Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover lifestyle, art, and interior design. In the counterculture movement of the 1960s, a time teeming with new ways of thinking ...

More than a decade ago, Scott Cook decided that the company he founded, the accounting software firm Intuit, needed to become more innovative. So he started to encourage all employees to spend 10% of ...

Do you know what design thinking is? Your answer to that question will depend largely on where you sit. Design thinking is often centrally associated with the fabled design and consulting firm IDEO, ...

The design thinking process is a two-pronged approach that involves both empathetic ideology and a process that aims to find the best possible solution for gaps in the market or problems in a given ...

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 ...

This clear, organized process can help teams break free of a variety of human tendencies that get in the way of innovation. For business leaders, the struggle between efficiency and innovation is ...

However, design thinking has caused me to look at things in a different way: numbers are only valuable in the context of a story, facts change, and there are very few things that are absolute truths.

Love it or hate it, many teachers have seen just how much technology has changed the landscape of education. Within this rapidly changing landscape, teachers have taken on a role much different from ...

Yamini is the Founder of Celebrus Business Strategies, advisor to senior leaders on business growth and author of "The Sales Accelerator." I was exalted at landing my first sales appointment. I ...

Are you a creative or inventive person? Or would you like to be? Would you like to harness your creativity to solve problems for your company or for society? Would you like to add design-driven ...