Tag: design thinking
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The G/g Learning Paradigm: How High-Performing Teams Learn While They Deliver
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Most organisations treat learning and delivery as separate activities. The G/g paradigm pairs every delivery commitment with one deliberate capability goal — practiced inside the live work, not alongside it. Rooted in a Nokia innovation studio story that eventually became the Storytelling mindset in the Five Mindsets framework.
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Demolition of Pre concieved ideas
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Roses and Sushi — A Tale There is a particular kind of stubbornness that lives inside organisations. It doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t show up in the risk register or get flagged in the retrospective. It wears the face of experience, speaks in the language of trust, and calls itself…
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VIBE Coding Crushes the Design Process — and Makes Real Designers More Essential Than Ever
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For years, we have worshipped at the altar of The Process. You know the one. User research. Personas. Journey maps. Wireframes. All of it completed before a single line of code is written. All of it delivered in decks that travel up and down the organisation, accumulating feedback, losing specificity,…
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Customer-Centricity Is Not a Workshop: It’s a Power Shift
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Why most enterprises misunderstand what customer focus actually requires. “Customer-centricity” is one of the most overused phrases in corporate life. It appears in strategies, values statements, and town halls. It features in leadership principles and onboarding decks. It is invoked at the start of transformation programs and engraved on the…
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How Wicked Problems may be the breakthrough for your transformation
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Why wicked problems are not an obstacle to change — they are the precondition for it. Most organizational transformations fail before they begin. Not because the methodology is wrong. Not because the people lack capability. Not because leadership is unsupportive. They fail because the problem was chosen for convenience rather…
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When a Snake Came Out of the Wall
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Yesterday I sat on the living room floor with my four-year-old nephew. He had just watched a movie where the main character eats a mysterious mushroom and shrinks to ten centimeters tall. Small enough to climb furniture. Small enough to see the world from the level of dust and carpet…
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Taking creative control of the AI imaging
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Sketch-first, AI-second: how I used “visual assistance sketching” with Nana Banana to regain control in concept development The last few days I’ve been doing a small but telling concept development project for my wife’s creative studio in Copenhagen. We’ve talked for a while about adding a greenhouse in the courtyard…
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Leadership for the Complex and Chaotic present (DIS presentation link)
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From Engineering Logic to Situational Leadership The presentation linked above is one I recently gave to hundreds of business leaders with strong engineering and operational backgrounds. The audience spanned senior managers, technical leaders, and decision-makers responsible for navigating complexity in large organizations. What stood out in the feedback was not…