What are the critical design thinking skills and applications?
Steven Forth
CEO Ibbaka Performance - Leader LinkedIn Design Thinking Group - Generative Pricing
Design Thinking has been a topic of growing interest to businesses for the past decade. Influential books such as Change by Design by Tim Brown of IDEO in 2009 and The Design of Business by then Rotman School of Management Dean Roger Martin in the same year sparked the imagination of business people in many industries.
Interest continues to grow. The LinkedIn Design Thinking group now has more than 94,000 members and a search on LinkedIn for ‘design thinking’ returns results for more than one million people and 18,000 companies.
As the leading skill management platform and a company dedicated to design thinking itself TeamFit has decided to find out more about the current state of design thinking. We want to be able to answer the following three questions and we hope you will help us in this quest.
- What skills are really required to apply design thinking?
- How is design thinking being applied and who is doing the work?
- Is design thinking one thing or many?
You can join us on this journey by Taking the Survey
(This is a rather long survey, but we think that it will help you to reflect on your own practices.)
TeamFit will also be working with select companies to get a deeper understanding of their design thinking skills and how they are being applied. Have your company join this select group.
More resources on design thinking …
- Design thinking skills
- Join the LinkedIn Group on Design Thinking and become part of the conversation
- Drink from the source at the Stanford d.school and Hasso Plattner Institut
- See an application to healthcare at ECUAD Health Design Lab
This post was originally published on the TeamFit blog.
Multi-faceted Designer & Artist
7 年Awesome research! Looking forward to seeing what the data will show us about hard and soft skills and how they relate to each other. Furthermore, how these skills relate to those that fall in the attitude and knowledge categories. If there is "one skill to rule them all" in DT that could keep it blasting innovation in the future, I'd say it's the skill of developing skills. Being a professional learner, making tools rather than following a toolkit, being comfortable between learning and delivering. .. that's the golden skill. Abstract and dreamy as it may sound, much like DT itself, it shows up in the outcomes.
Author Stop, Ask, Explore: Learn to Navigate Change in Uncertain Times// Professor Tobin College of Business// Founder WOMBLab //HBR Contributor//Service Design Master Trainer
7 年Looking forward to seeing what this data shows you and how you extrapolate actual skills and their relationship to outcomes versus aspirational skills/reflections and the often idealized coneption of DT. This, I believe, is where the rubber meets the road for the future of DT and its opportunity to trancend buzzword status over time and fulfill its very real potential.