Design Thinking at Work

How Innovative Organizations are Embracing Design

By David Dunne | Publisher: University of Toronto Press

About the book

The result of extensive international research with multinationals, governments, and nonprofits, Design Thinking at Work explores the challenges organizations face when developing creative strategies to innovate and solve problems. Noting how many organizations have embraced design thinking as a fresh approach to a fundamental problem, author David Dunne explores in this book how this approach can be applied in practice.

Design thinkers constantly run headlong into challenges in bureaucratic and hostile cultures. Through compelling examples and stories from the field, Dunne explains the challenges they face, how the best organizations, including Procter & Gamble and the Australian Tax Office, are dealing with these challenges, and what lessons can be distilled from their experiences. Essential reading for anyone interested in how design works in the real world, Design Thinking at Work challenges many of the wild claims that have been made for design thinking, while offering a way forward.

Editions of Design Thinking at Work

Hardcover
ISBN 9781487501709
EBook
ISBN 9781487513795
PDF
ISBN 9781487513788

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The result of extensive international research with multinationals, governments, and nonprofits, Design Thinking at Work explores the challenges organizations face when developing creative strategies to innovate and solve problems. Noting how many organizations have embraced design thinking as a fresh approach to a fundamental problem, author David Dunne explores in this book how this approach can be applied in practice.

Design thinkers constantly run headlong into challenges in bureaucratic and hostile cultures. Through compelling examples and stories from the field, Dunne explains the challenges they face, how the best organizations, including Procter & Gamble and the Australian Tax Office, are dealing with these challenges, and what lessons can be distilled from their experiences. Essential reading for anyone interested in how design works in the real world, Design Thinking at Work challenges many of the wild claims that have been made for design thinking, while offering a way forward.

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What is Design Thinking at Work about?

The result of extensive international research with multinationals, governments, and nonprofits, Design Thinking at Work explores the challenges organizations face when developing creative strategies to innovate and solve problems. Noting how many organizations have embraced design thinking as a fresh approach to a fundamental problem, author David Dunne explores in this book how this approach can be applied in practice.

Design thinkers constantly run headlong into challenges in bureaucratic and hostile cultures. Through compelling examples and stories from the field, Dunne explains the challenges they face, how the best organizations, including Procter & Gamble and the Australian Tax Office, are dealing with these challenges, and what lessons can be distilled from their experiences. Essential reading for anyone interested in how design works in the real world, Design Thinking at Work challenges many of the wild claims that have been made for design thinking, while offering a way forward.

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Design Thinking at Work?

Economics, Finance, Business and Management > Business and Management > Management and management techniques > Management: leadership and motivation

Where can I read a sample of Design Thinking at Work?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781487501709

Who is/are the Author/s of the book Design Thinking at Work?

David Dunne

Who is the Publisher of the book Design Thinking at Work?

University of Toronto Press

What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

Design Thinking at Work is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781487501709) and ebook(ISBN 9781487513795) and pdf(ISBN 9781487513788)

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