IDEO Teaches Important Skills for Innovation

Dave Blakely, one of the leaders at design firm IDEO, has very important things to say-Watch his video.

I have met Dave a number of times and I always learn something important from him.
Note what he says about:

• Social responsibility
• "T-Shaped" skills and Human Centered Approach.
• Empathy as key to success
• Need to understand and consider business- cost/ pricing, strategies and tactics
• Constraints- are important to innovation
• Suspend judgment in early stages of ideation and "Encourage wild ideas"
• Prototyping, low fidelity- "Right, Rapid and Rough"
• Keep learning forever
• Learn from your failures.
• Engineering education leading to other opportunities.