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Lee applauds as participant Dalia Ali shares her take-home from the three-day programme. Acquiring design thinking enables individuals to do their jobs better and be more productive.With this in mind, executives from several organisations came together for a three-day Design Thinking Re-bootcamp — a training programme for decision-makers and leaders who drive an organisation’s culture…
Design thinking has become such a hot topic amongst L&D and innovation teams at large companies that one would think executives see it as their silver bullet solution to their innovation woes (that, or it’s a way for them to be seen to be investing in innovation and providing a creative outlet for their millennial staffers). Whatever the case, over 80% of new product launches at large companies fail and it’s because, as Michael Dell famously put it, “ideas are a commodity, execution of them is not”. The same holds true in the startup world where 95% of startups fail, usually due to market failure stemming from botched execution. While design thinking is indeed an incredibly powerful ideation and prototyping tool that I use with my team and with clients, it is but one of many pieces to the corporate innovation puzzle. It alone won’t deliver any value beyond temporarily galvanizing employees and delivering some chemical reactions.
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Design thinking ultimately comes down to starting with a set of objectives and passionately exploring how to develop a solution based on those goals. While this approach is becoming popular in the business world (particularly the startup world), it’s incredibly difficult to implement. Unless you invest in educating your staff, getting managers on board and…
n 2012, 80% of Apple’s revenues came from products that were less than five years old. What does this tell us? The world is changing fast and the best companies are able to adapt. In business terms, their ROI (Return on Investment) is also related with their adaptability rate. The ability to adapt is something…
Appeal to both logic and emotion.
An introductory timeline into the history and origins of Design thinking. Key players, designers and influences broken down into phases.
Not only does design thinking foster innovation, but it also strengthens teams by creating common vocabulary and artifacts, and a trust-based team culture.
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Rotterdam Eye Hospital transformed its patients’ experiences.
One of the things I’ve been doing for years is using Design Thinking to get greater understanding and adoption when doing any analytics project. It focused the analysis and delivered actionable insights to the right person and in the right way faster than any other method. Recently, I decided to see if I could find some good examples of this approach being used at other companies and, to my delight, I found some excellent examples where, intentional or not, some fabulous companies and teams are using this to get high value results.
It’s really interesting when a professional tries to explain their complex work to a layperson. Here’s a good example — watch theoretical…
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Never have design thinking, design practice and creative skills been as important to Canada’s future as they are now. Today, competitive success is determined by the ability to understand human needs and desires and to deliver richly imagined ways of addressing them. Many organizations recognize the importance of innovation, but they don’t know how to achieve it. The answer is design. Designers allow companies to stay ahead of their customers by anticipating and addressing human needs and behaviours in a complex and changing world. Technology needs to be intentionally designed for and with people. Design creates the experience of a product, system or service, the individual, social and cultural experience, and the value and the impact it has. Design is the bridge between raw invention and application. The essence of design thinking involves empathizing deeply, listening to people and observing them to identify tough problems to address or new opportunities to explore. Design thinking marries systems analysis with outcomes-oriented problem solving. It’s relevant to the development and enhancement of services, products and business methods. It’s as applicable to large companies as it is to startups and non-profits.
Via John Evans, Dean J. Fusto, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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Everybody’s talking about innovation these days. While many organizations focus on innovation and Design Thinking as a way to innovate, the most successful organizations focus on creating a culture in which innovation thrives. Innovating through hackathons, bootcamps, brainstorming sessions, sprints and the like is a good start, creating a culture of innovation is what will…
Some of the aims of Design Thinking's approach are to create: greater inclusivenessbetter team cohesionhigher levels of collaboration and interactionincreased creative confidenceEveryone thinks, feels, and experiences things differently. Differences are what we need. Knowing that certain activities are not natural for everyone means that some preparation, explanation, and trust-building, before the launch, can go a long way towards preventing people from jumping ship. Some of the obstacles the process aims to overcome: Fear of failureIntimidationLow self esteemHierarchyCreative blocksBlind spotsSpecialisation bias
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At first glance, it looks as though the group of young adults is building Lego. But these are actually students at the University of Cape Town’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking, and they’re using the colourful blocks to design a prototype. It represents policy reform ideas around transitioning from informal to formal economies. It’s…
The most difficult thing about being a designer seems to be writing the bio of your LinkedIn profile, “about” pages for websites, and cover letters; the process of explaining what you do to anyone is a giant pain in the ass. It’s ironic that the services we tell our client we’re experts in (like branding and clearly communicated messaging) are…
As we look to the future, design thinking will play an increasingly critical role, and organisations will need to evolve and embrace this creative and agile practice if they are to stay ahead of the pack. Source: The future of design thinking | ING DIRECT: Being human in a digital world | The Guardian
Recently design thinking has gained momentum in the business world but how exactly did it come about? Source: Design thinking origin story plus some of the people who made it all happen – Medium
Not only does design thinking foster innovation, but it also strengthens teams by creating common vocabulary and artifacts, and a trust-based team culture. Source: Design Thinking Builds Strong Teams
Design Thinking is a design methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems. It’s extremely useful in tackling complex problems that are ill-defined or unknown, by understanding the human needs involved, by re-framing the problem in human-centric ways, by creating many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and by adopting a hands-on approach in prototyping and testing. Understanding these five stages of Design Thinking will empower anyone to apply the Design Thinking method
Business strategies – especially in the tradition sense – are rather pushy. If you have a product, your strategy is to explain why a customer should use it. Design thinking as a strategy flips this. Instead of forcing a product on customers, instead, it sees things from the customer’s perspective. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it is solution focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future. Design Thinking draws upon logic, imagination, intuition, and systemic reasoning – exploring the possibilities of what could be. This train of thought creates desired outcomes benefiting the end user. When design principles are applied to strategy and innovation the success rate for innovation dramatically improves.
Via John Evans
Human-centered design, a highly creative approach to problem solving, is gaining popularity in libraries as they plan for what lies ahead.
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A couple of days ago, I was looking for a visual illustration of Design Thinking to share with my colleagues and clients. Thousands of…
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Rather than being a creative activity, problem-solving sessions for many businesses are nothing more than an exercise in analytics.
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