With The Design of Business, Roger Martin demonstrates how companies can successfully adopt the methodologies and perspectives that designers use to solve problems and run more efficient, effective ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on simple, actionable ways to simplify small business life. How many times have you left a formal meeting and doubted that ...

Design thinking can be a powerful approach that helps organizations break through their limiting assumptions of what is possible. It creates deep empathy and gets us out of the abstract debate over ...

Design thinking is a classroom strategy that can facilitate 21 st century skills while allowing students to take action on topics they are passionate about says Sanjli Gidwaney, Director, Design for ...

Higher education has entered into an era of transition. Changing student demographics, rapidly evolving stakeholder demands, and new technologies are requiring universities to reconsider abiding ...

Customer-centric solutions demand empathy. But, how we employ this principle within design thinking is as critical—if not more—as what we do in the process. Certain slices can be easily ...

Design thinking is a process that many professionals, including journalists, have discovered and adopted in the last few years to create products focused on users. Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner ...

A former lawyer explains how the methodology led her to try out life as a pastry chef before getting a master’s in psychology. In 2009, my law career stalled. I was burned out and ready to make a ...

I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

Design thinking is on the way in, and liberal arts colleges are on the way out. Skim the headlines of today’s higher education news, and it would be hard to avoid these impressions. IDEO Executive ...

We had our assignment: Find ways to encourage lifelong learning. But we weren’t going to have a meeting. We weren’t going to form a committee. We weren’t going to write a grant. Instead, about 50 ...

For the world to grapple with pressing challenges like climate change, healthcare crises, and social inequality, the role of ...