MS&E 277 – Creativity & Innovation. Tina Seeling’s Management Science & Engineering class at Stanford University.
I’m a bit late on this one but I decided to write something quick anyway. Our group was a bit sleepy in class so Perry Klebahn led our discussion. He asked us a series of seemingly innocent questions about our business and we eventually had our values, strategies and processes. Obviously you want the values, strategies, …
My single biggest lesson from Tuesday’s class was that in all of the four companies we talked to (Facebook, 1185 Design, Experience Project, Cooliris) the buck still stops with the CEO. I’d definitely expect that in a 10 person company, but not in a 1400 person company. These leaders are involved not only with the …
Hmmmm…I need to stop putting these off until the last minute… Just like publishers need to stop middleman-ing authors…or that was at least the perception I got having talked to one author and entrepreneur on Thursday. What was so surprising thought was that the specific publisher and author I talked to had such opposing views …
I actually have waaaay too much to say about the card house activity, so I’m actually going to pick a topic we touched on in class during the discussion because I’m no where near done thinking about some other things I observed. Framing: “us versus them” I was in the winning…erm sharing…ecosystem. “We” were the …
We really clicked on Tuesday. Katy, our designer, rocked. Thank you so much! Caroline was our Anthro expert and Ashling made the team’s ideas a reality. Steve, Pablo, and I filled in the gaps. I really don’t know what else to say… Pablo and Ashling already nailed our story with great images I won’t reproduce. …
Class #9 – Creativity under Pressure – Reflect on your experience in class today. It’s a bit late so I’m going to keep this very concise. Main takeaways: When under a time pressure have a blue hat/moderator keeping you on task (and lying about the remaining time if necessary). Make a plan and structure and …
First, some entertainment. I like to read but I don’t really like books. So I spent a few minutes questioning the assumptions we generally hold about books. The future of books – So I’m going to keep the reading and words parts of books but I might kill the paper, booky part of books. Paper …
