No matter the organization or the issue, there are two essential things all organizations must gain a full grasp of when resolving challenges. First, a full understanding of the issue. Second, the optimal framework to address the issue. Design thinking achieves better results than traditional approaches because it simplifies and humanizes the challenges that organizations face.
Understanding how people interact with products or concepts and developing solutions around those interactions is at the core of design thinking. By gathering stakeholders from different departments and different levels of an organization, and by focusing on the basic human needs and behaviors of the audience, design thinkers immerse themselves in a singular problem to come to an innovative solution.
The process of design thinking is generally understood to consist of 5 key stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
This is a collaborative, human-centric process that allows for the exploration of multiple solutions to a single problem, quickly and effectively. It empowers an entire workforce - not just designers - to question approaches and ideate on a wide range of possible solutions.
Design thinking is particularly useful for tackling the thorniest problems – getting to the root cause of an issue and applying critical thinking to develop the new solutions. Organizations become aware of a problem and often jump to a solution based on a cursory understanding of where the problem lies, informed by narrow personal experiences and expertise. Even good leaders and subject matter experts don’t always consider that there may be alternative solutions.
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