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Are you looking for an external innovation boost?
Do you want to improve your innovation abilities and discover breakthrough business model innovations, products or services for your company?

Experience Stanfords pioneered innovation process and challenge graduate student teams from the University of St. Gallen and Stanford University.

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Our #designthinking #startup gives a first glimpse of their product called “stablish.me”

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  Our startup, the Design Thinking Startup AG, is a spinoff of the Institute of Information Management from the University of St. Gallen. With the help of the Design Thinking method, they came up with a business idea called stablish.me. Stablish.me will enable internet users to highlight their competencies and to create an authentic image on the web. To that end, the Design Thinking Startup AG is currently developing a badge system that enables anyone to visualise their talents, skills, interests and personality traits. While currently internet users portray themselves in a number of social media and other platforms, stablish.me will turn … read more

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SUGAR Global Teaching Team Meeting

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  We are happy to announce the first SUGAR Global Teaching Team Meeting event on March 21st 2012 at DT Loft St. Gallen. Together with Design Thinking teachers from Italy, Finland, Ireland, Paris and Switzerland, we will discuss the future of global Design Thinking teaching. We are looking forward to this exciting event!

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Tell us your favorite innovation within the connected world!

**Win an iPad!** Our everyday life is increasingly interweaved with smart interconnected products and services. The way information is gathered and shared is being reshaped at its core. We have changed the way we interact with each other, and how we interact with products and companies. Every interaction generates data, which offers potential to improve products and services. We are looking for the most innovative and most useful interaction innovations that changed the relationship between customers (end and business costumers) and the products and companies. Post your favorite examples below until 14th of March 2012 and with some luck you will … read more

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Design Thinking at Deutsche Bank

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Design Thinking at Deutsche Bank: The most unexpected internship within the banking sector. A rare chance to get first-hand information on how innovation projects take shape within our corporation and how cultural change can offer great opportunities. Moreover the videos emphasize the method coaching by our Design Thinking Coaches throughout the project. We want to take the opportunity to say ‘thank you’ to our project partner Deutsche Bank. We are looking forward to another exciting Design Thinking year with you. Design Thinking at Deutsche Bank – Meet the design team Design Thinking at Deutsche Bank – The Bankers’ view Design … read more

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SUGAR 11 Poster (click here for download)

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Check out the new SUGAR poster everyone. Follow this link to download the high-resolution file.

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Wir suchen Unterstützung – jetzt bewerben!

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Hast Du Interesse an einer Teilzeitstelle (ca. 30-40%) im Bereich Design Thinking? Wir suchen per sofort eine studentische Hilfskraft zur Unterstützung unseres Teaching Teams! Zu den Tätigkeiten zählen unter anderem die Aufbereitung von Forschungsdaten, die Unterstützung des  Teams bei der Vorbereitung von internen und externen Workshops sowie grösseren Veranstaltungen und Reisen, die Unterstützung bei Marketingaktivitäten und die Pflege der Homepage dthsg.com. Wir erwarten die Bereitschaft zur engagierten und selbständigen Mitarbeit im Team. Kenntnisse im Bereich Design Thinking sind wünschenswert. Die Tätigkeit beginnt per sofort (oder n.V.). Weitere Infos findest Du im PDF anbei. Bewirb Dich jetzt! Das Teaching Team freut … read more

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Verstärkung des Teaching Teams

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Wir heissen ganz herzlich unsere beiden neuen Design Thinking Kollegen Sophie Bürgin und Marco Torrente willkommen. Die beiden unterstützen seit der vergangenen Woche unser Teaching Team, sowohl rund um den Kurs, als auch im “Embedded”, wie auch in anderen anstehenden Projekten. Sophie, die Designmanagement in Luzern studierte, hat unteranderem, bei unserem Partner Deutsche Bank 2011 Design Thinking Expertise gesammelt. Diplomwirtschaftsingenieur Marco, der vor kurzem sein Studium in München abgeschloss, hat ebenfalls in diversen Design Thinking Projekten am Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship in München mitgewirkt. Gecoacht wurde er dabei wiederum vom ehemaligen CEO von IDEO Deutschland,  Alexander Grots. Daneben hat er … read more

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Erfolgreich finanziert – Design Thinking Startup

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Das Team an der Stanford University. Von links nach rechts: Dominic Zünd (Universität Zürich), Ivan Giangreco (Universität Basel), Benedikt Escher (Universität St.Gallen), Fabio Carlucci (Universität St.Gallen) _ Nach einem erfolgreichen Funding von 100.000 CHF (via der Schweizer Crowdfunding Plattform c-crowd) kam in diesem aktuellen Semester ein ganz spezielles Team im Design Thinking Kurs zustande: Ein Design Thinking Startup Team, das diesesmal nicht für ein globales Unternehmen arbeitet, sondern durch die Masse finanziert eine eigene AG gründet und zum Ziel hat in zehn Monaten ein innovatives Geschäftsmodell zu entwickeln. Dabei handelt es sich nicht nur um Studenten der HSG, sondern sind … read more

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SUGAR 2011

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SUGAR is a design thinking pedagogy workshop for interdisciplinary collaboration with corporate partners. SUGAR is co-sponsored by faculty and staff at the University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland, under the leadership of Professors Walter Brenner and Falk Uebernickel. This event is hosted in Palo Alto by the Center for Design Research at Stanford under the leadership of Professors Larry Leifer and Martin Steinert.

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