Home / Arc and Ideo Team Up

Arc and Ideo Team Up

Arc and Ideo Team Up

For more information go to www.arcfusionmag.com

March 2016: Arc Fusion and Ideo are collaborating on a unique process for addressing and solving health challenges, developing new products and systems, and creatively engaging in human-centered design This process takes advantage of Arc power to convene experts and to brainstorm issues and ideas, with Ideo’s power to design and build, and to produce results.

“Arc will work with IDEO to develop ideas generated in Arc gatherings and discussions into actual projects, initiatives, proposals, companies, and products,” said Arc CEO David Ewing Duncan. Arc plans to assemble working groups and to convene expert panels and networks and offer consulting services to the Arc community. These projects fall into two categories:

1. Public Projects: Addressing ecosystem, infrastructure and societal issues around the fusion of health, IT and biomedicine. These start with a large “public” dinner with follow-up sessions by Arc and Ideo to develop reports, initiatives, suggested standards, challenges, and products.

2. Custom Projects: Addressing specific tactical and strategic questions around systems, products, investments, companies and policies for businesses, organizations, government, and funds. Arc-Ideo will hold small dinners and expert sessions to discuss questions and develop solutions that can then be executed on by Ideo.

The Arc-Ideo collaboration will discuss, research, and offer solutions to critical questions from the Arc community. Arc-Ideo will:

  • Identify a tactical-strategic question, issue or theme that needs to be answered
  • Hold an Arc Fusion Dinner and convene the right people, including experts, to inform, answer questions, discuss, brainstorm, and come up with ideas
  • Record what happens at the Arc event with videos, articles, and podcasts, while further researching and exploring the topic
  • Tap into Arc’s expert network and partnerships – including IDEO - to create solutions
  • Develop a process of refinement and synthesis to home in on desired outcomes – these might include new products, marketing plans, policy initiatives, systems analysis and revamping, and more
  • Work with IDEO to execute on solutions and outcomes

Arc contact: Andrea Cross, andrea@arprograms.net