We had another Design Planning class with Larry Keeley this past Monday where we discussed convergence, frameworks from Michael Porter, some keys to being innovative and more.
There are always great quotes from him that I find myself trying to quickly write down. Since I’ve shared a few in an earlier post and have a couple more from this class to list, I figure I’ll start posting Keeley-isms that strike me. There’s no way I can try to capture the energy, knowledge and excitement of a lecture, so these are just short snippets and quotes that I think are informative.
“The unique thing about designers is you can actually make stuff. That ability is increasingly rare…to be able to see the artifacts in the world as fungible and not fixed. It’s a really rare skill and unavailable, unthinkable to most”
On convergence, “From time to time and not very often, fields retread themselves and they smash together. Think of it as tectonic shifts. When there is a really big convergence, in their wake new conditions come along that have different degrees of hostility, mostly for incumbents, and opportunity, mostly for new entrants.”
“If you want to be great at innovation, notice things before others, commit to them before others, and know the consequences down the road. It’s about courage.”
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