RESOURCES

FILTER
all books jeanne-liedtka spotlight presentations videos templates podcasts academic forms business articles journals blogs
The Experimentation Field Guide
Spotlight, Jeanne Liedtka, Book

The Experimentation Field Guide

by Jeanne Liedtka, Elizabeth Chen, Natalie Foley and David Kester
Coming Fall 2023!
Insights from Prof. Jeanne Liedtka from the d.confestival 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa
Jeanne Liedtka, Video, Presentation

Insights from Prof. Jeanne Liedtka from the d.confestival 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa

d-school Afrika
“Taking your DT Capability to the Next Step: Unpacking how to facilitate the DT Learning Journey”
Jeanne Liedtka, Video, Presentation

“Taking your DT Capability to the Next Step: Unpacking how to facilitate the DT Learning Journey”

IRDG: Design Thinking Ireland 2020
Global Design Thinking Conference 2020 Keynote
Jeanne Liedtka, Video, Presentation

Global Design Thinking Conference 2020 Keynote

Jeanne Liedtka
Experiencing Design: The Innovator’s Journey
Book

Experiencing Design: The Innovator’s Journey

by Jeanne Liedtka, Karen Hold and Jessica Eldridge
The Designing for Growth Field Book, 2nd Edititon
Book

The Designing for Growth Field Book, 2nd Edititon

By Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie and Rachel Brozenske
MURAL: Evaluating the Impact of Design Thinking in Action II
Presentation

MURAL: Evaluating the Impact of Design Thinking in Action II

Prof. Jeanne Liedtka (moderator) with Kristina Jaskyte Bahr and Mariano Suarez-Batten (panelists)
Professor Jeanne Liedtka shares an update with MURAL on her previous research study as well as introduces a new tool she developed with colleague Kristina Jaskyte Bahr (University of Georgia School of Social Work) which allows you to self-assess the impact of design thinking within your own organization and see how your results compare to […]
Designing for Growth Field Book: Templates
Template

Designing for Growth Field Book: Templates

Templates referred to in the D4G Field Book by Jeanne Liedtka
Spotlight, Jeanne Liedtka, Podcast, Presentation

DisrupTV podcast, Episode 109, Featuring Jeanne Liedtka

Exploring the Impact of Design Thinking in Action (Darden Working Paper Series)
Academic Paper

Exploring the Impact of Design Thinking in Action (Darden Working Paper Series)

by Jeanne M. Liedtka, United Technologies Corporation Professor of Business Administration, UVA Darden School of Business
Join us in Our Research
Forms

Join us in Our Research

Share your insights and receive updates on "Exploring the Impact of Design Thinking in Action"
Podcast

Jeanne Liedtka: Strategically Blending Strategy and Design

Conversation with Saul Kaplan at Business Model Sandbox
The Business of Government Hour Interview with Jeanne Liedtka (Nov, 2017)
Podcast, Business

The Business of Government Hour Interview with Jeanne Liedtka (Nov, 2017)

Design Thinking for the Greater Good
Book

Design Thinking for the Greater Good

By Jeanne Liedtka, Randy Salzman and Daisy Azer
Facing especially wicked problems, social sector organizations are searching for powerful new methods to understand and address them. Design Thinking for the Greater Good goes in depth on both the how of using new tools and the why.
Designing for Growth Field Book
Book

Designing for Growth Field Book

By Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie and Rachel Brozenske
In Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers(D4G), Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie showed how design can boost innovation and drive growth.
Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works
Book

Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works

By Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King and Kevin Bennett
Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can affect business results. However, most managers lack a sense of how to use this new approach for issues other than product development and sales growth.
Designing for Growth, a Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers
Book

Designing for Growth, a Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers

By Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie
Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: “design thinking,” or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth.
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm
Book

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm

By Tom Kelley, with Jonathon Littman
IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid’s I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Book

The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

By Dan Roam
There is no more powerful way to prove that we know something well than to draw a simple picture of it. And there is no more powerful way to see hidden solutions than to pick up a pen and draw out the pieces of our problem.
Believe Me: Why your Vision, Brand, and Leadership Need a Bigger Story
Book

