In 2014, Tides hired its fourth CEO in four years. Founded in 1976, Tides’ legacy as a progressive provider of services and programming for philanthropists and nonprofits worldwide had fallen behind, ...

In recent years, more and more technology teams have opted to leverage design-thinking principles when building new software and tools. With a heavy emphasis on empathy and creativity, the multistep ...

Every entrepreneur says they want more ideas for their company. But that’s not strictly true. What we all really want is more profitable ideas. The point of encouraging innovation, after all, is to ...

In Design Thinking for the Greater Good (Columbia University Press), co-authors Liedtka, Randy Salzman and Daisy Azer share 10 stories of the struggles and successes in fields such as health care, ...

Design thinking is an experience-based and user-centric method for solving problems. This human-centered approach engages end-users and employees in a multi-step, ongoing process of co-creation, to ...

Design thinking, with its focus on problem-solving in a structured way, can help ready students for the workplace – and doesn’t require a curriculum overhaul, writes Asrif Yusoff ...

Rather than being a creative activity, problem-solving sessions for many businesses are nothing more than an exercise in analytics. And far too often, these sessions happen in boardrooms, where the ...

Innovation matters to everyone, including managers in small or large organizations, start-up entrepreneurs, those in government roles, or teachers. This course looks at how individuals and ...

At a recent teaching conference in Richmond, Virginia, a session on “design thinking” in education drew a capacity crowd. Two middle-school teachers demonstrated how they had used the concept to plan ...

Are you a creative or inventive person? Or would you like to be? Would you like to harness your creativity to solve problems for your company or for society? Would you like to add design-driven ...