#📓 #📄 #🟠 # Implementing Design Thinking: Understanding Organizational Conditions ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Sep 18, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Nov 25, 2022</small> 🏷️ [[Design Thinking]], [[Organization Development MOC|OD]] **Author:** Cara Wrigley, Erez Nusem and Karla Straker **Citation:** Wrigley, C., Nusem, E., & Straker, K. (2020). Implementing Design Thinking: Understanding Organizational Conditions. _California Management Review_, _62_(2), 125–143. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125619897606](https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125619897606) --- # Summary Explores seven case studies to identify conditions required for organizations to successfully integrate design thinking. Four conditions are identified and the author examines the relationships between them to design a framework of understanding. ([note on p.125](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/77X2JLD7?page=1)) ## Key Takeaways # Notes & Important Ideas - Design thinking usually addressed as an [[Design intervention|intervention]]. - Design as strategic resource to manage complex problems "through analysis that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to provide solutions" (Wrigley et al., 2020, p. 126). ([note on p.126](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/77X2JLD7?page=2)) - Shift from design thinking as science to design thinking as a mindset. ([note on p.126](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/77X2JLD7?page=2)) ![[Design awareness to action framework.jpg]] - [[Design integration]] - [[Design catalyst]] - [[Four Organizational Conditions for Design Integration]] ![[Organizational conditions framework.jpg]] ## Connections to Other Materials --- # Personal Reflections & Application # Other References TBR:: 🔖 Wrigley, C. (Summer 2016). Design innovation catalysts: Education and impact. *She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 2*(2), 148-165. (Z) TBR:: 🔖 Brown, T. (June 2008). Design Thinking. *Harvard Business Review, 86*(6), 84-92. (Z) TBR:: 🔖 Beckman, S. L., & Barry, M. (Fall 2007). Innovation as a learning process: Embedding design thinking. *California Management Review, 50*(1), 25-56. (Z)