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The design process with its elements of open brainstorming, interdisciplinary collaboration, prototyping, implementation and continuous development is a comprehensive approach to solving business problems. But do not use most companies do it, and even worse, do not learn most business schools do not.

Design thinking is essentially a searching approach, projects, inductive, deductive and abductive reasoning collaboration with the group is based in combination. Instead of just providing analysis and rigorous quantitative analysis, the goal of the design process, to keep generating ideas for the client. It is almost anthropological insights on how to identify the user to interact, and the product or service and how to best optimize these actions and reactions.

As more companies Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Philips Electronics, Apple, Nike and Levi Strauss, have greater responsibility for its leaders to adapt the design approach to problem solving, business schools is to develop a curriculum that integrates design, with a focus.

Many forward-thinking business schools is extensive, this change in thinking and curriculum development, hybrid models and strategic partnerships with design schools. The Rotman School of Management, Stanford University, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and INSEAD in Paris sterling examples of schools at the top. Business schools are teaching at present a close form of cooperation. It's about finding someone to share the same views and opinions, and how to work with them. The design strategy is to work with people to be their way of thinking is no different than your own, to promote new techniques and unique insights.

Business schools not teach no understanding of users, visualize something that does not exist now, prototypes, and continuous improvement. Unfortunately, barrier design thinking in business schools is widespread. Semantic gaps, incorrect understanding of the process of idea generation, conceptual blocks and social barriers that exist in abundance in many tertiary institutions. Teachers also have an interactive approach instead of "I'm right, listen to me" mentality that they need to learn more LED act as a mediator between student groups and providing expert advice and the most important outcomes of education.

Responsibility must be taken not only to business schools, design thinking, but also the companies themselves, from small businesses to large multinational companies. Roger Martin of Rotman School of Business, says: "We stand on the threshold of a design revolution in business and as a result of today's entrepreneurs now need to understand better developers, designers must. Firm-driven specific Executive Education programs can cause problems design thinking, ad-hoc methods and to teach the development of in-house design talent.

General Electric Healthcare will send its senior managers in Crotonville Learning Center in Ossining, NY for technology development course. Managers put out of their comfort zone, and an emphasis on creativity, imagination and problem-solving tool. Training program with the appointment of designers, is the executive level linked increases the bottom line and adding a culture that the company keeps on the edge of innovation.

Success Design thinking is evident in many large companies. Well, the company has the greatest success of a foundation for the design and construction point of view, design thinking Apple Inc.. Apple has always invented analyst forecasts and earnings quarter after quarter of turmoil, despite a weakened economy and livelihood of many cheaper substitutes. Jonathan Ives, Vice President Product Design at Apple argues that the focus is to design a motivation, a product that makes it easy and intuitive to use and plays the role of the customer. Ives has joined the ears of the mysterious Apple CEO Steve Jobs, and since the duo at the 1997 products that have revolutionized both personal computers and music industry establishment.

Design is thinking of small and large companies used. The goal is that, outside an established way of thinking and approach to a problem or project with a designer mentality step. As a business school and begin to individual companies to recruit, train, hire and rely on designers and design thinking of the customer's direct benefit of better products and services, to see.