Strategic Thinking: Techniques Tool-kit available

Hi all:

We finally have a number of techniques (36 at this point) up on the d.studio web-site.

http://dstudio.ubc.ca/toolkit/techniques/

These should be useful for Project 2 and then again for your Global Immersion projects, if not for any other classes where you might be “stuck” in terms of next steps in problem solving.  Test them out — and I’d be happy to have feedback as to what worked and what didn’t in various situations.

See you tomorrow at the Business Model Workshop — and sorry that I can’t make the bowling party.

Best,

Moura

Directed Studies Opportunity for January 2013: co-creating sustainable global cities

Hi all:
I am looking for an MBA student who might be interested in doing a Directed Study with me next term (starting January) on the topic of co-creating sustainable cities.  I am fairly open as to the direction this DS might take so we can “co-create” the learning outcomes and deliverables together.  Murali assures me that some of you have the flexibility to do Directed Study.

As part of my role as Chair of the Campus-City Collaborative, (the six post secondary institutions in Vancouver + City of Vancouver with a goal of helping the City achieve its greenest city targets) I am involved with an organization called the World Class Cities Partnership (WCCP).  http://nuweb9.neu.edu/wccp/

The WCCP brings together civic, business and academic leaders from cities spanning the globe – Barcelona, Boston, Dublin, Guadalajara, Haifa, Hamburg, Lisbon, Lyon, and Vancouver – for the purpose of creating sustainable social change through policy research, and development and implementation of best practice solutions to common challenges.

This year’s policy research topic is Co-Creating Sustainable Cities– analyzing methods of engagement and data sources to address such urban processes as crowd sourcing, alternative financing, development proposals, and municipal budgeting in the effort to make cities more sustainable and economically successful. City officials around the world increasingly recognize the power and potential of opening processes traditionally thought of as the responsibility of city governments to the public.

The WCCP hub is at North Eastern University in Boston.  This term a practicum experience has been running that provides an opportunity for students to work on a client project, gain real-world experience, engage in primary data collection, apply research methods to policy issues, and develop relationships with local and global WCCP participants.

Next term a number of the WCCP member cities’ post secondary institutions are looking to mount directed studies as well — so we will network the students working on various WCCP projects.  I can send more info if you are interested.

Please email me at moura.quayle@sauder.ubc.ca.

All the best,

Moura

 

Invitation to inaugural meeting of Sauder Strategic Design Club

Hi all:

Am missing seeing you — have been away at Business Innovation Factory Story Summit in Rhode Island http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/bif-8  and visiting Weatherhead Management School in Cleveland who also have a design/business program in their MBA.

Wanted to invite you to the inaugural meeting of the Sauder Strategic Design Club — next Wednesday October 3 from 5:30-7:00pm in the d.studio — Henry Angus 338.  The idea is to have  a monthly (more or less) studio session where we tackle problems/opportunities initiated from the participants using design processes and techniques to tackle them.

Speaking of techniques — we are just working on putting the final touches on the Techniques Tool Kit — will send a blog when that link is up and running.

Hope to see some of you next Wednesday — realize that you are busy-busy!  Feel free to let me know if you are coming at moura.quayle@sauder.ubc.ca.  Would be good to get a bit of a handle on numbers — am also inviting some Early Career Masters students and the studio class:  Comm 388: Design Strategies for Business Innovation.

Best, Moura

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