To find out where you are on the culture curve, take this simple test #designthinking #change #innovation

Transformation is in the air. Business leaders across industries are recognizing that “old school” management isn’t up to the task of nonstop innovation. As a result, companies that were once run from the top down are steadily shifting to a more networked style of management in which employees and customers play a greater role in driving innovation. Networked cultures tend to be more creative, more agile, and better able to anticipate the needs of customers.

How do you create a culture of innovation? By recognizing one simple fact: If you want to innovate, you’ve got to design. Design and design thinking are the tools that create new products, new services, new business models, new markets, and new industries. The best way to leverage innovation—as outlined in my latest book—is to build a “designful company”. (Buy the book.)

To find out where you are on the culture curve, take this simple test: Share a total of 10 points across each of the 10 pairs below. For example, if your company is more siloed than collaborative, you might score it 6 and 4. When you’ve finished, add up the two columns to measure your progress. If your totals come out to 60 and 40, for example, you could say that you’re 40% along the path to an innovative culture.

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Amazing erratic live music : little birds play distorted electric guitar - via YouTube

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1.618 First Sustainable Luxury Fair in Paris, with WWF and French Ministry of Culture

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Social Networking Guru danah boyd - 3/25/2009 2:10:00 PM - School Library Journal

This new genre is radically reconfiguring public life and information dissemination, as well as sociality. We're seeing a culture of individuals that are writing themselves into being, portraying themselves through media-rich bricolage. All of a sudden, media is not just something to consume, but to interact with as part of identity presentation and communication. We're seeing a cultural iteration. We grew up trying to place ourselves in stories, writing book reports on Lord of the Flies by trying to imagine ourselves on the island. Now, youth are combining media to express themselves as an active part of everyday life. All that happens online is an extension of what was happening before, inflected in new ways.

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