Design Thinking for Destinations introduces you to the concept of design thinking and how it applies to community marketing. Learn how to use design thinking to solve your biggest challenges of today: Millennial marketing, strategic initiatives and planning, community branding and marketing, collaboration, and more.
3. THE RESULTS: A new brand and position for the county, a new business identity, the relocation of Boeing to Charleston County, and
an increase in website visits by 150%. In addition this website won the best economic development website in the world in 2011.
6Countries
48States
461Places
Since 2001
4. • Co-hosting Disrupt-ED November 9-11
(Denver)
• Disseminating new white paper on impact
and influence of economic development
• offers.atlas-advertising.com/econ-dev-
white-paper-2017
• Releasing new tourism white paper in
tandem with the U.S. Travel Association
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10. What Are the Challenges Cities Face?
1. Workforce availability
2. Job creation
3. Demographics
4. Infrastructure
5. Water
6. Energy
7. Affordable housing
8. Crime
9. Visitor spending
10.Income Inequality
ISSUES
You start from what people, users, customers, prospects, visitors (...) need,
their motivations and the problems they are trying to solve.
11. How Are Cities Approaching Problems?
Divide and conquer (Over) simplify Force a solution
(to satisfy the most powerful players)
22. Earliest tools
2.5 million years ago
Specialized tools
40 thousand years ago
Urban design &
architecture in
Mesopotamia
10 thousand years ago
Development of
cuneiform in Sumer
5 thousand years ago
First citation of verb
“design”
1548
First citation of noun
“design”
1588
Industrial revolution
in Great Britain
Mid 18th century
The Practical
Draughtsman’s Book
of Industrial Design
First use of the term
“industrial design”
1853
Design Thinking,
Design Theory Series
MIT Press
2015
25. “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend
55 minutes thinking about the problem and
5 minutes thinking about the solution.”
~ Albert Einstein
26. How Design Thinking Feels
“The Process of Design Squiggle” by Damien Newman, Central Office of Design
27. What is Design Thinking?
Reframe the problem for
better outcomes
32. NICHE & UNREALIZED
POTENTIAL
UNFOCUSED STANDARD POTENTIAL
LEADERSHIP
High Touch
(Relationships and Knowledge)
HighTech
(DifferentiationandRelevance)
Design Thinking for Marketing Systems
• Data Visualization
• VR Experiences
• SEM
• Websites
• Social
• Mobile Applications
• Marketing Automation
• Content Marketing
• Trade shows
• Fam Tours
• Cocktails and handshakes
• Employer Surveys• Council Meetings
• Sub Committees • Elevated PR
• Digital Marketing
BROKEN.
The old
marketing playbook
is
61. Guillermo Mazier, CEO
1860 Blake Street, Suite B101 Denver,
CO 80202 USA
+913 742-1720 (Cell)
+303 292-3300 (Office)
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Guillermom@atlas-advertising.com
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