About The Innovation Center

The purpose of the Innovation Center is to drive innovation, design thinking and creativity into the fabric of our culture at Fresenius. The Innovation Center is the physical center for activities related to innovation. It serves as a set-apart venue for presentations, collaborative opportunity discovery, and training in design thinking, creativity, and innovation. The space is also a place for teams to showcase their initiatives as a means of socializing ideas and inspiring others.

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Coming in May

Empathy Garden: Relating the Home Patient Experience

Hear actual quotes from recently curated patient interviews, while exploring via various sensory exhibits what home dialysis patients and their loved ones experience on their journeys with kidney disease.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, February 24, 1–2:30 pm

INNOVATION SERIES WORKSHOP: Better Brainstorming

by Mary Vasseur Finn and UX Department

Learn the principles of brainstorming, and how to optimize your ideation sessions. Topics covered include: The ideation process, divergent thinking, and brainstorming techniques and strategies. Group size limited to 20; in-person attendance is required.

Tuesday, February 25, 11 am–1 pm

PRESENTATION: AI Chatbots in Mobile Applications for Mental Health

by Guest speaker Alyson Gamble

Alyson is a doctoral student in Library and Information Science (LIS) at Simmons University, where her research focuses on the information seeking behaviors of people with mental health concerns. You can learn more about Alyson at mlisgamble.com

Wednesday, February 26, 1–2:30 pm

REPEAT PRESENTATION: Mobile Best Practices

by Ravi Patil

The Tech Integration team, working with other ITG teams and vendors, has defined mobile architecture best practices. They will present these best practices that can be used as a guide and checklist to architect the system, as well as its behaviors.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops are scheduled throughout the year, and upon request for individual teams. Coaching is also available for brainstorming and ideating sessions.

Better Brainstorming

Learn the principles of brainstorming, and how to optimize your ideation sessions and produce more novel solutions to the problem at hand. Topics covered include:

The ideation process
Divergent thinking
Brainstorming rules, and
Brainstorming techniques and strategies

Duration: 1.5 hours

Better Brainstorming

Catalyzing Creativity

Don’t think you’re creative? Scientists on the frontiers of creativity research have discovered keys that anyone can use to cultivate creativity. Topics covered include:

Myths about creativity
The impact of social and environmental factors on creativity
Strategies and tools for catalyzing creativity

Duration: 2.0 hours

Catalyzing Creativity

Intro to Design Thinking

Learn the basics of design thinking, and how to incorporate it into your innovation processes. Topics covered include:

Process awareness
Discovering user needs
Good problem statements
Idea generation
Converging on ideas
Prototyping and testing

Duration: 2.0 hours

Intro to Design Thinking

There's an "I" in Innovation

Great innovative teams have creative problem-solvers who bring their unique contributions to specific stages of the innovative process. Learn how team members can best align themselves to one another to maximize their collective potential.

A personality profile assessment will be included in this session.

Duration: 1.5 hours

There's an "I" in Innovation