Publications
Publications
- 2015
- Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets
Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
By: Srikant Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
Abstract
In 2012 we set out to answer two key questions. Can anyone, including MBAs and executives with superb analytical skills, learn to think more innovatively? If so, how might we go about developing these skills? Through close collaboration with individuals from major design thinking practices and innovation firms (e.g. IDEO, frog design, LUMA Institute), we have developed a semester long, cross-disciplinary, “doing” course that presents students with a conceptual framework for a human-centered innovation process and provides them tools for engaging in that process, as well as many opportunities to practice. After several years our conclusion is that these skills can be developed by anyone open and willing to practice and develop these critical skills. This chapter gives an overview of the course curriculum, complete with the conceptual framework, underlying principles, range of tools and examples of how these tools can be applied.
Keywords
Design Thinking; Problem Solving; Innovation; Design; Innovation and Invention; Cognition and Thinking
Citation
Datar, Srikant, and Caitlin N. Bowler. "Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving." Chap. 7 in Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development, edited by Jordi Canals, 119–138. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.