Innovative Design Thinking

Your Customer Is a Marshmallow: How can we leverage prototyping to better serve our customers? Let's consider the Marshmallow Challenge.

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Before any business can reach a breakthrough, there’s a barrier that needs shattering. It may be outdated processes that stifle innovation. Or a leader who’s…

We often talk about corporate culture as a competitive advantage that’s more impactful than strategy. It’s a valid assertion; and yet, it’s not the whole…

An energy company faced a crisis with a project in the Middle East. Several production holes did not deliver as planned and with the economy…

A consumer goods company had not released a new product to the market in several years. They were losing competitive advantage. In addition Wal-Mart had…

A household products company needed to transform its dispensing technology to deliver significant and sustainable financial performance. They needed new product innovations to compete in…

In our previous discussion, it was revealed that, yes; you too are a designer — regardless of your job title or function. That said, one of…

Previously, we established that those of us who seek to solve problems by creating impactful solutions, regardless of job title or function is, intrinsically, designers. We…

Before exploring the hallmarks of design thinking, let’s first consider this: Who is a designer? Typically — early in the process of innovation consulting — when I…

Enterprise innovation projects are sometimes complex and lengthy efforts; so when it’s time to consider a no-go, it’s a tough call. When innovation works, it can…

Breakthrough thinking comes with challenging your frame of reference, re-examining your assumptions, what you call the “truth”, inspecting habits, and breaking through the “it-cannot-be-done” or…