Building Creative Teams

A short statement on building creative teams.

https://qsblc.ucd.ie/videos/building-creative-teams-and-collectives/

And a link to the whole collection of Learning Insights from the UCD Lochlann Quinn School of Business.

https://qsblc.ucd.ie/channels/#learning-insights

The Human Centred Design Kit

Reimagining the shopping cart - IDEO's deep dive process filmed for ABC’s late-night news show Nightline (1999), narrated by Ted Koppel (link).

IDEO have put together a little book on design research ethics - do no harm right! (link)

"Respect your participants!
Some methods depend upon other people, often strangers, sharing generously their time, thoughts, and feelings. Have consideration for their health, safety, privacy, and dignity at all times.
Her are some principles that guide IDEO's interactions with participants:

• approach people with courtesy

• identify yourself, your intent, and what you are looking for

• offer to compensate participants

• describe how you will use this information and why it's valuable

• get permission to use the information and any photos or video you take

• keep all the information you gather confidential

• let people know they can decline to answer questions or stop participating at any time

• maintain a nonjudgmental, relaxed, and enjoyable atmosphere" (IDEO, 2003)

IDEO.org has also created a set of resources for human-centred design for impact in challenging environments. The Field Guide is a new take on the IDEO design cards which I have used for teaching for a number of years. The examples/cases in the book provide nice illustrations for my students. Go to designkit.org for Design Kit: The Human-Centered Design Toolkit from IDEO for a range of resources and courses - many free.

Books, guides, and free downloads from designkit.org

• From IDEO itself on the Method cards (link).
• As a diversion, MethodKit have indexed a large collection of social, entertainment, cultural and business purpose card sets (link)

The poster presentations

For the group project for “Managing Strategy and Innovation in a Digital Era” students were asked to create posters for an interactive poster presentation session. Photos from the day are attached below.

The class of 2016-17 

Photos from the design/build challenge 2017-18

Guest lecture: MIS40920 BusInfo Systems Mgt (for ME/MEngSc programmes)

Q115 10-11am, April 4, 2018.
Research articles - discussion of the following articles.

Both articles are readily accessible via the library's OneSearch function.

• Catmull, E. (2008). How pixar fosters collective creativity. Harvard Business Review, 89(9):9.
• Hargadon, A. B. and Bechky, B. A. (2006). When collections of creatives become creative collectives: A field study of problem solving at work. Organization Science, 17(4):484– 500.

The situation is... yes and...

Establish an understanding of shared knowledge 
Q: what do I know about...
...writing software?
...software engineering?
...working in teams?

Knowledge of engineering management concepts divulged in class

A framing device for locating creativity along origin and time