In "The Achievement Habit," Stanford engineering professor Bernard Roth explains how design thinking can help you get to the root of any problem — and solve it.

When grappling with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the students in a seventh-grade science classroom in northern New Jersey wrestled with a question: How do we ensure that all community ...

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Most businesses struggle with innovation, not because they lack ideas, but because they lack a clear and effective process. Great ideas don’t emerge in a vacuum. They require structure, iteration, and ...

In 25 years of experience as a senior executive, I've seen many leaders struggle to develop an effective and comprehensive strategy. Whether it’s because of short-term pressures, fear of risk, denial ...

The phases of design thinking aren’t a linear sequence of events. You might find yourself returning to phases multiple times throughout a project. The phases of design thinking are designed to be ...

We applied step-by-step thinking to every process: training staff, defining response times, and setting clear customer expectations. Instead of scaling too quickly, we focused on getting each stage ...