You & #039;re Not an Engineer, You & #039;re a Creative Problem Solver

If you ever go to work for Kablooe Design, you'll quickly learn you are no longer an engineer or a product designer. "When you come on board here you've got a new title, and your title is, 'person who solves problems in creative ways and makes them become a reality. That's your title now'," said Tom Kramer, president and CEO at Kablooe Design, a Coon Rapids, MN-based firm. Kramer participated in a point/counterpoint discussion at MD&M Minneapolis about the challenges of finding the right balance between design and functionality in product development. To help make his point, Kramer told the following engineering joke: A doctor, a rabbi, and an engineer went golfing together. They kept having to wait on a group in front of them who were going through the course considerably slower. Finally, the doctor asked one of the golf course staff members what the deal was with the group in front of them going so slow and not letting them play through. The staff member explained that the slower group was part of a blind golfing association and all the golfers in the group were blind. The doctor said he had some friends who specialize in optical surgery and he wondered if his buddies might be able to help the blind golfers in some way. The rabbi was moved by the boldness of the blind golfers and said he would pray for them. The engineer, on the other hand, looks at the guy and asks, "why don't you just have them golf at night?" Kramer explained that ...
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