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Stuart Gerald English

Stuart Gerald English
Iconet Limited t/a ideas-lab

PhD
Research & MPPF innovation methods, active in the field of self-administered health treatments

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Introduction
How can we think about wicked problems and dynamic situations to reveal new opportunities? My research into Multiple Perspective Problem Framing (MPPF) involves constructing a detailed understanding of a complex situation, and employing interpretive methods to frame new forms of value from uncertainty. MPPF can be articulated as a 12-stage integrated system of use that can be applied flexibly in wide range of personal, business, social and organisational contexts. http://www.ideas-lab.co.uk

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Multiple perspective problem framing or MPPF is an innovation method that involves the construction of a detailed map of a complex situation, and interpretive methods to frame new forms of value from uncertainty. This document summarises MPPF method as a 12-stage integrated system of use that can be applied flexibly in wide range of personal, busin...
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Medical technologies, especially self-administered interventions, have a critical role to play in addressing health service challenges: they can reduce the need for hospital-based surgical interventions and associated risk of infection, whilst also supporting patient empowerment (Cutler, 2007; García-Lizana & Sarría-Santamera, 2007). Additionally,...
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This paper investigates how value innovation occurs in product design by examining a number of case study projects that have resulted in innovative outcomes, in many cases leading to the protection of intellectual property. The paper explores the structuring of project specific design solution space and in particular the identification of key issue...
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This paper is an introduction to a series of six papers concerning the modelling of design problem space. It explores the designer's development of value through the use of deductive reason and subjective choice in the construction of design problem space. The author contrasts a hierarchic view of decision-making based on deductive reason with a pa...
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A low level of treatment adherence is one of the challenges facing the UK's healthcare system. An estimated 30% to 50% of patients with chronic diseases fail to adhere to prescribed medical interventions. While medical technology provides an opportunity to overcome existing challenges, poor adherence blurs this opportunity by reducing the intervent...
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This paper documents an investigative action-research project which explores a new virtual hybridity for design studio activity. This work specifically challenges how creative teaching and learning are facilitated in a traditional design school studio environment and adapts to embrace a new virtual studio paradigm which parallels and supports an in...
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This paper delineates a study that aims to describe the development and measure the effects of a design-relevant mindfulness device. The relational nature of design and particularly multidisciplinary collaboration, implies that designers would benefit from the development of interpersonal skills. Science suggests that one of the benefits of mindful...
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A linking roller banner that allows multiple banners to be linked to provide a large uninterrupted display graphic.
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This paper delineates the design of a study that aims to describe the development and measure the effects of a design-relevant mindfulness device. The relational nature of design and particularly multidisciplinary collaboration, implies that designers would benefit from the development of interpersonal skills. Science suggests that one of the many...
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The paper demonstrates the need for an entrepreneurial attitude and competence in designers of today in order to ensure innovation. The paper considers evidence from four design innovation case studies to explore the relationship between design capabilities and the wider conditions necessary for innovation. All four case studies have been conducted...
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Design literature regards mindfulness as a new competency that should be taught explicitly in design educational settings. This is associated to points of view that consider such skills relevant to ethics, uncertainty, and to evolving multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder co-creative applications of design thinking. This document is part of a develo...
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Non-invasive self-administered treatment for diabetic retinopathy.
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As new approaches to Design Thinking emerge, mindfulness and other related abilities are discussed as skills that should be made explicit in Design Education. Research on the topic of mindfulness spans about four decades in various fields of study and several streams of research approaches have expanded the ways it is described. Diverse human quali...
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The researchers have developed a system of value innovation modelling founded on the application of a multiple perspective problem framing theory (English 2008). This approach has been used to map the attributes of 43 businesses in order to reveal untapped value in these organisations, as described in a previous paper (2010). The system considers b...
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The way we design, build and use products, and even keep social cohesion is based on a constant structural need for avoiding collapse, fed by positive feedback loops that only increase its negative impacts. Previous research into macroeconomics frequently raises the question: what size the economy should be? If it is accepted that macroeconomics i...
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According to Cross (2006), designing can be viewed as a form of intelligence so that its competences can be identified, clarified and cultivated. This paper reviews and extends existing design literature by refining the language that describes design-intelligence and the identification, clarification and cultivation of design-intelligence competenc...
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This paper exposes the search for a tool and method, which from a systems approach, adopts the rules and logic that govern our physical context (biosphere) in order to provide guidelines that the car industry could use to achieve an ideal state for ecological, economical and social sustainability.
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The focus of the research concerns the use of problem and opportunity framing approaches in design innovation. The work acknowledges the designer as an integral part of the design space and is based on the proposition that our capacity to innovate is dependent on the way we are able to see (perceive) problems and opportunities. The development of o...
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As the influence of vehicle emissions on our environment has become better understood, the UK government has recently placed urgent emphasis on the implementation of low carbon technologies in the automotive industry through: the UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy. The overall objective is to offer big incentives to consumers and support for the dev...

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