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Bringing Design Thinking into the classroom to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future

Betterific

Paul Kim , is a teacher at Colorado Academy and Co-Director of the Redi Lab, and is best known for using the design thinking process to teach History. He is our design thinking guest blogger. Below, Paul lays the case for using design thinking in school. Differentiation by Design. by Paul Kim.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

By using these nascent user-centered design methods, they were able to meet the expanding needs of their user base and claim over 90% of the small business accounting software market. A noticeable lack of focus prevented them from innovating as a company; their user-centered design DNA was disappearing.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Design Competitions. Design for Six Sigma (Idov). Experience Design Process (Armano). Value Proposition Design (Osterwalder). Productive Thinking (Hurson). Double Diamond (Chu).

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

In essence it is nowadays recognized as the difference between creativity (Schumpetarian) and alertness (Kirzner) – creation versus discovering. When to be creative, when to be managerial. Entrepreneurial thinking. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking. Krueger, 2007).

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Options-based Strategy: An Approach for Uncertain Times

The Inovo Group

Sweetgreen [1] was started in 2007 by three seniors at Georgetown University who were fed up with college food and believed there was an opportunity to provide healthy and nutritious fast-food. The founders of Sweetgreen had a robust Today-for-Today strategy designed for the intense competition in fast-casual dining.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A 2007 study by M. A system designed, over the long run, to produce more blockbusters than bombs. For some companies this can be up to 10% of their ‘creative’ budget (R&D, NPD, design, etc.). In this environment, Strategic Innovation needs to be persistent by design. Future-Focused CEOs Bring Innovation.

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A New Model to Start Innovation

Gijs Van Wulfen

Cornelius Herstatt and Birgit Verworn state on this: “Within the innovation process, we believe, the early phases (“fuzzy front end”) to have the highest impact on the whole process and the result, since it will influence the design and total costs of the innovation extremely. There are four common patterns how you start innovation.