B-school students get some d-schooling
Submitted by GlimmerGuy on 01/11/2010 – 12:10 pmOne Comment
Nice recent business article by Lane Wallace in the New York Times featuring one of the Glimmerati, Roger Martin, dean of Toronto’s Rotman School. In Glimmer, I talk about Roger’s theories on integrative thinking, which is about how we can sort through conflicting ideas and come up with solutions based on the best parts of those differing ideas.
The Times article talks about how business schools are starting to understand the importance of this kind of open-minded critical thinking. The article actually downplays the term “design thinking” (it’s not mentioned until near the end of the piece), but that’s basically what the whole conversation is about—the extent to which a designer’s way of thinking about problems is relevant to business students. It’s interesting watching these ideas make their way into the mainstream.
By the way, I want to give props to the folks at Rotman who were very helpful to me in producing Glimmer and allowing me to present the book’s ideas to students there in November. Thanks for the support.
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It is a great idea to have Integrated Thinking. Business and Engineering students need to be schooled in Design Thinking as much as Designers need to be schooled in Statistics and Business.
It is naive to think we can change the world only with Design Thinking. We cannot have one without the other. We need to bring in all professions together and change the world by having them use best practices. Design Thinking will have to be dynamic and change with the times.
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