Design Your Future Forum

Here are some thoughts eminating from the  Design your Future Forum I attended in Auckland last week. It was driven by some of the worlds  great thought leaders on business trends.

You might find some of them challenging. I hope you find all of them interesting

• Data is the new oil
• Water is the new oil
• Simplicity is a part of good design
• We are living in a volatile place
• The more efficient a system gets the less resilient it becomes
• You cannot plan an urban space. You can imagine it, but you cannot plan it
• Design behaviours, not objects
• Be insanely great
• Design is never done
• Systems are never done
• Focus on the user and all else will follow
• A powerful mission is fundamental to success.
• The play you are immersed in, in childhood determines how you act as an adult.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge
• The smartest person is the one who is the most strategically creative
• The hand programmes the brain
• Play has a positive approach to failure
• The opposite of play is depression, not work
• Bring your whole person to work
• Design is a method of imagining something that does not yet exist
• The employee experience is as important as the customer experience
• The concept of empathy means you must understand what is happening in your customer’s life
• Youth are perpetually connected
• Youth are forming new habits that everyone else is adopting
• The millenials do care about their privacy.
• Leadership is the capacity for human beings to scope their own future

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