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Designing a Circular Economy

Designing a Circular Economy

That’s the radical promise of the Circular Economy: moving from our traditional take-make-dispose economy, to one that has a closed loop, where materials, nutrients, and data are continuously repurposed.…

How Creative Leadership Can Transform Companies and Society

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How Creative Leadership Can Transform Companies and Society

After 40 years of rapid development, China's economic growth has reached a critical turning point. However, looking at the world, today is also the most complex and uncertain era in human history.…

Every Business Has a Part to Play in Building Better Health

Words By Tim Brown & Joanne Cheung, Visuals By Kavya Singh Barthwal

Every Business Has a Part to Play in Building Better Health

Communities: Support local economic resilience.…

The Freelancer's Guide to Hustling

Words By Danae Sterental & Tiffany Knight Visuals By Charlota Blunarova

The Freelancer's Guide to Hustling

Share: With the rise of the gig economy, the workplace has changed dramatically—and for the better, we think. The definition of a “long and successful career” has been flipped on its head.…

3 Ways Design Can Help Tackle 2019's Big Challenges

Words By Sarah Rich

3 Ways Design Can Help Tackle 2019's Big Challenges

While it's easy these days to lament the state of the environment and the need for change, there's some hope to be found in the increased momentum towards a more circular economy.…

The Food System Can’t Survive This Crisis, but a Better System Can Be Built

Words By Rebecca Chesney & Holly Bybee, Visuals By Lia Wesp

The Food System Can’t Survive This Crisis, but a Better System Can Be Built

But the problems that people, the economy, and the environment suffer as a consequence of the system aren’t so much a sign that it’s broken as that it wasn’t designed to generate good outcomes for the world we live in today.…

5 Ways to Think Like a Designer, from an IDEO Partner

Words By Leif Huff Visuals By Anuja Shukla

5 Ways to Think Like a Designer, from an IDEO Partner

But today's students—the next generation of leaders—have grown up in a sharing economy where not just goods, but also values are exchanged. And that keeps me optimistic about the future.…

The 4 Books Tim Brown Can’t Put Down

Words By Heather Kathryn Ross Visuals By Devin Peek

The 4 Books Tim Brown Can’t Put Down

That question, along with the author’s case for a more compassionate, sustainable economic model, dovetails with our interest in advancing the. circular economy. Tim calls it “a book about economics that makes sense to designers.”. Read the book.…

Dear Future … We made this for you

Words By Michael Hendrix, Visuals By Alicia Duvall

Dear Future … We made this for you

We are facing global economic contraction, the explosion of artificial intelligence, and a developing climate crisis that scientists say could cross an irreversible threshold by the end of this decade.…

A Sustainable Future Should Be an Abundant One

A Sustainable Future Should Be an Abundant One

It’s a circular economy. Those principles that nature uses to create abundance can be hugely guiding for us. No one wants to be told we're heading toward a place where we will have less. And less is not IDEO’s vision—abundance is.…