Design Thinking Complete Self Assessment Guide

Author : Gerardus Blokdyk
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781973861409
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Design Thinking Complete Self-Assessment Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are your current levels and trends in key measures or indicators of Design Thinking product and process performance that are important to and directly serve your customers? how do these results compare with the performance of your competi tors and other organizations with similar offerings? What tools are in your design thinking toolkit? Are there any constraints known that bear on the ability to perform Design Thinking work? How is the team addressing them? How can we incorporate support to ensure safe and effective use of Design Thinking into the services that we provide? Does Design Thinking analysis show the relationships among important Design Thinking factors? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better. This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Design Thinking assessment. All the tools you need to an in-depth Design Thinking Self-Assessment. Featuring 374 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Design Thinking improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Design Thinking projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Design Thinking and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Design Thinking Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Design Thinking areas need attention. Included with your purchase of the book is the Design Thinking Self-Assessment downloadable resource, which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book in a ready to use Excel dashboard, including the self-assessment, graphic insights, and project planning automation - all with examples to get you started with the assessment right away. Access instructions can be found in the book. You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help.