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What Game of Thrones Teaches Us About Innovation Posted by: halvormj / May 26, 2019 Image: A scene from Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Photo: HBO. May 26, 2019 By Damian Alessandro ’19 The Innovation Studies program at Pacific Lutheran University is interested in the diverse environments innovation can be found in, including the entertainment industry. The popularity of HBO’s blockbuster show, Game of Thrones, highlights an important place to study innovation principles. Spoiler warning for the

2016 NWACC Award for Innovation in Instructional Technologies Posted by: nordgrle / December 15, 2016 December 15, 2016 Each year the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC), a group of 33 northwest colleges and universities, sponsors an Award for Innovation in Instructional Technologies. The award recognizes faculty members and instructional technologists at member institutions for work demonstrating effective design, development, integration, and/or support of instructional technology

? The white supremacist, capitalist notion of time is that progress is forward-moving rather than simultaneously connected to the past, present and future. So, yes, the idea of newness and progress that “innovation” often brings up needs to be unpacked. Narrator’s Interjection: Awkward silence on the part of the person tasked with writing a story on “Innovation in D&I” for the “Innovation” issue of ResoLute. Tyler Dobies ’16, and Maya Perez ’16 at Gasworks Park in Seattle. (Photographs by John

Notes on Design-Centered Innovation at Pacific Lutheran University Posted by: halvormj / January 26, 2018 January 26, 2018 By Michael Halvorson. Halvorson is director of Innovation Studies at Pacific Lutheran University.   Design has become an integral component of the innovation process. Leading businesses such as Amazon, Apple, Nike, Disney, Dyson, and Airbnb are all recognized for their award-winning designs that strive to communicate the benefits of products to users and meet actual

women in starting new businesses. “I want to help them with branding, business strategy, and storytelling, which are essential for a business to thrive,” she says. Applying Innovation to the Everyday Ambachew wonders how Mexico’s women’s co-ops might succeed in Ethiopia, which she says has a culture similar to Mexico’s regarding gender roles. “I’d love to see more co-ops in Ethiopia, where women can benefit from having a platform to sell goods and bring in income.” As a career peer advisor at PLU

starting new businesses. “I want to help them with branding, business strategy, and storytelling, which are essential for a business to thrive,” she says. Applying Innovation to the Everyday Ambachew wonders how Mexico’s women’s co-ops might succeed in Ethiopia, which she says has a culture similar to Mexico’s regarding gender roles. “I’d love to see more co-ops in Ethiopia, where women can benefit from having a platform to sell goods and bring in income.” As a career peer advisor at PLU, Ambachew

Sustainability and Innovation: An Interview with Fashion Designer Mariken Lund An Innovation Studies student explains how she started ELSK the Studio Posted by: halvormj / May 16, 2021 May 16, 2021 Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund, a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However, during the

Cameron Bennett helps establish a culture of innovation at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 By Lisa Patterson ’98ResoLute ContributorCameron Bennett, DMA, is well-known as the Dean of PLU’s School of Arts and Communication, but from 2019-2021 he also had another title — Chief Innovation Officer and chair of the Presidential Commission on Innovation and Change. Established in fall 2019, the commission’s goal was to develop ideas and priorities that position PLU for long

Karen McConnell embraces innovation as PLU’s first chief institutional effectiveness officer Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Lisa Patterson ’98ResoLute ContributorAssociate Vice President Karen McConnell , Ph.D., recently stepped into a new role. It’s not only new for her, but also for PLU. She is the school’s first chief institutional effectiveness officer. McConnell explains that in this role she will help ensure that evidence-based decision-making is being used

Can the Innovation Studies minor help you to be more (well…) innovative? Posted by: halvormj / November 8, 2017 Image: Turn on the lights. (Photo by Diz Play on Unsplash.) November 8, 2017 By Damian Alessandro. Innovation. If you read the popular press, you’ll see that this word is constantly thrown around in professional settings. But what does it mean? For some, innovation is all about progression and disruption. One of the defining ideologies of our time, innovation makes room for both