Opening Keynote Speaker at BelTech 2018

Digital design as a practice is undergoing change within the product-service continuum in the outcome economy. Seismic shifts in the era of cognitive commuting that includes AI, machine learning, IoT, IoE and born-in-the-cloud apps means that we have to deal with increasing complexity as the Industrial Revolution 4.0 disrupts every sector, transforming all manner of…

Traditional design models are failing…

Without a rigorous and sophisticated approach to design that incorporates HCD and DT that is lean and agile, businesses have no means of gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage.

The Many Different Flavours of Design Thinking

IBM Design Thinking Practice Books

Design Thinking has been around for a while and many design groups, consultancies and organisations have developed their own 'flavour' of design thinking to meet their particular design needs. It's interesting to see how this design thinking as a methodology and practice has evolved and been honed to be adapted to different contexts. If you wish…

Service Design Playbooks

IBM Methods Cards Service Design

In an ever more complex world, with seismic shifts in the way we work and live, there is increasing demand for new approaches to the way design as we transform business and industry. Developments in previously disjointed fields such as artificial intelligence, big data, cognitive computing, the internet, IoT and mobile are all conflating and…

Service Design Network Ireland Launches

We held the launch of the the Service Design Network National Chapter last night in Dublin, Ireland. With attendees from all over Ireland and from a diverse range of sectors, it was a huge success, with a full house at the Bank of Ireland, Trinity College and 90 people on the reserve list! Worry not we'll be holding another…

Service Design Network Ireland Launches

We held the launch of the the Service Design Network National Chapter last night in Dublin, Ireland. With attendees from all over Ireland and from a diverse range of sectors, it was a huge success, with a full house at the Bank of Ireland, Trinity College and 90 people on the reserve list! Worry not we'll be holding another…

Plum featured in Smart Home Tech

IOT Smart Tech Home

Plum  - a start-up in which I was an early angel investor has been mentioned in the media. Smart Home Tech The smart home market could grow from $46.97 Billion in 2015, to $121.73 Billion by 2022. VCs participated in nearly 40 equity deals to over 20 companies since 2011. Startups include: Appliances -- SectorQube,…

Service Design in Venture-as-a-Service

Service Design (SERVD) is the application of range of established and new design tools that are used to identify, define and optimise systems, touchpoints, people's roles and the ecologies that deliver innovative services. The Services Sector In the UK, there has been a massive shift in economic power from manufacturing to services in the past five decades. In 1948, British industry…

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