Believe Me: Why your Vision, Brand, and Leadership Need a Bigger Story

By Michael Margolis
If you’re an innovator or change-maker, this book sheds new light on how to shift perceptions and get others to believe in what you’re doing. BELIEVE ME introduces you to 15 storytelling axioms that will change how you think about your work.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Book

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By Malcolm Gladwell
In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
Book

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

By Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow’s enterprises
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Book

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

By Tim Brown
The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses.
Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval
Book

Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval

By Jonathon Cagan and Craig Vogel
Creating Breakthrough Products identifies key factors associated with successful innovation, and presents an insightful and comprehensive approach to building products and services that redefine markets — or create new ones.
Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
Book

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

By Roberto Verganti
Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market.
The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
Book

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

By Roger Martin
Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game—changing innovation like Apple’s iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook.
Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value
Book

Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value

By Thomas Lockwood
Design Thinking confirms that design, as a process and as an output, has greater opportunity to add value to the triple bottom line than any other business function.
Designing Interactions
Book

Designing Interactions

By Bill Moggridge
Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work.
Experience Design
Book

Experience Design

By Nathan Shedroff
With Experience Design, Nathan Shedroff has designed and written a book for those in the digital and related design professions, especially those creating online and interactive media who are looking for core inspiration and meaning in their work.
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business
Book

A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business

By Hartmut Esslinger
Hartmut Esslinger is the founder of frog design, inc., a leading global innovation firm, and one of the most respected designers and business consultants in the world.
Game Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
Book

Game Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation

By A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan
How you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job.
Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, and Maybe Even the World
Book

Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, and Maybe Even the World

By Warren Berger
What can we learn from the ways great designers think-and how can it improve our lives?
How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate
Book

How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate

By Andrew Hargadon
This book presents lessons from the famous ‘Invention Factories’ past and present.
Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates
Book

Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates

By Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson
If you’re like most business leaders, innovation now tops your corporate agenda. But despite all the talk and excitement about the importance of innovation, managers have so far found scant help for innovating in a systematic way that fuels consistent growth and sustained success.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Book

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.”
Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences
Book

Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences

By Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, and Darrel Rhea
In a market economy characterized by commoditized products and global competition, how do companies gain deep and lasting loyalty from their customers? The key, this book argues, is in providing meaningful customer experiences.
Massive Change
Book

Massive Change

By Bruce Mau and Jennifer Leonard
Massive Change is a modern, illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide.
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
Book

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology

By Henry Chesbrough
In today’s information-rich environment, companies can no longer afford to rely entirely on their own ideas to advance their business, nor can they restrict their innovations to a single path to market.
The Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking
Book

The Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking

By Roger Martin
If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind.
Positive Turbulence: Developing Climates for Creativity, Innovations, and Renewal
Book

Positive Turbulence: Developing Climates for Creativity, Innovations, and Renewal

By Stanley S. Gryskiwicz
Can your company manage — even encourage — turbulence in ways that actually strengthen its competitive stance? Absolutely.
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
Book

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

By Bill Buxton
Sketching User Experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood―by both designers and the people with whom they need to work― in order to achieve success with new products and systems.
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
Book

The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization

By Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman
The role of the devil’s advocate is nearly universal in business today. It allows individuals to step outside themselves and raise questions and concerns that effectively kill new projects and ideas, while claiming no personal responsibility.
Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
Book

Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution

By Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them?
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Book

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

By Steven Johnson
Where do good ideas come from? And what do we need to know and do to have more of them?
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Book

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

By Daniel H. Pink
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic “right-brain” thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t.
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When they Create Widespread Empathy
Book

Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When they Create Widespread Empathy

By Dev Patnaik, with Peter Mortensen
In this essential and illuminating book, top business strategist Dev Patnaik tells the story of how organizations of all kinds prosper when they tap into a power each of us already has: empathy, the ability to reach outside of ourselves and connect with other people.
Starting a Tech Business
Book

Starting a Tech Business

By Alex Cowan
The Physics of Business Growth
Book

The Physics of Business Growth

By Edward Hess and Jeanne Liedtka
Designing for Growth
Book

Designing for Growth

By Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie
Article

The Business of Design

by Dean Roger Martin
We are on the cusp of a design revolution in business, says Dean Roger Martin. Competing is no longer about creating dominance in scale-intensive industries, it’s about producing elegant, refined products and services in imagination-intensive industries.
Presentation

Teaching Design Thinking in B Schools: Lessons Learned

By Jeanne Liedtka
Teaching Design Thinking in B Schools: Lessons Learned and Surprises Suffered
Presentation

The Challenge of Organic Growth: Why design? Why now?

