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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.

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 . Many companies have lost confidence in the old ways of running a business. Enter Design Thinking. It can be applied to make sense of and bring about creative solutions to current and complex business problems. This book presents a framework of Design Thinking that is relevant to business, marketing, and design strategies and provides a toolkit to apply design concepts for immediate use in everyday work. The book is organized into four sections. The first two serve as an introduction to Design Thinking, including its values and application in the business world. The third section looks at sixteen key problems that most businesses face, with each challenge targeted by a tailored Design Thinking approach. The final section provides an application framework for these business challenges through exercises, activities, and resources. It provides real life examples to show how Design Thinking is applied across different industries and contexts, including an illustrated outcome to show the tangibility of the practices. The book is an essential guide for any business seeking to use design as a problem-solving tool as well as a business method to transform companies and cultures.