Predict the Future

Advice for product innovation, design, and development
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Implement the Vision: Four Steps to Breakthrough Technical Innovation
These four steps for repeatable technical innovation have proven trustworthy for us on project after project.
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Cast a Vision: Four Steps to a Forward-Looking Technology Roadmap
In order to meet the needs of future users, companies must anticipate disruptive technologies and develop a path to innovation.
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Four Elements to Achieve Trust in AI-Enabled Healthcare
To achieve societal trust and move responsibly into an AI-enabled healthcare future, we need to put four elements in place.
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How Will AI Impact Medical Devices?
Fresh from our webinar, AI & Medical Device Development, we'd like to share a few takeaways from the discussion.
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Will AI and ChatGPT really transform clinical healthcare for the better?
I am excited about where AI will take us in healthcare, but there are some challenges we will need to negotiate and serious dangers we must guard against.
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Future-Readiness Checklist: Are You Prepared to Lead in the Future of Your Industry?
Is your innovation incremental, strategic, or visionary? Use Delve's Future-Readiness Checklist to gauge your approach.
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How to Design Health Products of the Future, Part 5: Seamless Integration
As healthcare moves toward everyday wellness, new health and wellness solutions will consist of offerings you wouldn’t expect from the current ecosystem. Designing solutions that provide a seamless integration of products and services will entice healthcare consumers.
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How to Design Health Products of the Future, Part 4: Anytime, Anywhere
Consumer-centric care will continue to be delivered faster, in unexpected places, and at previously untenable times of day and night. Companies that can redefine convenience will gain a competitive edge.
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How to Design Health Products of the Future, Part 3: Data-Informed Personalization
Advancements in AI and data analytics technologies, and the healthcare consumer’s increasing interest in tracking and sharing personal data, are paving the way for highly personalized care. To win this race, companies need to deliver deeper, more meaningful personalization.
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How to Design Health Products of the Future, Part 2: Empathic Care
Companies that provide more meaningful connection at an emotional and aspirational level will attract the next generation of healthcare consumers.
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How to Design Health Products of the Future, Part 1: Everyday Wellness
Future healthcare products need to be designed to embody a proactive and preventive mindset. This new paradigm is focused on enhancing our well-being and health in all areas of our life, all of the time.
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Speculative Design and a Cone of Possibilities
Speculative design requires people to suspend their disbelief and allow their imaginations to wander. Here's one tool to ground it in reality.
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2021's Top 10 Innovation and Product Design Posts
In 2021 you devoured blogs about looking at old problems in new ways, unlocking your professional potential, and creating products that change the world for the better.
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How to Stop Your Innovation From Inspiring a 'Black Mirror' Episode
Warning: I’m going to criticize and question something beloved by millions of people—stationary exercise bikes.
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5 Ways Care Models Need to Change
When we reflect on 2020, we may come to think of it a period when we had the time to pursue simpler, do-it-yourself, pleasures like making bread or planting a garden. Many of us used the endless pandemic months to learn a new a language or take up a new outdoor sport.
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Four Steps to Data-Driven Customer Foresight
Most products take anywhere from three to ten years to develop from idea to commercialization. But many companies rely on their understanding of consumers today to make decisions for these future products.
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How to Write 'How Might We' Questions for Product Strategy
Translating research into actions is often more art than science. We have found “how might we” questions to be useful tools. Here's how to write one.
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How ‘Forecasting and Backcasting’ Enable Disruptive Innovation
Forecasting and backcasting provide a framework for disruptive innovation by establishing a solid structure to support big, strategic thinking.
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The Mega Megatrends Post: Your Guide to the Ten Consumer Megatrends Reshaping Product Design
How will you decide today what to design for 2030? Strategists look to megatrends to predict consumer behavior and futureproof strategy.
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Five Megatrends Driving the Future of Medical Devices
Our free, on-demand webinar explains why innovation is so critical in healthcare, and introduces our Framework for Strategic Innovation: Health + Wellness.
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The Sociocultural Megatrends Transforming Healthcare
We've examined key sociocultural megatrends through a lens of medical and wellness consumer experience to single out four profound shifts in the field.
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SXSW Day Three: New reality
We may need an innovacation after this! But no chance... the talks and exhibits are still going strong.
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SXSW 2019: First Impressions
Jesse Darley and I arrived Friday evening and walked the streets of Austin. We were immediately immersed in all things SXSW. There were music, crowds, exhibits, lines, homeless, clubbers, diners, all of it.
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Five Global Megatrends Reshaping Product Design
Doing user research now won't help you design for 2028. Trend analysis will. Design strategists turn to it to predict consumers' future behavior.
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Technology vs. Prediction
Let's face it, technology can enable us to do a lot of new things. That doesn't mean we'll actually do them.
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Ant or alien? The value of taking the extra-long view
Your company probably has 3- and 5-year plans. But does it have a 30-year plan? If not, it may be unwittingly writing its own obsolescence.
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The future of engineering
Recently, I was asked by the University of Wisconsin to share my thoughts on the future of engineering education as the keynote speaker at their 2016 Engineering Innovation Showcase.
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How to Innovate by Spotting and Applying Trends
Have you ever read an article about design trends and wondered, “Where on earth did THAT come from?”
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What Will Healthcare Look Like in 2065?
We did a thought experiment and traveled 50 years into the future to glimpse the future of healthcare and of the patient's user experience.
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