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In today’s competitive landscape, businesses need every edge they can get. Embracing AI-powered design thinking can be your secret weapon, helping you innovate faster, understand your customers better ...

Few institutions illustrate this point better than education. Because almost every adult has experienced school, it has created a shared mental model for what education should resemble. A confluence ...

This is the second post in a series based on the new free online course, Design Thinking for Leading and Learning, offered through edX and taught by Justin Reich and other guest presenters from the ...

In recent years, more and more technology teams have opted to leverage design-thinking principles when building new software and tools. With a heavy emphasis on empathy and creativity, the multistep ...

What is design thinking, and why is design thinking important? It's an iterative process that begins with empathy and culminates in testing and implementation, only to be followed by further cycles of ...

Every business leader should use a strategic thinking process in approaching goals and overcoming obstacles. The three common components of strategic thinking in business are innovation, strategy ...

Many people think of creativity as an innate talent. It can, however, be learned. In a workshop titled Creativity as a Thinking Process, you will be introduced to Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats.

“In a design paradigm. . .the solution is not locked away somewhere waiting to be discovered but lies in the creative work of the team. The creative process generates ideas and concepts that have not ...

For close to 50 years, educators and politicians from classrooms to the Oval Office have stressed the importance of graduating students who are skilled critical thinkers. Content that once had to be ...