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Title:

Culture Kicks Our Ass: How To Kick Back

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Organizer:
Steve Portigal, Portigal Consulting
Description:
We’ll explore the different cultural challenges that breakthrough products must overcome: emergent usage behaviors that are impossible to predict, a global customer base and cultural barriers inside the corporation that suffocate innovation. We’ll also share best practices for addressing each challenge.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is culture?
  2. How have cultural factors kicked our products’ asses?
  3. How do our ethnocentric assumptions kick our asses?
  4. What are some innovative products that manifest an understanding of users’ culture(s)?
  5. How have some innovative products gone about engaging users in a cultural way?
  6. How does corporate culture suffocate innovation?
  7. What is at the root of it all, the common thread of culture?
  8. How should we start thinking about culture?
  9. What should we do differently with our products knowing these issues
  10. How can we help our organizations develop cultures that support innovation?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Design Thinking, User Experience
Type:
Dual
Event:
Interactive 2010
on 17/8/09
Co-presenter for this panel is D. P. Haine, Founder of Obvious Design
Qassim Saad
on 19/8/09
this topic is one of my interests sa educator and professional industrial designer, working in a multi cultural environment.
on 19/8/09
Being both an investigator and curator of culture, Steve Portigal is passionate about culture’s creations and connections. He embodies what designer Lorraine Wild said: “You have to be interested in culture to design for it.”
Kate Rutter
on 24/8/09
Steve is able to take complex, political bullshit and break it down into small parts that you can use as fertilizer to grow great stuff. He's smart and funny and insightful. And the topic of culture is key. Can't wait to hear what he has to say about this subject!
on 3/11/09
Interesting topic, good luck
on 13/11/09
Terrific info in support of small enterprise. Great idea!
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