Category Archives: Curation

Storyscaping

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Skip Walter

My colleague, David Robinson, works tirelessly to get me to tell stories. It’s not that I don’t want to. I spent forty years being a terminal analytic, just the facts, kind of presenter. I forget to step back and compose … Continue reading →

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Asking for Help – Need Readers for My Draft Book

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Skip Walter

I need some help. I am looking for a few “young entrepreneurs” or young at heart entrepreneurs who have a few hours to read through an early draft of Emails for a Young Entrepreneur and share with me your first impressions. As … Continue reading →

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Lifelet: The Seahawk Twelves

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Skip Walter

What an unbelievable journey for Seahawk nation here in Southeast Alaska (thank you Jimmy Johnson). For the last month, “Flipping My Perspective” is a way of life as I do my daily flips. For the last two weeks my Seahawk … Continue reading →

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The Lost Power of Why

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Skip Walter

Way too many moons ago I was introduced to the Deming “Five Whys” through interactions with the Digital Equipment Corporation Manufacturing Division as part of the Japan Study Mission: “Systematically asking why an event occurs or a condition exists. The … Continue reading →

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Daydreaming of Kindle Social Highlights

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Skip Walter

One of the joys of riding the ferry between Seattle and Bainbridge Island is bumping into the eclectic collection of friends and colleagues somewhat randomly. The other night I had the pleasure of sitting next to John Lange from Amazon. … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurial Teachable Moments

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Skip Walter

The Professor and the VC I attended the UW HCDE Corporate Affiliate Program (CAP) on Tuesday morning and sat next to one of my colleagues who also started a “maker” company last year.  As the corporate affiliates were introduced, we were both … Continue reading →

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ConveyUX – Highlights from the cheap seats

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Skip Walter

Last week I managed to squeeze time into my crazy schedule to attend the ConveyUX conference in Seattle sponsored by BlinkUX. I was delighted to see the international turnout and many familiar faces from the UW HCDE program. While I … Continue reading →

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When Science and Art Dance – Business Results

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Skip Walter

Each year the Institute of Design in Chicago, IL, holds a Design Strategy Conference.  This year, Patrick Whitney, asked me if I would share how we used the human centered design process to develop Attenex Patterns. The video of the … Continue reading →

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Goodnight Moon – and Beyond

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Skip Walter

While our three children were very young, at some point in the evening the echoes of my wife or me reading Goodnight Moon would be filling the house. I will never know whether reading the book was more for the kids … Continue reading →

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Teaching “Hybrid” Courses

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Skip Walter

I love synchronicity. As part of David Socha’s research agenda is the rethinking of how one transforms a class from professor centered to student learning centered. As part of the ever flowing collaboration between David, Alan Wood and me, we … Continue reading →

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