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11. Design Thinking as a Problem Solving Tool

verfasst von : Rouxelle de Villiers

Erschienen in: The Handbook of Creativity & Innovation in Business

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

In chapter 10 we covered thirteen ideation tools. We dedicate this chapter to Design Thinking (DT), as a procedure to generate and test ideas, and even more importantly as a creative problem-solving methodology. DT is a human-centred process that will help designers, innovators, entrepreneurs and business executives to systematically solve complex problems, not only in product design and businesses processes, systems and other sticky organizational problems, but also in our communities and our everyday lives. Some leading global brands, such as Apple™, Google™ and Samsung™ have adopted the DT approach to complex problem-solving.
As DT is a shift in our way of thinking and a collection of hands-on methods and tools, we devote this chapter to this highly useful, well-honed 5-stage process. The chapter first covers the history of and thinking modalities involved in DT, then examines how various design thinking schools and leading universities (e.g., Stanford, Harvard and MIT) apply the DT principles using models with three to eight stages. Finally this chapter covers the 5-stage DT iterative process we propose for business executives – those who lead multi-disciplinary teams of innovators, ideators, intrapreneurs and others in business problem-solving roles.

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Fußnoten
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Abductive reasoning is a form of logical inference formulated from inconclusive or incomplete information, relying on inference or intuition, and is directly aided and assisted by personal experience.
 
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Tangibilize – make it tangible or concrete; an equivalent term is ‘concretize’.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Design Thinking as a Problem Solving Tool
verfasst von
Rouxelle de Villiers
Copyright-Jahr
2022
Verlag
Springer Nature Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2180-3_11