Transform with Design: Creating New Innovation Capabilities with Design Thinking

Design thinking is an alternative approach to innovation that requires a new mindset and embraces ambiguity, risk-taking, and collaboration. Transform with Design presents examples of creative organizations across industries and geographies and recounts the stories of how they adapted design thinking to build their innovation capabilities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2023
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Design thinking is a widely recognized approach to innovation that challenges traditional methods and embraces ambiguity, risk-taking, and collaboration. Transform with Design showcases examples of creative organizations across industries and geographies, and recounts the stories of how they adapted design thinking to build their innovation capabilities. Written by leading industry experts and design-thinking scholars, the book features ten anecdotal experiences by professionals who detail the implementation of design thinking as it unfolded for them. Contributors share how they navigated the many barriers and obstacles they encountered along the way and describe their experience from early beginnings to the present, revealing valuable lessons for anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation. Providing a rich tapestry of examples, anecdotes, and lessons that place design thinking in perspective, Transform with Design is for innovators interested in learning how design has transformed organizations while also gaining a current perspective on what others are doing in their field.

Design thinking is a widely recognized approach to innovation that challenges traditional methods and embraces ambiguity, risk-taking, and collaboration. Transform with Design showcases examples of creative organizations across industries and geographies, and recounts the stories of how they adapted design thinking to build their innovation capabilities. Written by leading industry experts and design-thinking scholars, the book features ten anecdotal experiences by professionals who detail the implementation of design thinking as it unfolded for them. Contributors share how they navigated the many barriers and obstacles they encountered along the way and describe their experience from early beginnings to the present, revealing valuable lessons for anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation. Providing a rich tapestry of examples, anecdotes, and lessons that place design thinking in perspective, Transform with Design is for innovators interested in learning how design has transformed organizations while also gaining a current perspective on what others are doing in their field.

Weight: 620g
Dimension: 160 x 240 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487506094