Allan Donnelly

Measuring the Effects of Explicit Instructions and Incentives on the Idea Generation Rate of a Crowd-Based Population Generating new ideas is at the core of innovation.  Management researchers have long sought strategies for increasing the rate and quality of ideas generated...

“Sustainability is the possibility that human and other life might flourish on earth forever.” This quote by John Aronfeld set up the creative tension that underlies all sustainability projects: How might we be able to flourish and grow forever without depleting the resources...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a systems approach to business and organizational design. The framework for enterprise architecting provides a holistic approach to analysing as-is enterprises and designing to-be enterprise systems. EA is more than just organizational design in...

      This project was the product of a series of workshops hosted by Continuum Innovation at MIT Sloan. The workshops focused on the design thinking process as practiced at Continuum and sessions were structured to teach specific tools used in the service design...

Gülüs in Turkish means smile.  gülüs is a mobile application that allows the people of Istanbul to share smiles with one another.  In a design class at the MIT MediaLab, a partner and I designed a mobile application for Avea, Turkey’s third largest telecom company, and AveaLabs,...

    Collective Intelligence is defined as the ability of groups to solve more problems than the individuals working alone.  Collective Intelligence is not just the average knowledge of the crowd, it is, rather, an emergent property that is greater than the sum of its parts...

Affinity mapping is a tool that helps designers find relationships between elements and to simplify complex information.  Groups of individuals are asked a set of questions around a strategic goal and are asked to provide responses to these questions on Post It notes...

Swinging Both Ways: Targeting Gay Consumers Using Cryptic Messaging This research begins with the premise that gay consumers respond to messages and advertisements differently than straight consumers.  Traditional messages that fit hetero-normative archetypes might not resonate...

Sloan Gear is a student run retail venture. The company is designed to give management students the opportunity to learn first-hand the successes and challenges of running a small retail company. The company designs and orders apparel and other items with custom graphics, namely...

C-Functions are semimonthly, student-organized social events designed to highlight the cultural diversity at MIT Sloan. Each event features music, dance and food from the various cultures represented in the student population. As the marketing chair for the LGBT Club, I developed...

Situated in the center of Kongen’s Have, a park within Copenhagen, this pavilion was a project about touch. The formal expression was derived from hammocks and cocoons, structures that inherently mold and change form to create individual spaces. Light and almost unseen, the...

Photographs from my many travels around the state of Massachusetts.  The parks, seasons, and cities, make Massachusetts an incredibly dynamic place to live.

These pictures are from Black Rock City, Nevada, a temporary city that provides the infrastructure for the annual Burning Man event.  These picture were taken in 2011 and 2012.

Photographs taken at Yosemite National Park in June 2008.

Photographs taken at Death Valley National Park in April 2008.

Photographs from a month long trip to the Sonoran Desert in January 2013.  Images taken at Catalina State Park and Sabino Canyon in southern Arizona.

Images taken during a trip to Yellowstone National Park in August 2011.

Photographs from a trip to Prague, Czech Republic in May 2013.

Photographs from a trip to Vienna, Austria in May 2013.

Time lapse photography from a cross country trip starting in Cambridge, Massachusetts and ending in Berkeley, California. Allan Donnelly Music Credit Departure Mount Desolation Mount Desolation 2010 Universal Island Records

This video illustrates a series of affinity mapping exercises held at Shepley Bulfinch, an architecture and design firm in Boston, Massachusetts.  The second segment of the video (00:24) illustrates a firm-wide activity designed to engage the members of the organization in a...