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Design Thinking Live

Overview

Experience reports from the field

The book “Design Thinking Live” offers you authentic experience reports from friends and partners of the HPI School of Design Thinking and the HPI Academy. Speakers from research and industry worldwide as well as graduates of the D-School share their practical experiences with Design Thinking.

You will learn how the innovation approach is applied in different contexts and why real innovation is often more successful and easier to achieve with Design Thinking. The examples will show you how you can use design thinking in your own working environment to find creative solutions to complex problems.

This book is particularly valuable if you are looking for concrete use cases and want to learn from the experiences of others. It combines theoretical knowledge with practical application and helps you to better understand and implement Design Thinking.

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Contact

Do you have any questions? We will be happy to help you.

Prof. Ulrich Weinberg
Design Thinking ambassador and founding director HPI d-school (external)
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