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Design Thinking Case Studies

InnovationTraining.org

Find examples of how design thinking is used to solve problems, prototype, and innovate. As more organizations and companies across the world adopt design thinking into their operations, it becomes even more obvious just how essential innovation is for continued success and growth. Netflix’s Innovative Updates.

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Changes in Leadership, Reflection, and Reduced Commitment to Outdated Plans

Michael Roberto

University of North Carolina scholars Hanna Kalmanovich-Cohen, Matthew Pearsall, and Jessica Siegel Christian have published an interesting new study in a paper titled, " The effects of leadership change on team escalation of commitment." For 1/2 of the teams, the researchers changed the group leaders after the first round of the simulation.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Possible Design Improvements.

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Find inspiration behind these 3 surprising market creation stories

Christensen Institute

Web browsers simply weren’t available when Simon was conceived in the 90s, but when the iPhone came along in 2007 it had full access to the internet, and the ability to download many additional applications. At first its design was seen as anti-Christian and villainous, and later it was seen as too feminine.

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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) UK productivity has fallen to levels it held in 2007. Who is going to design and program the robots? Resistance to change. Managers and staff are often risk averse and reluctant to change. We have critical skill shortages in engineering, software, data analysis and IT.

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Shifting innovation from a vague buzzword to a mechanism of progress

Christensen Institute

In Improve or Transform , our “how-to” guide for health care executives seeking to effectively change their business models, we help leaders identify the business model that is right for them. High-performing companies like Intuit design for what is valuable to consumers and customers.

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Nomination Wanted: 2015 Thinkers50

Matthew May

My three areas of focus — strategy, innovation, and lean — are all founded on the ground-level, everyday application of Roger Martin’s Play-to-Win framework (strategy), IDEO/Stanford d school-originated design thinking (innovation), and Toyota-born systems thinking (lean). Designer, The Play-To-Win Canvas.

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