The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Candice Georgiadis Design ...

"Design thinking," which is gaining traction in the business sector, is about allowing even the most traditional thinker to create fresh, inventive solutions to business challenges by leveraging an ...

It is interesting to see how design thinking and coaching, two seemingly unrelated practice areas, have so much in common. Design thinking is an iterative process that attempts to understand the user ...

“In a design paradigm. . .the solution is not locked away somewhere waiting to be discovered but lies in the creative work of the team. The creative process generates ideas and concepts that have not ...

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 ...