From my point if view the key advantage of this creativity approach is the user-centric focus to derive solutions and foster idea finding. I use it especially in the UI and mobility domain.
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Dec 11, 2019 4:29 AM
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Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
For me design thinking is another perspective of bringing discipline to a project. As a (project) manager you should know about it. It is not a silver bullet.
Design thinking, systems thinking, problem solving, lateral thinking, critical thinking, project planning, data driven decision making and other buzzwords are different in approaches and tackle all the same: how do we create more certainty. Which is a question about emotions, not facts by the way.
And design thinking offers good advice here since it is human centric.
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Dec 08, 2019 1:45 PM
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Dear Thomas Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion.
In projects where you are a manager, do you often use this approach?
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Like all other methods and tools, Design Thinking is well suited to some contexts and not to others. It also needs to be implemented correctly in order to solve problems or build good products - like most tools, it can be misused.
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Dec 08, 2019 1:48 PM
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Dear Kiron
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 08, 2019 10:24 AM
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For me design thinking is another perspective of bringing discipline to a project. As a (project) manager you should know about it. It is not a silver bullet.
Design thinking, systems thinking, problem solving, lateral thinking, critical thinking, project planning, data driven decision making and other buzzwords are different in approaches and tackle all the same: how do we create more certainty. Which is a question about emotions, not facts by the way.
And design thinking offers good advice here since it is human centric.
Dear Thomas Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion.
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 08, 2019 12:43 PM
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Luis -
Like all other methods and tools, Design Thinking is well suited to some contexts and not to others. It also needs to be implemented correctly in order to solve problems or build good products - like most tools, it can be misused.
Kiron
Dear Kiron
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In which contexts do you recommend using this approach?
What are your recommendations on how Design Thinking should be implemented?
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Dec 08, 2019 2:55 PM
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Luis -
New or revised products would be a good target for design thinking, especially if those are complex products with needs and wants from multiple stakeholders.
I would suggest that the team and organizational culture in which this is practiced needs to encourage experimentation as well as empowerment of the team.
Reading the principles of Design Thinking, it's a rebranded form of Systems Thinking/ systems engineering. It's a top down approach of first understanding the problem and developing alternate solutions prior to downselecting the preferred approach, elaborating on the solution, validating the solution, and verifying the results.
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Dec 08, 2019 2:17 PM
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Dec 12, 2019 1:58 AM
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Keith,
in my understanding design thinking differs from systems thinking in several ways:
- DT is human centric, ST is more an engineering approach to a system
- DT includes looking at solutions being technical viable and economically realistic, ST does not have this limitation
- DT uses prototyping, ST may be not
Both share that there is a problem space and a solution space, but ST could start after the problem is laid out, DT not.
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 08, 2019 1:50 PM
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Reading the principles of Design Thinking, it's a rebranded form of Systems Thinking/ systems engineering. It's a top down approach of first understanding the problem and developing alternate solutions prior to downselecting the preferred approach, elaborating on the solution, validating the solution, and verifying the results.
Dear Keith
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Dear Kiron
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion.
In which contexts do you recommend using this approach?
What are your recommendations on how Design Thinking should be implemented?
Luis -
New or revised products would be a good target for design thinking, especially if those are complex products with needs and wants from multiple stakeholders.
I would suggest that the team and organizational culture in which this is practiced needs to encourage experimentation as well as empowerment of the team.
Kiron
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Dec 09, 2019 4:42 AM
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Dear kiron
Thanks for this tip
What makes design thinking, in your opinion, an innovative approach?
Luis,
I use it very extensively when managing projects. It all boils down to understanding the problem well enough that you can determine the difference between solution approaches to find the best fit.
It doesn't matter whether it is engineering design, training development, office processes, or organizational management. All require tailoring the solution to the problem to find the best fit. Once you have established that architectural level concept of the project, when things don't go as planned, you understand the qualities of the solution necessary to realign the plan to the problem.
One cautionary note is that when you shift from pure engineering to consider people as part of the solution, you must have empathy. People don't respond based purely on the laws of physics. That requires considering not only how the solution addresses the underlying problem, but also how the solution approach impacts individuals contributing to the solution. The ideal technical solution might not be a good fit for the team asked to do the work.
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Dec 09, 2019 4:50 AM
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Dear keith
Thanks for your comment
Instead of a problem perspective approach, a solution perspective approach
Very interesting
Do you usually involve people in finding the solution?
What people do you usually involve?
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 08, 2019 2:55 PM
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Luis -
New or revised products would be a good target for design thinking, especially if those are complex products with needs and wants from multiple stakeholders.
I would suggest that the team and organizational culture in which this is practiced needs to encourage experimentation as well as empowerment of the team.
Kiron
Dear kiron
Thanks for this tip
What makes design thinking, in your opinion, an innovative approach?
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1 reply by Kiron Bondale
Dec 09, 2019 8:10 AM
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I don't know that I'd consider it necessarily innovative - it is more about creating a deep empathy-based connection to all the potential users of a product, service or result and then using that knowledge with short feedback loops to build good outputs.
Just as most of what is in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development is "common sense" the same might be said about Design Thinking.
