The Atlantic

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At a recent teaching conference in Richmond, Virginia, a session on “design thinking” in education drew a capacity crowd. Two middle-school teachers demonstrated how they had used the concept to plan and execute an urban-design project in which stude

The Christian Science Monitor

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Students flock to happiness classes to help them reflect on the big picture. Are helicopter parents or warp speed change to blame for their stress?

Facility Management

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Whether facility managers are coming to grips with something as basic as a faulty elevator, right up to strategising and implementing an organisation’s desire for a new way of working, their only constant is meeting the challenge. With a vastly varyi

Rotman Management

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OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS, design thinking has had an explosive impact on innovation and commercialization, especially within established firms. The Rotman School’s former Dean, Roger Martin, has contributed mightily to these advances, notably through h

Rotman Management

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ASK ANY LEADER TODAY, and they will tell you that innovation is a top priority for their enterprise. In the words of Cisco’s John Chambers: “Disrupt yourself, or be disrupted.” To quote from PwC’s 2017 CEO Survey report, innovation is the most direct

Business Today

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Over the past two months, I had some unusual conversations with senior leaders. During an interaction, the HR leadership of a conglomerate wanted to see how it could use design thinking to frame more user centric HR policies. In another, a leader of

The European Business Review

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Design-led companies such as Apple, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble and SAP have outperformed the S&P 500 by an extraordinary 211%. In this article the author highlights the distinctions between design and design thinking and how the latter, if executed prop

Global Voices

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As the Caribbean begins to think about a post-COVID-19 future, Lesley Ann Noel proposes a design thinking approach to building back the region's economies and social services.

Artichoke

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Lately, how many times have you been asked to justify the value of what you do? Designers seem to come across this every day in our working lives, in sometimes fraught discussions with clients or third parties about fees and services and expectations

Architectural Review Asia Pacific

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Design thinking is the antithesis of resting on your laurels, of reusing past methods and approaches or rehashing ideas. It is about finding the client’s specific problems and then questioning, refining and testing iterations until the appropriate, w

The European Business Review

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Linda Naiman is the founder of CreativityatWork.com and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work. She brings a multi-disciplinary approach to learning and development based on her background as an artist and designer, helping executives and t

Rotman Management

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INNOVATION AND DESIGN have been part of my life for decades. As a former innovation manager in the packaged goods industry, I worked closely with creative people to design products, packaging, communications and services; and as a professor at the Ro

Inc.

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The founder of industrial design firm Fuseproject has revolutionized design at companies large and small. His high-tech secret: Keep it simple

Fast Company

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The idea of an operational process, without a philosophy or values, without a specific stance on how to look at the world, is highly problematic because every groundbreaking design has a philosophy behind it, good or bad. I’m certainly not at the top

The European Business Review

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When properly implemented, design thinking can result in higher success rate for innovation. However, the authors found that 63% of those involved in innovation processes said design thinking initiatives had not advanced. What mistakes should be avoi

Cosmopolitan India

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Do you have a tyrant lady in your life? Boss or friend, it’s time to stand up to her and learn how to deal with that nasty energy with these quick few tips. It’s your first day at a new job. You’re wearing your best pair of heels, your make-up is imm

The Paris Review

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Catherine Lacey (Photo by Daymon Gardner) I read Catherine Lacey’s first novel, the gorgeously despondent Nobody Is Ever Missing, in a gulp. It unfolds like a hungry gasp. Nothing much happens really: one day, Elyria takes off for New Zealand to visi

Quilting Arts Magazine

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After watching deer pass by her kitchen window, Kathy York made a series of deer quilts symbolizing simple living. She explains, “I keep thinking that they do not grocery shop, or prepare meals, or wash all the dishes. They survive by just grazing on

Nadia

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Having the mental energy to be passionate and motivated isn’t always easy. Try these helpful habits: Research shows that inhaling the compounds found in rosemary can improve cognition, specifically speed of thought, concentration and memory. You coul

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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“Look over to the right, and look thoughtful,” instructs our photographer. “Should I look like I’m thinking about my depression?” Kimberley Crossman deadpans, then adopts a dramatically furrowed brow. It’s a moment that beautifully sums up the dual n

strategy and business

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As a senior at Stanford University in 1989, I was passionately interested in mastering two capabilities. The first was design thinking: an influential creative problem-solving method, closely tied to my major in product design (and to the work of man

Artichoke

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Last summer we were in the collective grip of Marie Kondo fever – asking ourselves if our sock drawer “sparked joy” and earnestly applying the “KonMari Method” to tidying up our homes, and by extension, our lives. Perhaps this is just another example

Business Today

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His travel schedules could compare with some of the most elite business travellers. Last year, Saswat Kumar Swain, 36, Associate Manager at Accenture, Bengaluru, spent six months in Sweden and, in the remaining part of the year, found himself in a di

NPR

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With Meghna Chakrabarti Beauty. Politics. Inequality. Gender. Money. Familiar themes endlessly discussed. But are we hearing every essential voice? Rhetorical question, because the answer is obviously no. For example, not enough of us have heard the

MENOPAUSE

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I am always fascinated by the results of this simple, brilliant scientific method. It grasps where words are still missing, makes the invisible visible, strengthens and revitalises easily only with pen and paper. As one of the first qualified neurogr

NZ Marketing

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According to popular understanding, there is a Chinese curse which goes something along the lines of this: ‘May you live in interesting times’. Well, 2020 is certainly that. In addition to the great upheaval caused by Covid-19, we’re also at a moment

The Atlantic

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GOP environmentalists hoped Trump would fight climate change, two credit-reporting firms were caught lying to consumers, the urban-rural divide increased around the world, and more.

Futurity

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Software developers should incorporate the concept of “feminist design thinking” into their development process to improve equity, particularly in the development of software for the hiring process, researchers propose. “There seem to be countless st

Artichoke

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While the entrepreneurial spirit often views failure as a prerequisite to successful outcomes, designers tend to view it differently. That is, designers don’t design quickly to fail, they take a little extra time in order to succeed. Designers rely o

Longevity Magazine

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Have you been there? Depressed and without hope? The dream that life advertised reduced to a sham... a bluff... a lie? I have. The hall of doom and gloom that my mind had become was devoid of optimistic expectation. The ache of loneliness and despair