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...

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...

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.

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...