Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship: A Review

Running Head: DESIGN IT
Design It

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Executive summary
The main aim of this report is to critically present the self-analysis of design thinking and
entrepreneurship. Additionally, personal development part identifies activities that will
support to improve understanding regarding the specified area, improve skills, develop
human capital for employability, and improve the standard of life systematically. Further, the
knowledge development section supports to improve the understanding about research area in
an appropriate way. Moreover, the SWOT analysis determines the personal strength as well
as personal weaknesses. Besides this, the action plan is helpful to improve the weakness
successfully.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Critically self-analysis of design thinking and entrepreneurship activity..................................4
Personal Development...............................................................................................................6
Knowledge management............................................................................................................7
SWOT (Personal strength and weakness)................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
Action Plan for improving my skills........................................................................................11
Action plan to improve lack of Patience..............................................................................11
Action plan to improve confidence level..............................................................................12
References................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
This report presents the critical self-analysis of design thinking and entrepreneurship activity.
It also presents the way of personal development in a systematic way. Additionally, it also
shows the critical analysis of knowledge development. It presents the SWOT analysis to
identify personal strength and weakness. Further, an action plan to overcome a weakness also
discusses in this report.
Critically self-analysis of design thinking and entrepreneurship activity
In a first and second week, I gained my understating about tutors as well as my unit that is
“Design it”. Additionally, I also improved my knowledge towards the introduction, key
theories, and concepts of innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking process. In
addition, I also enhanced my knowledge regarding the small and medium-sized enterprises
(see blog #1, July 12, 2017). I was from an engineering background so it was totally different
from my qualification. Along with this, my tutor was very supportive and she explained each
topic in an appropriate manner that is helpful for all students who presented in the class
(Tarone, et al., 2013).
In addition, I developed my understanding about the significance as well as process of
innovation in blog. There are four steps such as search, select, implement, and capture are
considered in the process of innovation. I also learned about the aspects of innovation named
incremental innovation versus radical innovation, architecture innovation, Discontinuous
innovation, and Platform innovation. I also increased my knowledge regarding the
dimensions of innovation space named product, process, position, and paradigm. In addition
to this, I improved my knowledge regarding the innovation flow that was also a significant
factor for blog. My tutors explained about the role of entrepreneurship in current period as
well as provide depth information about the design thinking process (Best, 2016).