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What does design thinking in practice look like? There has been much talk about its power and efficacy. However, when you ...

"Design thinking," which is gaining traction in the business sector, is about allowing even the most traditional thinker to create fresh, inventive solutions to business challenges by leveraging an ...

Is your company leveraging design thinking? There are several different approaches to accomplishing a project or delivering a new product. For some organizations, implementing Lean principles and ...

Over the years the question of what makes some companies, and the people within, more or less creative than others has been studied ad nauseam. The idea of innovation within business has long been ...

It won’t surprise anyone who read this blog that I am not an admirer of the Design Thinking phenomenon. I will call myself a skeptic observer. However I am not directly oppose to it. If you wonder how ...

Why you need to put yourself in your customer’s shoes to understand the experiences they have with your organization. How well do you put yourself in your customer’s shoes? Year in and year out, ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. Getty Images When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole ...

It’s time for another rousing edition of “Because You Asked,” a space for you to ask those questions weighing you down--the ones you don't even want to ask your friends. Got an edtech question that ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. - Critical thinking requires practice, creative thinking. Soldiers and key leaders of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division are actively applying Operational Art and ...