The need for problem-solving is at the heart of many businesses in scaling. Utilizing an effective problem-solving strategy can often impact a business’s value and how much revenue it can generate.

System design work is not easy. Sometimes, when you’re out walking or cycling, or maybe simply pouring a glass of water while taking a break, an idea or aphorism might arise in your mind. For example, ...

When A.G. Lafley was named CEO of Procter & Gamble during the summer of 2000, the task of turning the organization around looked overwhelming. The price of a share in the consumer packaged goods giant ...

A longtime marketing executive describes how to implement design thinking methods into company leadership — and just what it can do for a workplace — in this guest op-ed. What design thinking entails, ...

Greg Holderfield is director of the Segal Design Institute, clinical associate professor and co-director of the MMM program. In the first of two posts, Holderfield discusses what makes design thinking ...

Facilitators can help design teams with the application of systems thinking methods and the group dynamics involved in the application of these methods. Good, we can debate this further, but slowing ...

Ten years ago, SSIR published a seminal article on using design thinking in social innovation. The concepts it outlined went on to become a major component of strategic changemaking by civil society ...

Aspiring designers should pursue education, seek mentorship, and build portfolios to navigate their careers effectively and ...

The test scores are out again. And once again, American kids aren’t doing so well. You can choose any of the international standardized tests and on average, American children will always be stuck in ...

This week, I had the opportunity to participate in a design thinking session run by professor Eugene Korsunskiy. It was wicked good. (Can you tell that I grew up in Boston?) Nowadays, it seems as if ...

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 ...