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Design Thinking (design + thinking)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	80%

Selected Abstracts

Design Thinking to Make Organization Change and Development More Responsive

DESIGN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Issue 2 2010
Steve Sato
There are many types of organization change and development (OC&D) approaches, from John Kotter's Leading Change methodology to Robert Schaffer's Rapid Results technique. No matter which you use, success depends on how well it can be adapted to the situation at hand. At Hewlett-Packard, design thinking turned out to be the glue that held everything together. [source]

Unleashing the Power of Design Thinking

DESIGN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Issue 3 2008
Kevin Clark Program Director
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Design Thinking to Make Organization Change and Development More Responsive

Creating Mature Thinkers in Interior Design: Pathways of Intellectual Development

JOURNAL OF INTERIOR DESIGN, Issue 3 2010
Candy Carmel-Gilfilen M. Arch.
Critical thinking skills are essential to meeting the economic, sustainable, and social challenges of the future. The purpose of this study was to explore critical thinking in interior design students using the W. G. Perry (1968) scheme, a model of epistemic cognitive development describing how thinking in college students progresses from black-and-white absolutes to a contextual understanding of knowledge. The authors present findings from a study involving 32 beginning and intermediate interior design students who were empirically assessed on global and design-specific thought development using the Measure of Intellectual Development (Widick & Knefelkamp, 1974) and the Measure of Designing (Portillo, 1987), respectively. The study objectives were to examine thought development in interior design students, investigate the relationship between global and design thinking, and explore relationships between thought development, student performance, and class standing. The results supported three levels of thought development: dualistic, transitional, and multiplistic with overall thinking appeared to be more advanced than thinking in design. The study also revealed both types of thinking significantly related to studio performance and class standing. The Perry model appears to have strong potential for understanding thought development in interior design students. [source]

Object-Oriented Performance Improvement

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2002
Ian Douglas
ABSTRACT In this paper, a framework to support an object-oriented approach to performance analysis is described. The framework includes the use of collaboration, automation, visual modeling, and reusable repositories of analysis knowledge. The need for a new framework is related to the increasing concern with the cost effectiveness of student and employee development. Efforts to improve the return-on-investment in such development have been hindered by a craft orientation to the design and construction of learning and performance support materials. One solution to this problem has been to enhance the reuse of such materials. Rather than build every new system from scratch in a craft-oriented manner, it is envisioned that systems will be constructed largely of standardized, reusable objects shared through Web-based repositories. Currently, the main focus is on the technological framework necessary for an object-based approach to learning system development. There appears to be little consideration of the changes in analysis and design thinking required for the move towards object-based systems. Such systems should still be required to be directly linked to performance problems and opportunities at both the organizational and individual system levels. [source]