Adoption of Design Thinking by a novice multidisciplinary team in industry

Adoption of Design Thinking by a novice multidisciplinary team in industry

Melcior Carrillo de Albornoz, J.

Eisenbart, B. (mentor)
Tanghe, J.G. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Industrial Design

2017-05-26

Despite the limited amount of empirical evidence, the adoption of the Design Thinking approach is frequently presented as a solution to many of the problems that large organizations face when executing radical innovation projects. In this master thesis, a longitudinal study was conducted which revealed the difficulties of implementing such approach with a novice multidisciplinary team in a large corporation. Along the document, the causes for such barriers at the individual, team and organizational levels are analyzed by a combination of empirical evidence and extensive literature review. As a result, a framework is presented which highlights the importance of carefully setting up the project prior to its execution, emphasizing a broad variety of interdependent enablers. In particular, a highly adaptive team structure is proposed, and guidance is offered on how to set up such team for success and ensure the adequate organizational support structures.

Design Thinking
Corporate venturing
Corporate entrepreneurship
Intrapreneurship
Radical innovation
Breakthrough innovation
Creative facilitation
Multidisciplinary team management
Multi-level theory in innovation management
Systems theory in innovation management

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Student theses

master thesis

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