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The Innovation Imperative: Not Without Design
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Hardin, Dianne
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Year and Degree
2014, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Abstract
Today, the business-led conversation about integrating and leveraging “design thinking” is growing in popularity and influence. More and more examples of successful design-centric companies are being publicized, and senior leadership teams are increasingly being challenged to build design-driven organizations. This is a complex challenge; one that impacts every area of an organization including the structure, talent strategies, core skills and competencies, and measurement infrastructures. This thesis examines the questions: What is innovation, and why is it an imperative? What is design, how does it work, and why does it matter, and how does design intersect with innovation? What is a design-driven organization, and how do you create one? I develop The Sempathy Continuum Model as a model for assessing an organization’s design capabilities, and consider whether today’s design and MBA graduate programs meet the emerging demand for a new style of graduate.
Committee
Craig Vogel, M.I.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael Westcott, B.I.D. (Committee Member)
William Boyd, M.B.A. (Committee Member)
Pages
90 p.
Subject Headings
Design
Keywords
design
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innovation
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design driven organization
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Sempathy Continuum Model
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design value
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design education
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Hardin, D. (2014).
The Innovation Imperative: Not Without Design
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397233924
APA Style (7th edition)
Hardin, Dianne.
The Innovation Imperative: Not Without Design.
2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397233924.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Hardin, Dianne. "The Innovation Imperative: Not Without Design." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397233924
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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The Innovation Imperative: Not Without Design by Dianne Hardin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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