Those who work in highly creative roles are already aware of the impact a unique and innovative design can have on a business’ bottom line. However, a solid design can be applied to more than just a ...

In recent years, more and more technology teams have opted to leverage design-thinking principles when building new software and tools. With a heavy emphasis on empathy and creativity, the multistep ...

In 2014, Tides hired its fourth CEO in four years. Founded in 1976, Tides’ legacy as a progressive provider of services and programming for philanthropists and nonprofits worldwide had fallen behind, ...

In Design Thinking for the Greater Good (Columbia University Press), co-authors Liedtka, Randy Salzman and Daisy Azer share 10 stories of the struggles and successes in fields such as health care, ...

Every entrepreneur says they want more ideas for their company. But that’s not strictly true. What we all really want is more profitable ideas. The point of encouraging innovation, after all, is to ...

Design thinking, with its focus on problem-solving in a structured way, can help ready students for the workplace – and doesn’t require a curriculum overhaul, writes Asrif Yusoff ...

Companies are often a reflection of the industrial revolution; they're focused on putting strong processes in place to run value chains that ensure their business models generate stable, repeatable ...

From bread boards to simulation tools, from the soldering iron to pick and place machines, from manually soldered wires to CNC prototypes, from the lab to the laptop, much of our design process has ...

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 ...

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 ...