By Jeanne Liedtka
Changes in Attitude, Changes in Latitude
Journal

Design Issues

MIT Press
The first American academic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism, Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design.
Journal

Design Management Review

The dmi:Review is devoted to articles and case studies explaining how design—in products, communication, and environments—is an essential resource, a component of every organization that can be effectively managed to make important contributions to the bottom line and to long-term success.
Journal

International Journal of Design

The International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design
Journal

International Journal of Product Development

IJPD is a refereed international journal providing an authoritative source of information in the field of product development and innovation.
Journal

Rotman

The Magazine of the Rotman School of Management
Fast Co. Design
Blog

Fast Co. Design

Business + Design Blog
Blog

Open U

U101: The Design Thinking Blog
OpenIDEO
Blog

OpenIDEO

OpenIDEO is a global community working together to design solutions for the world’s biggest challenges.
Zurb
Blog

Zurb

ZURB, a team of designers, researchers and nerds that help companies design better products, websites and services by uncovering #DesignInsights
UVA Darden School on Forbes.com
Blog

UVA Darden School on Forbes.com

Improving the world through entrepreneurship and innovation.
Blog

Peer Insight

We’re designers. We’re dreamers. We’re thought leaders and business specialists.
Blog

Tim Brown

Design Thinking: Thoughts by Tim Brown
Blog

Roger Martin

Roger Martin is the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness.
Blog

Helen Walters

Helen Walters: Writer, Editor
Article

Designing for Growth: 5 Keys to Innovation

By Jeanne Liedtka and Randy Salzman
Darden Ideas to Action, 10 April 2017.
Article

Improve the ER: Design Thinking With Health and Human Services

By Jeanne Liedtka and Randy Salzman
Darden Ideas to Action, 9 March 2017.
Article

Lessons From Innovation Catalysts: Can They Help Us Thrive in Uncertain Times?

By Jeanne Liedtka and Randy Salzman
Darden Ideas to Action, 22 February 2017
Article

‘Be Bold,’ ‘Sell Your Solution,’ and Other Management Cliches You Should Ignore

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie
BusinessWeek.com, 10 April 2014
Article

The ‘Moses Myth’ of Innovation

Jeanne Liedtka
BusinessWeek.com, 25 Sept 2013
Article

Design Thinking: Creating a Better Understanding of Today to Get to a Better Tomorrow

By Kevin Bennett
forbes.com, 29 Aug 2013
Article

Design Thinking

By Tim Brown
Harvard Business Review, 2008
Article

The Role of Design Thinking in Firms and Management Education

Bruce A. Heiman and William R. Burnett
Working Paper, 2007.
Article

8 Ways to Coax New Ideas to the Surface

By Edward D. Hess, Jeanne M. Liedtka and Robert Friedel
Fast Company 7 Aug 2012
Article

The Design of Business

By Roger Martin
Rotman Management, 2004
Article

The Positive Spiral: Six Keys to Success

By Roger Martin
Bloomberg BusinessWeek 28 Feb 2007
Article

Design Thinking: Hard Skills from a Soft Science

By Garth Saloner
BizEd Jan/Feb 2011
Article

Innovation: A Leadership Essential

MITSloan
MITSloan Management Review, Special Report
Article

Innovation and Growth: Understanding the Power of Design Thinking

By Gosia Glinska and Batten Briefing
University of Virginia, January 2015
Article

Design Thinking: What It Is and Why It Works

By Jeanne Liedtka
Jeanne Liedtka, Darden School of Business Jan, 2013