Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems
Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link, Larry Leifer

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#Products
The Design Thinking Playbook is an actionable guide to the future of business. By stepping back and questioning the current mindset, the faults of the status quo stand out in stark relief―and this guide gives you the tools and frameworks you need to kick off a digital transformation. Design Thinking is about approaching things differently with a strong user orientation and fast iterations with multidisciplinary teams to solve wicked problems. It is equally applicable to (re-)design products, services, processes, business models, and ecosystems. It inspires radical innovation as a matter of course, and ignites capabilities beyond mere potential. Unmatched as a source of competitive advantage, Design Thinking is the driving force behind those who will lead industries through transformations and evolutions.
This book describes how Design Thinking is applied across a variety of industries, enriched with other proven approaches as well as the necessary tools, and the knowledge to use them effectively. Packed with solutions for common challenges including digital transformation, this practical, highly visual discussion shows you how Design Thinking fits into agile methods within management, innovation, and startups.
Practical frameworks, real-world solutions, and radical innovation wrapped in a whole new outlook give you the power to mindfully lead to new heights. From systems and operations to people, projects, culture, digitalization, and beyond, this invaluable mind shift paves the way for organizations―and individuals―to do great things. When you're ready to give your organization a big step forward, The Design Thinking Playbook is your practical guide to a more innovative future.
Table of Contents
1. Understand Design Thinking
1.1 What needs are addressed in the Playbook?
1.2 Why is process awareness key?
1.3 How to get a good problem statement
1.4 How to discover user needs
1.5 How to build empathy with the user
1.6 How to find the right focus
1.7 How to generate ideas
1.8 How to structure and select ideas
1.9 How to create a good prototype
1.10 How to test efficiently
2. Transform Organizations
2.1 How to design a creative space and environment
2.2 What are the benefits of interdisciplinary teams?
2.3 How to visualize ideas and stories
2.4 How to design a good story
2.5 How to trigger change as a facilitator
3. Design the Future
3.1 Why systems thinking helps to understand complexity
3.2 How to apply lean business model thinking
3.3 Why business ecosystem design becomes the ultimate lever
3.4 How to bring it home
3.5 Why some design criteria will change in the digital paradigm
3.6 How to kick-start digital transformation
3.7 How artificial intelligence creates a personalized customer experience
3.8 How to combine design thinking and data analytics to spur agility
Michael Lewrick, PhD, is an international speaker and teaches design thinking as a visiting professor at various universities, and author of Design Thinking: Radical Innovations in a Digitized World.
Patrick Link, PhD, is Professor of Product Innovation and Chair of Industrial Engineering at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. He is intensively involved in the development of agile methods in product management, design thinking and lean start-ups.
Larry Leifer, PhD, is one of the founders of Design Thinking, and teaches in the d.school at Stanford University, where he is Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design. He is the Founding Director of the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford.









