Category Archives: University course

Method Cards – beta 1.0
25/07/2011

This set of method cards introduces briefly the design thinking approach. It explains the design process as well as the prototyping phases of design thinking projects. There basically 2 ways of getting involved with the University of St.Gallen in order to have a design thinking team working for your organization. 1. Design Thinking @ HSG – Have a team of master students working on solutions for your company throughout 10 months. 2. Embedded Design Thinking – Set up a team within your organization, which then is coached & enabled by our teaching team. Both ways are explained in the set. … read more

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EXPE in St.Gallen
12/07/2011

Having presented the final prototypes to the Stanford peers in June it was time to invite to the same kind of event in St.Gallen. The teams gave presentations and showed their prototypes in action. The corporate partners were more than happy with the final results, as some have a high probability of being patended. We were happy to welcome many well-known as well as many new faces to the EXPE, which took place at the wonderful sunny Executive Campus in St.Gallen. Among our guests was Prof. Larry Leifer from Stanford University. Thank you for coming! A big “Thank you” also … read more

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EXPE at Stanford University
12/07/2011

At the beginnning of June our 7 teams of the 2010/2011 DT@HSG course were traveling to Stanford University to present their final prototypes together with all the other global teams of the ME310 network. Every team gave a short presentation first in front of a huge crowd of Stanford peers before everyone came together for the so called EXPE(rience). You can wander around, visit teams at their booths and you get the chance to try out every single prototype. Every team has been doing an incredible job and the presentations were highly entertaining. It has been an great week and … read more

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Corporate Partners wanted
20/05/2011

Become a corporate sponsor of a design thinking team at the University of St. Gallen. This team can also be a global team with students from stanford university. Over 10 months these students will tackle your innovation challenges that you give them at the beginning of the course. The team will be in close contact with your company and present prototypes and findings for each predefined milesstone. The benefits of design thinking @HSG Young creative master students Use the capabilities of 3 highly motivated, qualified and young master students from HSG for 10 months. Prototyping Over 15 prototypes and more … read more

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Team Gauselmann and Team Ball visit HQs
21/04/2011

During the past week two of our Design Thinking Teams have been busy traveling to their Sponors’ HQs in Germany. Team Gauselmann went to Lübbecke to sit together with internal experts regarding the hardware and software that is needed to put the final prototype together. Also we got the chance to see the production line as well as the impressive collection of historic vendors in a museum hosted by the Gauselmann Group. The Ball Packaging Team has also visited its Project Partner and Sponsor Ball, which is one of the world’s biggest can manufacturer, located in Bonn. The team, as … read more

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Teams prepairing for their winter presentations
17/03/2011

Coming monday (21th March) all the corporate sponsors of the teams will be visiting St.Gallen for a 2 days-workshop and also for the Teams’ winter presentations. News: We are very proud to welcome our friends Dr. Tamara Carleton and Dr. William Cockayne from Stanford University to give us a presentation on Foresight Thinking. For more information please follow this link. The Students Teams are therefore  busy with prepairing their presentations and also with the wireframing of their functional prototypes. Last monday  the student teams were presenting their functional prototypes in front of the course and the teaching team. The visions … read more

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