Today’s organizations face multifaceted problems that are part of increasingly complex business models. Continued expansion of global transactions, supported by partnerships that can span large ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Candice Georgiadis Design ...

The following is the second of two excerpts from The Way to Design, a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses. It was adapted and reprinted with the author’s ...

In the early 2000s something new appeared on the education scene, adapted from the worlds of innovation and business where it was developed. It was called, simply and descriptively, design thinking.

The endless succession of failed projects forces one to question why success is elusive, with an extraordinary number of projects tangling themselves in knots. These projects are like a child's string ...

Design thinking is a process that many professionals, including journalists, have discovered and adopted in the last few years to create products focused on users. Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner ...

Most businesses struggle with innovation, not because they lack ideas, but because they lack a clear and effective process. Great ideas don’t emerge in a vacuum. They require structure, iteration, and ...

I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

In this one-day workshop, participants will discover Design Thinking — an innovative, human-centered approach to problem solving — which can be applied throughout academic, professional, ...