Kevin Bennett

“What’s the big deal about design thinking?”

June 19, 2020

“What’s the big deal about design thinking?” You’ve probably asked that question, one to which Jeanne Liedtka responds in a brilliant article she wrote for Harvard Business Review. * * * Because design thinking is a social technology, it has…

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Well-Designed: A book review by Bob Morris

November 16, 2014

Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love Jon Kolko Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to focus on people, celebrate emotional value, and drive optimism through lateral and divergent thinking I share Jon Kolko’s high regard for…

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Jeanne Liedtka on “Some Defining Characteristics of Design Thinking”

November 25, 2013

In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design. Every…

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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

October 13, 2013

Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett Columbia Business School Publishing (2013) Here’s a blueprint “for deploying design thinking across levels and functions in order to embed a more creative…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 10/7/13)

October 13, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett The Multiplier Effect: Tapping…

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