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Shaping Staff Development from

a Futures Perspective

Ty HenkalineChief Analytics InnovatorColumbus Collaboratory

December 6, 2017

Objectives

- Talk: Illustrate the value of having access to cross-functional personnel (design + engineering) in addition to cross-functional teams

- Talk: Illustrate how easy it can be to begin to make your engineers more design-saavy today

Agenda

- Where are we today?

- Where must we head?

- What does this look like in practice?

Agenda

- Where are we today?

Are your people left-brained or right-brained?

Is curriculum specialized or broad?

Design!

Agenda

- Where are we today?

- Where must we head?

What does innovation require?

How must innovation be done?

Who does this well?

The critical ingredient … is to build teams, companies and corporate cultures … of “smart creatives.”

These are digital-age descendants of yesterday’s “knowledge workers,” … who ... are impatient, outspoken risk-takers …

They are intellectually versatile, typically “combining technical depth with business savvy and creative flair,”

Agenda

- Where are we today?

- Where must we head?

- What does this look like in practice?

Huntington Case Study(Removed)

Design Thinking Framework(Case study details removed)

Q&A