Disrupting and Design Thinking Education: New Technology, Designs, and Business Models
Routledge
October 02, 2024
This book takes a design-thinking and disruption perspective on the future of education. Beginning with shocking statistics on cost, time, and lengthy debt repayment, it presents a clear case for disruption in the education sector. It continues by examining future skills in the age of AI, machine learning, and robotics. In this new age, businesses need a new kind of workforce, and workers need to equip themselves to survive and thrive. Drawing upon tools and techniques from disruption and design-thinking, Meadows puts forward new frameworks of education, business, and technology -- all with examples of educators (and learners) already doing it today.
This book provides rigorous thinking and practical guidance for professionals in the education industry and budding education entrepreneurs, as well as homeschooling parents.
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Tags: Design Thinking, Digital Disruption, Education
Sustainable Business
De Gruyter
September 18, 2023
How do you save an endangered species without saving its environment and providing economic opportunities for people who live there? You don’t. Thus began the journey of one leadership team on the edge of a Project Tiger reserve in India. This book presents their story, business growth, “Golden Triangle” eco-development model, facts and figures, engaging “how-it-happened” vignettes, lessons learned, and results. Scalable implications are provided for economic and ecological development worldwide.
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Tags: CSR, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability
The Design Thinking Workbook
Emerald
October 19, 2022
Design Thinking (DT) is a powerful approach to business growth and problem-solving. A creative method popular in corporate innovation and start-ups alike, it helps us craft fresh, new solutions for today’s challenges and develop underlying skills in high demand for tomorrow’s economy: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, empathy, insight, experimentation, and more.
Anyone can be a Design Thinker and benefit from the approach, whether in business, government, education, social entrepreneurship, and beyond. Leaders need the approach for crafting new offerings, organizations, and digital transformation. Everyone can use DT to solve problems, develop creativity, and design new solutions that make life easier and businesses more productive. Innovation centres, R&D departments, HR, and product development teams can use the approach to reduce risk and craft fresh, new products, services, and experiences people really want.
Following years of Design Thinking practice and research, the authors found that DT skills-development is far more effective when learners begin with certain foundational skills before moving on to the DT process and techniques. This book guides readers through the developmental process and provides stories, tools, methodology, and exercises for immediate real-life application. A sample workshop agenda, course structure, and online resources are provided, as well as community platform. The multimedia approach is experiential, exercise-driven, and visual, to awaken that part of the brain that draws, designs, and dreams.
We hope you find this book a fun, challenging, enlightening, inspiring, engaging, and most of all useful way to find needs, develop solutions, grow your skills, and build the future!
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Tags: Design Thinking, Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Famous Business Fusions
De Gruyter
August 18, 2021
Where do startup founders and product developers get radical, high-value ideas? This book presents innovation behind-the-scenes stories from companies such as Apple, Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Google, P&G, Uber, and more. It reveals where the ideas came from and provides guidance on how you, too, can combine unlikely ideas to create new offerings and startup ventures by integrating industries, fields, technologies, and people.
Famous Business Fusions discusses how an idea from one place, transported somewhere new, can lead to radically creative innovation. The book is replete with stories of lateral thinking or "fusion" that inspire you to think bigger, discover deeper insights, sense real opportunities and craft high-value fusion.
This book is essential reading for those interested in new inventions, innovation and entrepreneurship; business leaders and consultants involved in innovation and new product or service development; and academics seeking material on business innovation and startups.
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Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Innovation through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High Impact Solutions
De Gruyter
January 01, 2020
Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy from combining two nuclei, a fusion in business, technology, and the arts can release massive value—creating whole new companies, industries, and human capabilities. Examples of the fusion technique for high-value, radical innovation are presented in this unique collection of stories about innovating across industries, fields, organizational silos, nations, social class, and more. This book is the result of a global research study of 30 world-class innovators who have collectively created billions of dollars’ worth of business value, as well as new advances in the arts and sciences that bring joy to the world and can save millions of lives. Insights from the journeys of the innovators provided in this book will help leaders, organizations, and individuals succeed in their innovative endeavors. In addition, each chapter provides a link to a short video that provides further insights, mostly from the innovators themselves.
Innovation through Fusion is essential reading for individual innovators who would like to create the future; teams and organizations that need to craft radical or high-value innovations (especially across industries or organizational silos); and leaders concerned about declining returns on innovation efforts and uncertain about organizational survival in a disruptive world. The author provides a new model of lateral innovation—useful both as an innovation process and as a framework to assess your lateral innovation capabilities. The book is replete with value-creation examples of lives saved, billions of dollars of savings/growth, and new products, services, and companies, as well as stories of leading lateral innovators—who they are and how they succeeded.
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Tags: Innovation