Divergent and convergent thinking
Divergent thinking Divergent thinking is where you open your mind, change your thought process, and encourage creative thinking and wild ideas – nothing is off-limits. It’s considered a spontaneous, organic, …
Course: Create Innovative Teams with Design Thinking
What are wicked problems?
The world is faced with an ever-growing number of highly complex (wicked) issues such as climate change, health management, poverty, and more. According to Richard Buchanan, a wicked problem (a …
Course overview
Welcome to Create Innovative Teams with Design Thinking. We are delighted to be sharing this learning journey with you. This course aims to introduce you to the role of design …
Deal with the ambiguity
In the last step, we identified the parts of a project where ambiguity can crop up. But how can we deal with it when it does? Let’s take a look. …
Ideating with Crazy 8s
Now we’ve set the scene for a great ideation experience for ourselves and our team members, let’s turn to how we can actually carry out ideation. We’ll focus on one …
Acknowledge the ambiguity
We’ve talked a lot about ambiguity in this course. Why? Because it’s one of the biggest barriers we see to people new to design thinking and can be a significant …
Teamwork and design thinking in action
To kick off the week, I want to tell you about one of the world’s most celebrated product design companies, IDEO, and their approach to design thinking in the organisation. …
Finding a definition
If you did an online search in the hope of finding a single definition of design thinking, you would end up being disappointed. Your search results will produce a number …
The Good Kitchen case study
Now that we’ve explored some more principles of design thinking, let’s explore a case study that brings them to life. Share your thoughts Use this opportunity to reflect on the …
Reclaim your creative confidence
We’ve already seen the importance of creativity in design thinking: it was one of the principles we looked at last week. Creativity includes being willing to think outside the box, …
Recognising barriers to ideation
Ideation is the practice of generating, producing, visualising, and communicating ideas in an effective and meaningful way to shareholders, colleagues, or interested parties. Ideation can be difficult for some, depending …