A comprehensive playbook for applied design thinking in business and management, complete with concepts and toolkits
As many companies have lost confidence in the traditional ways of running a business, design thinking has entered the mix. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation presents a framework for design thinking that is relevant to business management, marketing, and design strategies and also provides a toolkit to apply concepts for immediate use in everyday work. It explains how design thinking can bring about creative solutions to solve complex business problems. Organized into five sections, this book provides an introduction to the values and applications of design thinking, explains design thinking approaches for eight key challenges that most businesses face, and offers an application framework for these business challenges through exercises, activities, and resources.
An essential guide for any business seeking to use design thinking as a problem-solving tool as well as a business method to transform companies and cultures
The framework is based on work developed by the author for an executive program in Design Thinking taught in Harvard Graduate School of Design
Author Idris Mootee is a management guru and a leading expert on applied design thinking
Revolutionize your approach to solving your business's greatest challenges through the power of Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation.
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword Erik Roth x
SCENE 01 There's No More Business As Usual viii
The Butterfly Effect and Long-Range Planning 12
Applied Design Thinking Is Strategic Innovation 16
Time to Think beyond Crisis Mode 18
Changing Management Paradigms 22
SCENE 02 What Is Design Thinking, Really? 26
Is Design Thinking a Science or an Art? 34
Design Thinking Has Been Oversimplified 38
SCENE 03 Applied Design Thinking in Business and Strategy 46
Design Thinking to the Rescue 56
We've Lost Touch with What's around Us 58
Every Future Business Leader Needs to Be a Good Design Thinker 60
The 10 Design Thinking Principles That Redefine Business Management 62
SCENE 04 Introducing the Design Thinking MBA 76
Business Challenge 01: Growth 82
Business Challenge 02: Predictability 94
Business Challenge 03: Change 108
Business Challenge 04: Maintaining Relevance 118
Business Challenge 05: Extreme Competition 126
Business Challenge 06: Standardization 136
Business Challenge 07: Creative Culture 148
Business Challenge 08: Strategy and Organization 156
SCENE 05 Hiring Design Thinkers Is Not Enough; We Need to Create Design Thinking Companies 188
About the Author 203
Photo Credits 204
Index 205