TY - JOUR
T1 - The need for design thinking in business schools
AU - Glen, Roy
AU - Suciu, Christy
AU - Baughn, Christopher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2014.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - The demands placed on today's organizations and their managers suggest that we have to develop pedagogies combining analytic reasoning with a more exploratory skill set that design practitioners have embraced and business schools have traditionally neglected. Design thinking is an iterative, exploratory process involving visualizing, experimenting, creating, and prototyping of models, and gathering feedback. It is a particularly apt method for addressing innovation and messy, ill-structured situations. We discuss key characteristics of design thinking, link design-thinking characteristics to recent studies of cognition, and note how the repertoire of skills and methods that embody design thinking can address deficits in business school education.
AB - The demands placed on today's organizations and their managers suggest that we have to develop pedagogies combining analytic reasoning with a more exploratory skill set that design practitioners have embraced and business schools have traditionally neglected. Design thinking is an iterative, exploratory process involving visualizing, experimenting, creating, and prototyping of models, and gathering feedback. It is a particularly apt method for addressing innovation and messy, ill-structured situations. We discuss key characteristics of design thinking, link design-thinking characteristics to recent studies of cognition, and note how the repertoire of skills and methods that embody design thinking can address deficits in business school education.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84919971173&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5465/amle.2012.0308
DO - 10.5465/amle.2012.0308
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84919971173
SN - 1537-260X
VL - 13
SP - 653
EP - 667
JO - Academy of Management Learning and Education
JF - Academy of Management Learning and Education
IS - 4
ER -