Ten years ago, SSIR published a seminal article on using design thinking in social innovation. The concepts it outlined went on to become a major component of strategic changemaking by civil society ...

Is your company leveraging design thinking? There are several different approaches to accomplishing a project or delivering a new product. For some organizations, implementing Lean principles and ...

Over the years the question of what makes some companies, and the people within, more or less creative than others has been studied ad nauseam. The idea of innovation within business has long been ...

What does design thinking in practice look like? There has been much talk about its power and efficacy. However, when you ...

Today’s organizations face multifaceted problems that are part of increasingly complex business models. Continued expansion of global transactions, supported by partnerships that can span large ...

Design thinking: It started as an academic theory in the 60’s, a notion of starting to look at broader types of challenges with the intention and creativity that designers use to tackle their work. It ...

Discussions of the redesign and reinvention of higher education are abundant. Inspired by the challenges of this past year, leaders across higher education seem preoccupied with two sets of issues: 1.

Rather than being a creative activity, problem-solving sessions for many businesses are nothing more than an exercise in analytics. And far too often, these sessions happen in boardrooms, where the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Remember when Amazon was just the world’s biggest bookseller? After broadening its products to include, well, everything and optimizing ...

Human-centered design offers a more holistic and people-driven approach to problem-solving and product development. Here’s why this hands-on method has continued to be popular among inventors and ...

Continuum tackles the mortgage disclosure form–and how telling the narrative of a home purchase played a decisive role in its design. Three years after the financial meltdown, housing prices are still ...