Maciej Ryś in Conversation with Renee Bales About Sparks for Innovation

Maciej Ry and Renee Bales discuss the unique applications of hackathons, the author’s research process, and Sparks for Innovation.

May 15, 2024

Natalie Foley in Conversation with Robyn Massey on The Experimentation Field Book

Organizations place great value on innovation. Yet to achieve innovation—whether via new products, services, or strategies—experimentation is key. Indeed, experimentation is the link between generating new ideas and putting them into practice. On the face of it, this sounds straightforward....

April 5, 2023

Learning from Nature How to Inhabit the Earth

Henry Dicks

Earth Month provides an opportunity not just to raise environmental awareness but also to think more deeply about alternative ways of inhabiting the earth. In my new book, The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning from Nature How to Inhabit the Earth, I...

July 30, 2021

Can Design Thinking Contribute to Fostering Equity and Inclusion?

By Jeanne Liedtka

The quest for a way to actually live and teach the principles of inclusion and equality, at schools, at work, and at home, has taken on a new urgency today. Debates on the relative merits of various approaches have ensued,...

September 11, 2018

Book Excerpt! Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate

“Cities today are hotbeds of innovation for sustainable development, and Smarter New York City presents a compendium of fascinating and insightful case studies of how New York City is building a smarter, fairer, and greener city. This is a brilliant, timely, and...

October 4, 2013

King: Four Design Thinking Tools for Engaging Your Team

This week our featured book is Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett. Today, we feature a Aug 2013 article by Andrew King, co-author of “Solving Problems with Design...

October 3, 2013

Kevin Bennett on How Design Thinking Leads to Better Planning

In an August 2013 Forbes article Kevin Bennett, co-author with Jeanne Liedtka and Andrew King of of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: 10 Stories of What Works,” explains how design thinking can create a better understanding of today to get...

October 2, 2013

Jeanne Liedtka on the "Moses Myth" of Innovation

Today we continue our week-long feature of Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett and published by Columbia Business School Publishing. (And don’t forget to enter our book giveaway...

October 1, 2013

Design Thinking for the Financial Industry via "Solving Problems with Design Thinking"

This week our featured book is Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett. In the following excerpt from the book, the authors provide a case study of design thinking...

January 11, 2013