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Drive Disruption with Design THINKING

Fehmida Kapadia

An hour into the activity, we take a short break to discuss what we are working on and the following conversation ensues “I am writing about design thinking” “Oh! Are you a designer?” “No, No, I am not a designer and that is exactly what I am writing about. Design thinking has become a buzzword today.

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Clarifying Design in Business Sciences: a Design Thinking Taxonomy

Open Innovation EU

The book is a one-of-a-kind taking a much needed reflective approach to leadership and a critical note towards the level of professionalism that many of us are approaching the science of management and entrepreneurship with. But that is, as this book describes perfectly, not the case at all: design thinking simply equals business science.

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

Open Innovation EU

As opposed to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial thinking is not necessarily bound to entrepreneurs (to be); it is an essential skill for ‘strengthening human capital, employability and competitiveness’ (Bacigalupo et al., Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial thinking. That brings us to entrepreneurial thinking.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

Speed of learning is the new unfair advantage. Much like failing becomes learning when you’re going fast, innovation becomes continuous. Stay tuned for more… [link] “Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” A key tenet for doing this well and succeeding in the new world is speed.

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The Lean Scale-Up: Innovation & Entrepreneurship for New Ventures

Open Innovation EU

All this, calls for more organic, innovative and learning organizations that are lead by strategic leaders ( Greiner, 2004 ). As a result, to facilitate the growth of a company, organization design needs process view. Many popular tools are based on this process view on organization design. Simply beautiful.

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Want Innovative Teaching? Apply Startup Principles to Reinvent Learning.

InnovationTraining.org

This guest article on innovative teaching shares ideas and strategies from the The Startup Teacher Playbook: Turn Your Ideas Into Actions, Personalize Professional Development, and Create Innovative Learning Experiences for You and Your Students. We could encourage more ‘unconference’ style learning to share new ideas.

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How to Design for Outcomes

Tim Kastelle

This is a lesson that Timothy Prestero and his organisation Design that Matters learned painfully. In 2010, DtM came out with an incubator designed for use in developing countries that won a ton of awards. A sham fight these days pits “management” against “entrepreneurship” as adversaries, if not as mutually exclusive.

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