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Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

Strategy Driven

Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone seeks to assist in addressing a full spectrum of challenges from the most vexing to the everyday—whether you work in a design field or not. The most creative and productive way [to apply design thinking] is to engage people—the [stakeholders]—in the process.

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CEOs Must Engage All Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator.

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Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT

Harvard Business Review

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. Information & technology Marketing'

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Financial Rewards Make People Suggest Fewer but Better Ideas

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one large Asian information technology services company decided to run an experiment to see if rewards could actually improve and encourage employee ideas. “This was quite exciting as most research on creativity is field research based on interviews, and is done by psychologists,” said Gibbs.

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Why Peter Drucker’s Writing Still Feels So Relevant

Harvard Business Review

In an era of rapid technological and social change, in which new management jargons seem to rise even faster than the disruptive startups that coin them, the career of Peter Drucker is perhaps as instructive as his writings themselves. Drucker’s book, Management Challenges for the 21 st Century , is an example.

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A Role for Specialists in Resuscitating Accountable Care Organizations

Harvard Business Review

As primary-care-based ACOs, or for that matter any health care organizations operating under global-risk contracts, begin to form around the country, they must address the challenge of managing the cost of specialty care through a combination of disease prevention and reduction of specialist utilization.

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How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

Harvard Business Review

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. Over the past three decades, we have researched how leaders motivate their employees to come up with creative solutions to organizational problems.