Adopt Design Thinking in Your Organization | Info-Tech Research Group

End users often have a disjointed experience while interacting with your organization in using its products and services.
You have been asked by your senior leadership to start a new or revive an existing design or innovation function within your organization. However, your organization has dismissed design thinking as the latest “management fad” and does not buy into the depth and rigor that design thinking brings.
The design or innovation function lives on the fringes of your organization due to its apathy towards design thinking or tumultuous internal politics.
You, as a CIO, want to improve the user satisfaction with the IT services your team provides to both internal and external users.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

A user’s perspective while interacting with the products and services is very different from the organization’s internal perspective while implementing and provisioning those. A design-based organization balances the two perspectives to drive user-satisfaction over end-to-end journeys.
Top management must have a design thinker – the guardian angel of the balance between exploration (i.e. discovering new business models) and exploitation (i.e. leveraging existing business models).
Your approach to adopt design thinking must consider your organization’s specific goals and culture. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach.

Impact and Result

User satisfaction, with the end-to-end journeys orchestrated by your organization, will significantly increase.
Design-centric organizations enjoy disproportionate financial rewards.

Adopt Design Thinking in Your Organization Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should adopt design thinking in your organization, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Adopt Design Thinking in Your Organization – Executive Brief

1. What is design thinking?

The focus of this phase is on revealing what designers do during the activity of designing, and on building an understanding of the nature of design ability. We will formally examine the many definitions of design thinking from experts in this field. At the core of this phase are several case studies that illuminate the various aspects of design thinking.

2. How does an organization benefit from design thinking?

This phase will illustrate the relevance of design in strategy formulation and in service-design. At the core of this phase are several case studies that illuminate these aspects of design thinking. We will also identify the trends impacting your organization and establish a baseline of user-experience with the journeys orchestrated by your organization.

3. How do you build a design organization?

The focus of this phase is to:

Measure the design-centricity of your organization and subsequently, identify the areas for improvement.
Define an approach for a design program that suites your organization’s specific goals and culture.

Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

Client

Experience

Impact

$ Saved

Days Saved

Testimonial

Holy Name Medical Center

Workshop

10/10

N/A

N/A

A small group of associates from our hospital attended the Design Thinking workshop over the course of 4 days. This workshop was an extremely valua... Read More

City of Hope

Workshop

9/10

$6,800

10

I really enjoyed the facilitation from the hosts and appreciated the templates provided to accelerate our internal documentation work.

City of Mesa, AZ

Guided Implementation

8/10

N/A

32

This guidance was invaluable for helping to guide our development of an innovation center of excellence

North Carolina Department of Information Technology

Guided Implementation

10/10

$40,800

10

City Of Chesapeake

Guided Implementation

10/10

$13,600

5

The tool was nice to have and made it where I did not have to go out and search for a design thinking survey. It is going to be hard to determine ... Read More

MCAP Service Corporation

Guided Implementation

9/10

$2,000

5

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