Opportunity, Creativity, Discovery, Design: University Business Report

This report delves into the principles and applications of design thinking, exploring its role in fostering creativity, discovering opportunities, and driving innovation in various contexts, including business and organizational design. The report examines the evolution of design thinking beyond traditional applications, emphasizing its relevance in addressing complex projects and environments. It outlines the core principles of design thinking, such as user-centered approaches, collaborative methods, and iterative processes, and discusses how these principles are applied to solve complex situations. Furthermore, the report analyzes the critical role of creative decision-making and innovative solutions, highlighting the importance of collaboration and multidisciplinary approaches in achieving desired outcomes. The report also explores the successful integration of design thinking within organizational systems, emphasizing the need for strategic alignment and systematic thinking to effectively implement design outcomes. Additionally, the report analyzes a case study of Apple, discussing how the company can leverage its strengths in creative design to expand its distribution network, launch new products, and address competitive threats. Finally, the report examines the importance of tools, methodologies, and strategies for incorporating design thinking to foster growth and innovation within organizations.

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Part 1
Answer 1
The design thinking industry has been extended beyond the common practice of
including the design for and of hospitals, healthcare, government policies and organizations.
The tools, theories and methods applied in this unit are relevant to the case study. Recent
trends of utilizing the approach of design thinking are a crucial shift towards design for the
complex projects as well as their environments. It is an approach of problem solving
fundamental to the design practice, which emphasizes on the user, collaborative methods and
visuals through an iterative, multidisciplinary and adaptive process. Recent design thinking
draws examples from the highly complex and large scale practices of the organization. One
could preserve the design thinking approach for a new context (Oppezzo and Schwartz 2014).
Answer 2
The principles of design are the objectives and overarching philosophies which are
outlined as building a distributed understanding of the intent, taking the approach which is
user centered, making an emerging design which is visible early, working collaboratively in
terms of interdisciplinary, creating a logical blueprint for any changes and following a
flexible yet disciplined process. The application of the methods, tools and theories is done to
solve the highly complex situations. Organizations have adopted innovative methods of
implementing the methods wherever accessible. Practitioners and scholars have turner to the
design thinking for an innovative advantage, in this competitive environment of policy design
and public service. The methodology of design thinking is rigid; however, with certain
innovative measures it can be adaptive as well as fluid (Amadeu 2012).

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Answer 3
The most crucial point of the creative decision analysis and making an innovative
decision is achieving the desired outcome. The decision making quality can be only evaluated
in the situation, when the ideas are creative and innovative. Firstly, the design development
stages, blueprinting, intent and emphasizing on the idealistic and intangible design goals,
which affects the outcome. Secondly, the facilitators of design take a passive role for getting
the desired results. Thirdly, the design thinking emphasizes on the collaboration, which in
turn encourages the co responsibility on the outcome of the design. The design thinking
approach is not only gained as designers, rather it can be enabled through multidisciplinary
collaboration via design methodology. Therefore, the design thinking helps in providing more
innovative and modern solutions (Budge, Beale and Lynas 2013).
Answer 4
Design thinking is successful in the complex environments only if it is successfully
implemented outside the system. The design systems, services and products must be
integrated within the organizational tax system which exists. Effective implementation of the
organizational design system relies on the integration. Strategic and systematic thinking
requires full alignment with the design thinking, to gain a clear understanding of how to
implement the design outcomes, in the existing organizational systems. Designing at the
complexity levels is not only about handling the problems but also using an approach of
unique and creative designing. Integration is regarding compromise and negotiation as it
involves swapping between the competitive requirements of user’s experience and
maintaining a consistency with recent revenue system (Burleson and Tripathi 2013).
Answer 5
They could be applied in moving beyond the case as designs are being evaluated
before implementation. They are examined as well based on the meeting of original intent.

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This proves to be a crucial factor in the whole design process, as the whole intent serves as an
important measure of evaluating the investment returns as well as adopting a design process.
When the final outcome is user tested as well as approved, they are passed for
implementation. Therefore, at this juncture the project passes from the designers’ hands to the
business team. A review of post implementation is undertaken after all the designs are
implemented. This method of reviewing post implementation is being conducted by the
business department and usually doesn’t involve core design department, who was
responsible for designing the solution (Oppezzo and Schwartz 2014).
Part 2
Design thinking helps in drawing imagination, systematic reasoning, intuition and
logic for exploring the possibilities. It helps in creating the desired outcomes for the benefit
of the end user or customer. A creative mind set is solution focused as well as action oriented.
It includes both imagination and analysis. It is linked to the improved future as it seeks in
generating new ideas, unlike the critical thinking which shatters them. It helps in providing
information to the human centered innovation, as it begins by creating an understanding of
the users’ or customers’ unsatisfied needs or desires. Design thinking is effective and
efficient as it promotes a collaborative approach. It helps in bringing in people from various
parts of the company together, because of their different knowledge, expertise, experiences
and solves a problem (Designthinkingmovie 2017).
The creative design thinking approach minimizes the uncertainty or risk of the
innovative measures. It develops the collective thinking approach via series of frames in
order to gain an understanding of the consumer desires or needs. Through engaging with the
users or the customers actively, it helps in understanding the growing intimacy and
uncovering the needs and requirements. Design thinkers totally rely on the customer insights

