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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.

Mayo Innovation Symposium

August 16, 2009

The Mayo Clinic is hosting a symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery at their Rochester, Minnesota campus in September.

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Paul Romer on charter cities

August 16, 2009

Paul Romer's talk on charter cities is up on the TED site.

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A new phase for Asia

August 16, 2009

The BBC excitedly reported today that Japan has experienced economic growth for the last quarter.

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Design Thinking at TED Global

July 31, 2009

It is just a week since TED Global finished I am only just now clearing my brain enough to be able to process some thoughts about the event.

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#CBDQ

July 15, 2009

I am speaking at TED Global in Oxford next week on the topic of what happens when we move from design to design thinking.

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Prevention versus productivity

July 12, 2009

Apologies for being off-line but I have been taking a bit of r&r.The current debate around health care reform is both interesting and depressing.

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How does purpose create an innovation advantage?

June 12, 2009

It may seem entirely obvious that organizations with a sense of purpose achieve greater levels of innovation than those that don't.

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d.light looking for Hindi speaking design thinkers

June 5, 2009

d.light, the solar powered lighting company that came out of the Stanford D-school, is looking for design thinkers in New Delhi.

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An inspirational message from Paul Hawken

June 4, 2009

Paul has long been one of the most inspirational guides for how to think imaginatively and sustainably but his Commencement address to the University of Portland in May is particularly good.Commencement Address by Paul Hawken, University of Portland, May 3rd,n2009nnWhen I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give ansimple short talk that was "direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate,nlean, shivering, startling, and graceful." Boy, no pressure there.But let's begin with the startling part.

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A curriculum for business design

May 28, 2009

IDEO colleague Ryan Jacoby has recently started a great blog about business design at do_matic.

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