Modern businesses and organizations are constantly confronted with the need for transformation. Whether it's adapting to emerging technologies, responding to market shifts or navigating unprecedented ...

The term "systems thinking" refers to a management and operations approach where single business decisions are analyzed based on the systematic consequences they have. If a company invests in a new ...

Design thinking is gaining a prominent place in institutions, public spaces and organisations. It is now influencing everyone, from individuals to large systems. This raises a key question: what is ...

Design thinking is a problem-solving process that encourages us to rethink the world and how people connect through products, systems or institutions. Leading brands globally use design thinking to ...

I was a second-year medical school student when I encountered my first patient with GRID — gay-related immune deficiency. The year was 1982, and the disease that would soon be called AIDS was an ...

MSc Systems Design Management is an interdisciplinary programme which sits at the interface of business, design, and engineering, which will provide you with the necessary skills to design and develop ...

Serendipity led Northwestern Engineering’s Marco Nie into transportation research. Purpose, however, has fueled his ongoing commitment to the deeply interdisciplinary field, which holds far-reaching ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preparedness used to be framed almost entirely around emergencies. It meant having supplies stored away for rare events and assuming that disruptions were temporary exceptions to an otherwise stable ...

Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...