Design Thinking Methodology
- 4 Courses | 1h 30m 21s
- 12 Books | 41h 32m
- 4 Audiobooks | 16h 49m 23s
Design thinking enables organizations to create value by more effectively ideating to uncover a broader set of possible products and services to better meet customer needs, deepen customer and supplier relationships, and improve the design of digital experiences. Design thinking refers to the cognitive, strategic and practical processes by which design concepts are developed. The process revolves around developing an understanding of the people for whom you're designing your products or services. This can help you better target your end user and make your clients happier.
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Design Thinking for Innovation: Stakeholder Engagement
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COURSES INCLUDED
Design Thinking for Innovation: Stakeholder Engagement
Engaging directly with stakeholders increases empathy and helps identify motivations and unmet needs, enabling the creation of successful solutions. In this course, you'll learn how to identify and interact with key stakeholders and communicate their point of view through effective design thinking methods. This course was developed with subject matter provided by PDD. (www.pddinnovation.com)
7 videos |
22m
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PMI PDU
Design Thinking for Innovation: Defining Opportunities
Engaging with stakeholders produces valuable data, which can be constructively used for analyzing the stakeholder experience. In this course, you will learn how to translate data into actionable insights and define opportunities through tools like experience mapping and affinity clustering. This course was developed with subject matter provided by PDD. (www.pddinnovation.com)
7 videos |
22m
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PMI PDU
Design Thinking for Innovation: Brainstorming and Ideation
Brainstorming without structure rarely yields plentiful and new results. In this course, you'll learn techniques to spur creative thinking, and techniques to communicate and critique ideas. This course was developed with subject matter provided by PDD. (www.pddinnovation.com)
7 videos |
23m
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PMI PDU
Design Thinking for Innovation: Prototyping and Testing
The Design Thinking approach advocates early stakeholder engagement in the co-creation and development of solutions. In this course, you'll learn about techniques for prototyping and testing in order to iteratively develop solutions more efficiently with stakeholders. This course was developed with subject matter provided by PDD. (www.pddinnovation.com)
6 videos |
21m
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PMI PDU
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Book
MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Design Thinking MethodologyIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll discover that to reach its full potential, design thinking needs smart alignment with the realities and social dynamics of a business.
30m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Design Thinking in Business Needs a RethinkIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how in order to reach full potential, popular innovation methodology must be more closely aligned with the realities and social dynamics of established businesses.
5m
By Jamie Anderson, Jörg Reckhenrich, Martin Kupp
BOOK SUMMARY
Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for ManagersDesigning for Growth provides a stage-based design thinking process to help business managers conquer challenging problems. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie
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Service Design and Delivery: How Design Thinking Can Innovate Business and Add Value to SocietyApproaching the topic from the innovator's viewpoint as well as from the viewpoint of the social entrepreneur, this book explains the design thinking approach both for designing new services and delivering the services.
1h 23m
By Toshiaki Kurokawa
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Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can't Teach You at Business or Design SchoolProviding a toolkit to apply concepts for immediate use in everyday work, this comprehensive playbook presents a framework for design thinking that is relevant to business management, marketing, and design strategies.
1h 47m
By Idris Mootee
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Design Thinking Research: Making Distinctions: Collaboration versus CooperationOffering readers a closer look at design thinking, its innovation processes and methods, this book shows how these methods and strategies actually work in companies, and introduces new technologies and their functions.
7h 53m
By Christoph Meinel, Hasso Plattner, Larry Leifer (eds)
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Design Thinking: Understand - Improve - ApplyTaking a system's view that begins with a demand for deep, evidence-based understanding of design thinking phenomena, this book provides an exploration of tools which can help improve the adaptive expertise needed for design thinking.
5h 12m
By Christoph Meinel, Hasso Plattner, Larry Leifer (eds)
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The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and EcosystemsPacked with solutions for common challenges including digital transformation, this practical, highly visual discussion shows you how Design Thinking fits into agile methods within management, innovation, and startups.
4h 34m
By Larry Leifer, Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link
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Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product around the PriceWhether you are a CEO, executive leadership, or part of the team responsible for innovation and new product development, this book is for you, with special sections and checklist-driven summaries to make monetizing innovation part of your company's DNA.
3h 54m
By Georg Tacke, Madhavan Ramanujam
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Design Thinking For DummiesThis book guides you through creating solutions by thinking from the customer perspective can lead to new and innovative ideas that old methods could not approach.
5h 5m
By Christian Muller-Roterberg
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Voices of Design Leadership: Insights from Top Collaborative Design FirmsVoices of Design Leadership seeks to educate, inform, and inspire a new generation of diverse design leaders.
6h 18m
By Ken Sanders
Book
Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning NeighborhoodsIn Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods, distinguished architect and affordable housing advocate Charles Durrett delivers a complete, start-to-finish guide for designing anything where the emphasis lies with the community.
4h 40m
By Alex Lin, Charles Durrett, Jingling Yang, Nadthachai Kongkhajornkidsuk, Spencer Nash
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for ManagersDesigning for Growth provides a stage-based design thinking process to help business managers conquer challenging problems. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
24m 5s
By Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires InnovationBy elucidating the thought processes designers use to satisfy real-world problems, Change by Design shows you how to graft design thinking into your business process. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m 21s
By Tim Brown
Audiobook
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Design ThinkingThis audiobook will help you use design thinking to produce breakthrough innovations and transform your organization.
5h 52m 2s
By Harvard Business Review
Audiobook
Design Thinking for DummiesThis audio edition provides a jump-start to get you and your organization on the path to new creativity. Written by a design thinking thought leader, this book helps you through the design thinking cycle and shows how it can help any industry.
10h 21m 55s
By Christian Muller-Roterberg
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Design Thinking
Design thinking enables organizations to create value by more effectively ideating to uncover a broader set of possible products and services to better meet customer needs, deepen customer and supplier relationships, and improve the design of digital experiences. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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