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It did not go unnoticed that there was some irony in having several hundred people assemble in Dubai last week (see my previous post) to discuss how to make global institutions and systems more sustainable, especially given this week's announcement of delayed debt repayments by Dubai World.Despite this, or perhaps because of it, there was plenty of robust conversation about how a shift in values within our economies was called for.

There is a discussion going on amongst some of my colleagues about the merits of minimalism versus simplicity.My own view is that minimalism has come to represent a style and as such is limited in its usefulness.

Apologies for the unabashed self promotion but for a first time author, today is a big day.

One of the most important ideas about design thinking is that it creates new ideas that provide new choices for business and society.

I spent last week at the Mayo Clinic symposium on health care innovation called Transform.

Sara Beckman of the Haas Business School has written a great article in the New York Times about Six Sigma and design thinking called Welcoming the New, Improving the Old.

I posted about the Human Centered Design (HCD) Toolkit back in December.

Dan Pink's talk is now up on TED.com.

Lego reported a 23% rise in revenues and a 60% rise in profits for the first six months of 2009.

On my way from Chicago O'Hare airport to our office in Evanston today I saw powerful evidence of the state of the auto industry in this part of the world.