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which are gained from the real world experiments as well as directly engaging market
research. On considering the case study of Apple, the company can use its strengths of
creative designing in order to expand its network of distribution. The company can even use
its strong brand image for the rapid processes of innovation. It can successfully launch and
develop its new lines of products as it has strong brand recognition. Threats from aggressive
competitors are the major issues, which affects the players of the industry. Therefore, a strong
agenda must be set up and suitable actions are to be taken in order to address the existing
threats of the market. Continuous innovation and launching new products will also help the
company to tackle the competitors. New marketing techniques must be employed in order to
gain more consumers’ appreciation and attain their loyalty (Cup.columbia.edu 2017).
The company has an opportunity in expanding their networking unit of distribution.
The company has a very limited network distribution; therefore, it should work and take the
opportunity in consideration. It needs to change the entire strategy of distribution and
implement new ones, which will in turn prove the company’s efficiency and effectiveness.
This will be very beneficial for the company’s growth and progress. Expanded network
distribution can help the company reach new customers in this globalised world. Moreover,
they should also focus on the new lines of products, as its existing product lines are greatly
successful. Hence, further innovation should include launching of new products, which in
turn will help in supporting the growth and progress of the industry. The company has
opportunities in this field for their further growth, despite of the increasing competition in the
global market (Gielnik et al. 2012).
Apple’s supply chain management has provided the company with flexibility for
meeting the fluctuating demand, as ninety percent parts of Apple’s iphone were being
manufactured overseas. Offshore outsourcing however, helped in reducing operation costs of
Apple, but it decreased the company’s control as well as monitoring over the manufacturing

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practices and processes. Due to the absence of monitoring, the work procedures of suppliers
and employees were very difficult to look after. It also hampered the corporate social
responsibilities of the company. With different stakeholders and expectations, it became
difficult to manage the consumers’ demands and satisfaction. It also became hard to manage
the buyer and supplier relationship which hampered the company’s progress. Moreover,
challenges arose when differences in the organization’s procedures, questioned its objectives.
Therefore, the company needs to set a perfect business agenda, in order to manage its supply
chain management system (Howe, Davies and Ritchie 2013).
Apple can also take some major steps regarding its corporate social responsibility
challenges, which are being faced in the company’s supply chain. The company is even
working on their issues in order to improve their working conditions and procedures. It is
engaging more in monitoring and tracking activities, in order to keep a track on the offshore
operations. To regain the control, the company is focusing more on bringing its
manufacturing units back to United States. Furthermore, they are trying to stress on
robotization and automation in future. They would like to engage in more CSR activities in
order to improve their customer base and attain their loyalty (Jenkin et al. 2013).
In order to succeed in harnessing the power of thinking regarding the creative design,
one should try out new tools for design thinking. One needs to manage the project’s growth
itself. One is gathering huge amounts of information and deals with uncertainty and
ambiguity, working with the internal as well as internal partners. With these new and
innovative tools as well as data, any company can flourish. Effective and efficient
implementation of the organizational design system relies on the integration. Strategic and
systematic thinking requires full alignment with the design thinking, to gain a clear
understanding of how to implement the design outcomes, in the existing organizational
systems. Designing at the complexity levels is not only about handling the problems but also

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using an approach of unique and creative designing. Integration is regarding compromise and
negotiation as it involves swapping between the competitive requirements or needs of user’s
experience and maintaining a consistency with recent revenue system (Le Masson, Hatchuel
and Wei 2012).
Incorporating the design thinking methodologies into the search for the growth is a
time consuming process and going to take some time and patience on the individual’s part.
Majority of the companies, however, well excited and intentioned about innovation, aren’t
Google or P&G. Any company will be able to change or innovate their strategies and policies
if they have creative employees (Youtube.com 2017). All sorts of hindrances will be
probably thrown to the creative person who is responsible for finding new and modern
growth opportunities. In addition to this, moving a project through any company is a big
challenge and managers try to grow or innovate their new businesses by using creative design
approach (Moneta 2012).
Part 3
Design thinking is effective and efficient as it promotes a collaborative approach. It
helps in bringing in people from various parts of the company together, because of their
different knowledge, expertise, experiences and solves a problem. All these ingredients are
combined together and help an organization come up with creative and innovative ways of
solving a problem. Great and Innovative ideas helps in solving the organizational problems in
unique ways. Great ideas are the combination of the existing ideas. Brainstorming is very
powerful as it helps in bringing all the people together, with various experiences in order to
merge all together (Oman et al. 2013).
Subcultures flourish as because individuals are contributing their ideas, production
and funding. This results in the resurgence of creativity, community and craftsmanship. There

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are many problems which cannot be solved. One may not find technologies for solving any
particular problem, but it should be discovered very quickly. Therefore, the methodology of
design thinking is not necessarily responsible for generating better and innovative ideas for
the competitive methodologies. It is that these methodologies allow one to test the ideas very
quickly on order to observe the creative designing approach of one self. If an individual is a
good solver of problems, he/she can be regarded as creative (Page 2012).
Creativity and designing is a powerful strategy or tool which is an impactful one. In
my opinion, creating a strategy needs deciphering the patterns, presenting innovative
solutions as well as insightful ideas. Creative designing is a very powerful tool for all
organizations. When organizations bring in design thinking in the processes, the strategic
insights are made in easier ways. The evolving of the whole strategy becomes faster and
stronger, throughout the entire process. Developing strategies is not just hard, but the results
can also be complex. Extracting it into digestible, simpler and impactful story becomes
important and crucial. Creative designing is a particular way of emotionally and visually
bringing in the strategic stories to life (Navarrete 2013).
In addition to this, creative designing helps in making people view a clear narrative,
which takes people on to a journey and also makes solutions seem expected in the end. It is a
particular way of making and simplifying the whole strategies into more grounded and
human. It is very easy for the strategies to go over the head of the people, especially when
they are not a part of the journey. Organizations have this tendency of running into the road
blocks as the audiences seem unable to grasp the strategies. This becomes a problem which
needs to be sorted out. Therefore, creative designing helps in bringing in several innovative
strategies to life and gain an impactful position in the business for its growth and progress
(Shai et al. 2013).

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