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Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation : What They Can't Teach You at Business or Design School.
Title:
Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation : What They Can't Teach You at Business or Design School.
Author:
Mootee, Idris.
ISBN:
9781118748855
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Contents:
Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowldgments -- Forword -- Scene 01: There's No More Business As Usual -- The Butterfly Effect and Long-Range Planning -- Applied Design Thinking Is Strategic Innovation -- Time to Think beyond Crisis Mode -- Changing Management Paradigms -- Scene 02: What Is Design Thinking, Really? -- Is Design Thinking a Science or an Art? -- Design Thinking Has Been Oversimplified -- Scene 03: Applied Design Thinking in Business and Strategy -- Design Thinking to the Rescue -- We've Lost Touch with What's around Us -- Every Future Business Leader Needs to Be a Good Design Thinker -- The 10 Design Thinking Principles That Redefine Business Management -- 01 Design Thinking Is Action - Oriented -- 02 Design Thinking Is Comfortable with Change -- 03 Design Thinking Is Human - Centric - -- 04 Design Thinking Integrates Foresight -- 05 Design Thinking Is a Dynamic Constructive Process -- 06 Design Thinking Promotes EMpathy -- 07 Design Thinking Reduces Risks -- 08 Design Thinking Can Create Meaning -- 09 Design Thinking Can Bring Enterprise Creativity to Next Level -- 10 Design Thinking Is The New Competitive Logic of Business Strategy -- Scene 04: Introducing the Design Thinking MBA -- Business Challenge 01: Growth -- Growth Needs a Strategy, and Every Strategy Needs a Story -- Design Thinking Approach 01: Storytelling -- Building Empathy and Empowering Transformation -- Business Challenge 02: Predictability -- Design Thinking Approach 02: Strategic Foresight -- Why Does Business Need Strategic Foresight? -- Design Thinking and Strategic Foresight? -- What Are Weak Signals? -- Business Challenge 03: Change -- Design Thinking Approach 03: Sense making -- From Sensing to Sense Making -- Business Challenge 04: Maintaining Relevance -- Design Thinking Approach 04: Value Redefinition.

Business Challenge 05: Extreme Competition -- Design Thinking Approach 05: Experience Design -- Understanding the Four Key Dimensions of Experience Design -- Business Challenge 06: Standardization -- Design Thinking Approach 06: Humanization -- Humanization From and Within Culture -- Humanizing Through Language -- Business Challenge 07: Creative Culture -- Design Thinking Approach 07: Rapid Prototyping -- The Benefits of Prototyping in Business Design -- Building, Fostering, and Embedding Creative Confidence -- Business Challenge 08: Strategy and Organization -- Design Thinking Approach 08: Business Model Design -- The Functions and Overcomplexity of Business Models -- What's the Difference Between Business Model and Business Strategy? -- Business Model Versus Business Strategy -- Business Model Design Framework -- Starting with the Concept Metaphor -- Scene 05: Hiring Design Thinkers Is Not Enough -- We Need to Create Design Thinking Companies -- About the Author -- Photo Credits -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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