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Report on the Use of Personal Experiences

   

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EntrepreneurshipProfessional DevelopmentDesign and Creativity
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Running Head: DESIGN IT1Design ITStudent’s Name Institution
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DESIGN IT2Design ITA reflective report is a report which involves the use of personal experiences as a consideration when describing the context or meaning of a specific theme or topic. In the past semester in class I have been able to learn a lot in respect to myself, the coursework I engaged in and learnt while undertaking the class. Design thinking is the utilization of creative strategies while working or implementing a project to ensure that it something that is very innovative and will be of benefit to its users. Entrepreneurship is the process of identifying a need and designinga solution which will solve or fulfill the need and making the whole endeavor a business (Brush et al, 2003). In this paper I will be able to display my thought process and how I perceived various experiences during the time we pursued this unit. Design thinking is a way in which individuals can view issues or problems so that they are able to come up with very innovative ideas to resolve these issues (Brown, 2008). The designthinking process is a new way of helping individuals solve problems in a more efficient way. It can be used in various fields since problems span to all disciplines and the utilization of design thinking can help in resolving of these issues. In business, design thinking is used by professionals by matching the necessary and appropriate technology available to the needs of the people or their clients. In design thinking the business professional is tasked with fulfilling the needs of his or her clients while by coming up with a viable business strategy which can become a market opportunity and bring their clients value. Design thinking takes a practical approach by trying to come up with a creative way of solving problems (Beinecke, 2009). It is referred to as asolution based approach since the purpose of it is to provide or come up with a result which is constructive and beneficial. Design thinking is different compared to the scientific method of
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DESIGN IT3solving problems because it considers feedback of the sample population by incorporating their emotional state which the scientific method does not. Critical self-analysis is the careful consideration of all facts given to an individual and analyzing them to come up with a feasible and viable solution. Based on what we have been able to learn this semester my approach to various issues now incorporates a lot of critical self-analysis. As I approach any task I try to define what kind of solution can be obtained which is viable and feasible by use of the design thinking process. During my time this semester I embarked on solving a problem which I realized faced some of my fellow students. I was able to critically analyze the situation and discovered that there are a lot of people who are not able to get to their respective classes since there is not synced reminder or system which can ease their problem. I decided to embark on this journey in trying to solve this problem for my fellow classmates (Zhang & Cuete, 2015). Most of my classmates used to miss their lecturers because they simply had not set reminders on their devices. I had also fallen into this problem once in a while when I was overwhelmed with a lot of work. The tedious task of setting up reminders for every lecture an individual is supposed to attend in a day was very boring and most students simply did not do it. They missed classes a lot and this affected their academic performance. Some of my classmates had no idea that they had such a problem because they had become accustomed to managing by themselves using normal printed timetables. As I suggested my idea to them they were amazed that such a solution could be developed to solve a problem which theydid not think they had in the first place. Design thinking was a process I used in trying to come up with a solution which would solve the problem in which my classmates were being faced with. Design thinking utilized a divergent thinking approach. This means that when you utilize design thinking in your operations you care able to identify and explore many possible solutions
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