Best Practice Report

Design Thinking That Works: How To Generate Buy-In

Design Thinking On Budget And On Time

March 21st, 2023
Sheila Mahoutchian, null
Sheila Mahoutchian
With contributors:
Ian Jacobs , Georgiana Swan , Shayna Neuburg

Summary

Design thinking has been the topic of many discussions over the last several years. But despite its ubiquitous presence and abundance of resources, it remains largely misunderstood. It’s often regarded as an unhelpful, distracting waste of time rather than the collaboration-enabling, disruption-empowering, critical-thinking, problem-solving tool it was designed to be. This report investigates the reasons that design thinking typically fails and discusses concrete tactics that can help set the stage to create organizational buy-in.

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