MGMT20140 Term 2 2018: Design Mindset's Role in Innovation Poster

This assignment is a poster presentation that explores the concept of a 'design mindset' within the context of innovation. It highlights design mindset as a skill that enhances workplace productivity and aids in solving complex problems, identifying the most appropriate solutions through stages like empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing. The poster emphasizes that design mindset facilitates a better understanding of customer demands and promotes creative solution generation, accelerating knowledge acquisition. It positions design mindset as a key aspect in the innovation process, shifting the focus from engineering-driven to design-driven approaches. The poster is supported by academic references and aims to visually communicate the literature research conducted for the assignment.

“Design Mindset in context to innovation”
Meaning of
Design
Mindset
Design mindset is considered as a skill that helps
to enhance the productivity also in the workplace.
It assist in solving complex problems and also
search for the most appropriate solutions (Grace &
Graen, 2014).
Design mindset
process
• Empathize : focuses on the audience
• Define: point of view are considered
based on the need of the users.
• Ideate : consider creative solutions.
• Prototype: construct the ideas.
• Test : Evaluation of the ideas
(Zhao,2016).
Design mindset in
innovation
In the process of
innovation design
mindset is one of the
famous aspect.
Innovation has moved
from engineering driven
to design driven
(Ryan,2014).
Advantages of design
mindset in context to
innovator
Through this it can be simple
to analyze the demand of the
customers and also it
generate creative solution
(Carlgren, Elmqvist & Rauth,
2016). It helps in learning or
acquiring the knowledge fast
(Van Der Pijl, Lokitz &
Solomon, 2016).
References
•Grace, M., & Graen, G. B. (Eds.). (2014). Millennial spring: Designing the future of organizations. IAP.
•Ryan, A. (2014). A framework for systemic design. FormAkademisk-Research Journal of Design and Design Education, 7(4).
•Van Der Pijl, P., Lokitz, J., & Solomon, L. K. (2016). Design a better business: New tools, skills, and mindset for strategy and
innovation. John Wiley & Sons.
•Zhao, Y. (2016). Entrepreneurial mindset. Education for Sustainable Happiness and Well Being, Routledge: New York, 66-84.
•Carlgren, L., Elmqvist, M., & Rauth, I. (2016). Exploring the use of design thinking in large organizations: Towards a research
agenda. Swedish design research journal, 11(1), 55-63.

• Grace, M., & Graen, G. B. (Eds.).
(2014). Millennial spring: Designing
the future of organizations. IAP.
• Ryan, A. (2014). A framework for systemic
design. FormAkademisk-Research
Journal of Design and Design
Education, 7(4).
• Van Der Pijl, P., Lokitz, J., & Solomon, L.
K. (2016). Design a better business:
New tools, skills, and mindset for
strategy and innovation. John Wiley
& Sons.
• Zhao, Y. (2016). Entrepreneurial
mindset. Education for Sustainable
Happiness and Well Being,
Routledge: New York, 66-84.
• Carlgren, L., Elmqvist, M., & Rauth, I.
(2016). Exploring the use of design
thinking in large organizations: Towards a
research agenda. Swedish design
research journal, 11(1), 55-63.