "design sensibilities" are and how to develop them.

Debate about the definition of Design Thinking. Great resources/ideas shared in the comments too.

Author: Nicole Carter Date: March 11, 2014 Shared by: Andee Weinfurter Description: It's the fourth day of SXSW Interactive, and though the throngs of geeks and enthusiasts are getting tired, it didn't stop a handful of them from lining up to see Patricia Korth-McDonnell, partner and managing director of design firm Huge, talk about chaos and creativity.

Purposeful organization through social technology Shared by Jessica Catz, MSLOC alum via Twitter on January 7, 2014

By Teresa Torres, MSLOC Student on her Product Talk blog July 12, 2012 There's been a lot of confusion around brainstorming these days. First, there was the New Yorker article by Jonah Lehrer claiming that brainstorming doesn't work. Scott Berkun wrote a rebuttal arguing Lehrer's logic was flawed. Twitter exploded with comments. I'm going to try to make sense of it all.

March 2, 2014 Shared by Keeley Sorokti, MSLOC alumna "Over the last few years, there has been an enormous amount of industry discussion about how the digital world is changing the way we work. To any reasonable observer, the ways that we communicate, interact, and collaborate with each other are all in the midst of profound change. At least the why seems fairly clear. At at high level, there appear to be three major root causes for why collaboration - the very core of how people come together and function as a business - is in the midst of reinvention: Hierarchical management styles break down in the face of the inherent complexity and scale of the modern business environment. New digital tools have put us in constant and direct contact with nearly every person in the developed world at virtually no cost or effort. Thus businesses are now primarily subject to the power laws of networks, rather than the legacy rules of business. There has been a sustained shift in the power of creation, as the edges of our organizations and marketplaces now have readily in hand as much - and often more - productive power and reach than our institutions. The obvious cause is today's pervasive global platforms for self-expression (yes, by this I largely mean social media, but also all forms of digital connectedness.)"

11/13/2013 by Andrew Campbell and Mark Lancelott Shared by Teresa Torres, MSLOC Student, on Twitter - @ttorres

November 25, 2013 by Lisa Evans Thanksgiving provides an opportunity to reflect on all that we're grateful for, but for some companies, gratitude is not a once-a-year occasion, but is a value embedded in their company culture. Shared by Dorie Blesoff, MSLOC Instructor

Shared by Dorie Blesoff, MSLOC 441 Designing Sustainable Strategic Change Instructor