Designomics: The Role of Financial Literacy in Design Innovation

Financial literacy is an essential component in design innovation projects, holding the potential to transform both the practice and education of design. The capacity to make effective financial decisions, encompassing knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy, is pivotal in the context of innovation (Warmath & Zimmerman, 2019). This capacity...

The adoption of design thinking and lean startup in an agile organisation: A case study of a global financial institution

Background: GFI was a global financial institution. An innovation methodology, DTLSA, was created for GFI through the integration of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile/Scrum software development. Signs of a low-level adoption for DTLSA were witnessed internally, despite ongoing promotion efforts.<br/><br/>Objective: This project aimed at...

Twings: A Platform Concept Towards Mainstreaming circular Economy Strategies

The ever growing world population - 10 billion by 2050 - brings many challenges to the table. One of the most imminent is the way we handle and take care of our planets natural resources. More people means more needs. How do are we going provide for all these people? Over the past decades, we have reached a general consensus that our planet is a...

Marketing Campaign for Mhogo Foods: Desining a Pilot Strategy

This project is a collaborative effort between graduating student Johan van der Schaaf from Delft University of Technology, BoP Innovation Center and client organization Mhogo Foods. The project is conducted mainly in Nairobi, Kenya and focuses on building a marketing pilot for Mhogo Foods to increase access to nutrition in low-income markets....

kss-Bike: Development of a trial bicycle with suspension for cross-training Motorcyclists

Trials is a subdiscipline of mountain biking that consists of two variants: one practiced with a trials bicycle and one with a trials motorcycle. Though these two disciplines have the same basic requirements, there are clear distinctions in the technical sports gestures that the respective athletes employ. This is due to some fundamental...

Bridging the valley of death: An Approach to aligning Design Agencies and their Clients through Organisational Empathy

A knowledge gap exists between design agencies and their clients leading to what is known as the Valley of Death. This is the result of a resource and knowledge gap around a concept, leading to challenges in adoption into an organisation resulting projects losing momentum, and ultimately being abandoned. The aim of this project was to develop a...

A design game for families: learning essential 21st century skills through a design thinking game

This graduation project has been carried out in the context of the research project ‘Co-Design with Kids: Early acquisition of 21st century skills’ at the TU Delft. <br/>To prepare families with kids for the open-ended challenges of the 21st century, essential skills such as creative thinking, communication, and empathy should be mastered early...

Consultancy+: the integrated training programme on customer experience innovation for organisations in transition

On the present day, corporate organisations want to change their product-focussed approach towards a customer experience focussed approach. This human- centred approach to innovation is called CX Innovation. CX Innovation gives corporate organisations a competitive advantage, but they struggle to implement CX Innovation in their organisation....

Pitch-Crafting Guide for Entrepreneurs

Startups pitch their business to different audiences, for different reasons. In high-stakes situations, it is a well-crafted pitch that decides if they are going to win the competition, get funded or hire the best talent. Pitch is a persuasive attempt to convince, promote or sell, often in a high-pressure manner. High stakes pitches are often...

The Service Innovation Labs‘ Incubator Service: Co-Creating with corporations to enhance innovation using lean startup design

Corporates today face the challenge that their innovation efforts are ineffective and inefficient. Many anticipated ideas and opportunities get suffocated and lost in the dragging long processes within corporates. Bureaucracy, micropolitical dynamics and hierarchy add even obstacles to the process that make it close to impossible to realize...

How Design Thinking can enrich the strategy development process in current organizational context

The organizational context of firms is continuously subjective to change as, for example, new regulations, ever changing market trends (e.g. the shift from ownership to sharing as with the music streaming service of Spotify) and disruptive innovations in technology (e.g. 3D-printing, the ‘cloud’ or ‘the internet of things’) relentlessly alter...

Reframing Strategy Tools: The design of a new tool the development of innovation strategy

Business is changing and recently there has been a call for new ways of thinking to solve todays strategic innovation challenges. One of the solutions considered is Design Thinking, but a pragmatic approach in how to implement this new way of thinking into the domain of innovation strategy is lacking. This thesis aims to bridge the worlds of...

Design Thinking in a Technology Driven Context: To develop a scheme for exploration for Thales Design Centre

Thales, a well-known company that provides products and services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets, is a technology driven company. The usual approach to innovation within a technology driven company is to focus on the development of a technology, and once the technology is ready, find application for it in the...

How to transfer design thinking qualities to non designers.

The concept of design thinking is highly wining ground not only to the design engineering field but also in fields related and associated with business and management. An increasing amount of non designers who use design thinking emerges. Thus, the purpose of this thesis is to transfer design thinking qualities to non designers. Service Science...

Strategymaking: Discovering, creating and pursuing opportunities and solutions

Strategymaking is a vision driven approach towards identifying, creating & pursuing strategies. The strategymaking process is one of learning and discovery but it is also one of capturing opportunities and solutions. A fortunate thing about rapid & disruptive change is that it does not only bring organizations turbulence and uncertainty, with...

MILIGHT: Design of a Mass-Market Building Retrofitting Model

Strategic design of a innovative retrofitting industrial process for massive market uptake of energy retrofitting for social housing in Europe.

Strategy Development and New Service Design for mobility start-up venture Go About

Mobility is something that is going to change drastically in the coming years and decades. The main influences are the web as a new social medium, and sustainability. Go About is a free offering where workers can plan and register mobility right from Microsoft Outlook as an online service that is integrated in the calendar as a plug-in. They...