This Thanksgiving, “Nearly one in three people in the world (2.37 billion) did not have access to adequate food in 2020 – that’s an increase of almost 320 million people in just one year,” wrote the ...

CHICAGO — The innovation team at Mars Wrigley’s headquarters in Chicago has been using the “design thinking” process for about the past seven years to drive value in its brands. How the company uses ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

Kurt R. Richter receives funding from the United States Agency for International Development. Bill Heinrich receives funding from USAID. Many African higher education institutions are under tremendous ...

In recent years, more and more technology teams have opted to leverage design-thinking principles when building new software and tools. With a heavy emphasis on empathy and creativity, the multistep ...

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 ...

Design thinking provides a holistic approach to the development of new products and processes, emphasizing the creative, interdisciplinary synthesis of new systems that can lead to solutions for real ...