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, ...

The design thinking process is a two-pronged approach that involves both empathetic ideology and a process that aims to find the best possible solution for gaps in the market or problems in a given ...

Ideo partner Michael Hendrix discusses how design thinking can be used as a superficial tool to make a company seem innovative–even when it’s not. Ideo as an institution has rarely responded 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The high-touch, enterprise sales process needs a lesson from design thinking: Align yourself around your customer’s journey, and develop tools and training that create a more consultative experience ...

Most universities aspire to produce job-ready graduates who can solve complex problems, work across cultures and adapt to change. Yet in many classrooms, students are rewarded for reproducing the ...