One of my favorite STEM challenges—hands-on problem-based activities designed to build students’ critical thinking and ...

What is one of the most frequent points of feedback that leaders receive from innovation teams? “We don’t have enough budget, people and/or time.” Yet, organizations, even the multibillion-dollar ...

Imagine being tasked with creating something new and having the world at your disposal. You can invent whatever you want, made from any material you choose, in any color, size or shape you’d like.

Changes in business and economic conditions place constraints on small-business owners and managers. Globalization means that economic problems in one country or region can spread quickly to other ...

When Marissa Mayer, now CEO of Yahoo, joined Google in 1999 as its 20th employee, she had an important question for the company’s co-founder, Larry Page. Why, she asked, was the design of Google so ...

If you are starting your own business, you will quickly learn how to allocate your time and resources – which are also known as your constraints or limitations in completing a specific project. As ...

Design culture loves the fantasy of “blue sky” thinking. No constraints. No limits. Pure imagination. It sounds liberating, but it often produces design that only works in ideal conditions for an ...

Guest post by Paul Jun. If you were designing a race car, how would you do it? Make it go faster, you would tell yourself. Just beat everyone as fast as possible. Building a faster car is a typical ...

There’s an exercise that I used to do with students in my entrepreneurship course: I would give each team of students an envelope with $5 inside. I’d tell them that this money was their “seed funding” ...