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From 2008-2018, designthinking.ideo.com was the home of IDEO's design thinking blog, written by our former CEO and current Executive Chair of IDEO, Tim Brown. This is an archive of his thoughts. You can read Tim's more current work on his LinkedIn page. You can also visit IDEO's Blog, The Octopus, here.

Davos posts

January 31, 2011

I was posting on the World Economic Forum blog at Davos last week.

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Permission to Innovate

December 31, 2010

I was given the opportunity to contribute to the HBR Agenda 2011 and wrote a short piece on the idea of successful companies earning 'permission to innovate' from customers and stakeholders.

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Steal this idea

December 31, 2010

The first two OpenIDEO challenges have recently been completed and now the trick is spreading the best ideas with the goal to have some be implemented.

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Checks and balances

November 29, 2010

In a conversation over breakfast this morning an architect friend was relaying a conversation she in turn had had the previous evening with someone influential in the world of economics.

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Design nations

October 31, 2010

I am off to Singapore in a week for my first visit.

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The future of the book

September 21, 2010

Some folks in the New York office of IDEO have been thinking about the future of the book and how it shows up as an experience on tablets.

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Design story: The Decanter

August 12, 2010

Design story: The Decanter from Landor Associates on Vimeo.For a wonderful "Mad Men" era video about design check out the decanter video from Landor.

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OpenIDEO

August 1, 2010

We have been working on a project for a while now that we are very excited about.

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Local Design

July 31, 2010

I don't generally travel to rural Oxfordshire, the place in England where I grew up, for design inspiration.

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HackFwd

June 8, 2010

I don't usually write about things IDEO is directly involved in but I am making an exception here.Lars Hinrichs, founder of the social networking site for professionals XING, launched his next enterprise today.

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