By Julia Smeed, Innovation Hub Project Lead I was inspired this morning by Linda Hill, a Management professor and Co-Author of Collective Genius. As I think about how we move forward in the Innovation Hub, I found myself nodding through her entire…
Empathy & Design
By Julia Smeed, Innovation Hub Project Lead In order to realize the Innovation Hub vision to create a seamless student experience for at the University of Toronto, we must gain a deeper understanding about the current student experience. One way that…
Recap – Hub Progress to Date
By Julia Smeed, Innovation Hub Project Lead
We are so excited to launch the Innovation Hub blog to provide a space for dialogue about innovative mindsets and methodologies and to document the story of the Hub. Over the past two months we’ve been busy identifying our domains for innovation and preparing to build the Innovation Hub teams. I’d like to first take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to the hundreds of students, staff and faculty who were part of this process. It’s been so wonderful to work collaboratively and I am so excited to continue this work with you!
Innovation Hour – Building the Hub Teams
Our Innovation Hours continued this week with a look at the proposed plan to build the Innovation Hub teams. This past Tuesday a group of students and staff met to discuss the draft team structure and roles and share questions and insights about how the team will come together.
Creating the Domains for Innovation
By Julia Smeed, Innovation Hub Project Lead
Since the launch and the Day of Learning, our five Domains for Innovation have been evolving. A team of over 30 Ambassadors continued this work which led to six versions of the domains for innovation. We are so pleased to say that thanks to all of the input and feedback from the community, we have landed on the following five domains: