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In today’s competitive landscape, businesses need every edge they can get. Embracing AI-powered design thinking can be your secret weapon, helping you innovate faster, understand your customers better ...

In recent years, more and more technology teams have opted to leverage design-thinking principles when building new software and tools. With a heavy emphasis on empathy and creativity, the multistep ...

Most businesses struggle with innovation, not because they lack ideas, but because they lack a clear and effective process. Great ideas don’t emerge in a vacuum. They require structure, iteration, and ...

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 ...

As AI tools become increasingly embedded in K-12 education, they offer personalized learning, real-time feedback, and access to information at unprecedented speed. However, alongside these benefits ...

Strategic planning. Those two words receive forced association. I would like to introduce the notion that we evaluate three words: thinking, planning, and strategy. When we evaluate these three words ...

I used to teach a Master’s-level class in critical thinking and leadership, and I would start with the question, "What is good leadership all about?" There would be a noticeable pause for a while, ...

The 21st century has seen the immense rise of teams in the workplace. It’s an obvious solution to handle the complex and fast-moving challenges we’re facing today; there simply are few problems we can ...