From the course: Design Thinking: Understanding the Process

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Guerilla design thinking

Guerilla design thinking

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Guerilla design thinking

- It's one thing to talk about how great design thinking is, it's another thing entirely to implement it in your organization. I've got some suggestions for you, and the first one might come as a surprise. I would say that the easiest and potentially most effective way of starting design thinking work within your organization is to just do it. Don't ask for blessing from senior management, don't make a big fuss about doing something different. Instead, just start a project off with a one or two week design thinking workshop. I've helped teams at several organizations do this and now they're gaining converts to the design thinking approach. Their successes speak for themselves. Rather than trying to justify the design thinking process upfront, they can now use the example of their own projects to show how successful it's been for them. As the rest of the organization starts hearing what design thinking can do, either…

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