Episode 56: The 5 Steps of the Design Thinking Process & Its Impact on Your Business, with Edgar Papke
Release Date: 02/21/2018
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info_outlineAs a consultant, author, speaker and coach, Edgar Papke is dedicated to helping leaders build cultures of innovation and better align their organizations and teams to drive new ideas, produce change, and deliver meaningful solutions. He is the author of the books True Alignment and The Elephant In The Boardroom, and he is also the co-author of Innovation By Design.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- Design thinking process: a way of engaging people and getting them to collaborate at a significant level through which you can identify and solve the right problems
- The five steps of the Design Thinking process: to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test
- Edgar and Thomas Lockwood’s book “Innovation By Design” that was born from studying the most innovative cultures in the world
- The common thread of design thinking that all of the cultures studied for the book implemented
- Empathizing in design thinking: understanding the experience of the customer
- Ignoring your personal experience: the most challenging aspect of the empathizing process
- Brainstorming without limits: why the brainstorming process must allow for any idea to be heard
- Who should be in charge of design thinking throughout an organization (and why this depends on the makeup of the organization)
- Why culture dictates accountability for design thinking
- The three types of culture
- How to implement the design thinking process in your organization
Ways to contact Edgar:
- Website: innoalignment.com
A transcript of this episode is available here: http://systemexecution.com/5-steps-design-thinking-process/