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PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-100262324318

ISBN-139780262324311

eBay Product ID (ePID)202675555

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Book TitleFrame Innovation : Create New Thinking by Design

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicDecision-Making & Problem Solving, Industrial Design / General, General, Strategic Planning

IllustratorYes

GenreDesign, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics

AuthorKees Dorst

Book SeriesDesign Thinking, Design Theory Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight16.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-027047

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisHow organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's problems are a new breed--open, complex, dynamic, and networked--and require a radically different response. In this book, Kees Dorst describes a new, innovation-centered approach to problem-solving in organizations: frame creation. It applies "design thinking," but it goes beyond the borrowed tricks and techniques that usually characterize that term. Frame creation focuses not on the generation of solutions but on the ability to create new approaches to the problem situation itself. The strategies Dorst presents are drawn from the unique, sophisticated, multilayered practices of top designers, and from insights that have emerged from fifty years of design research. Dorst describes the nine steps of the frame creation process and illustrates their application to real-world problems with a series of varied case studies. He maps innovative solutions that include rethinking a store layout so retail spaces encourage purchasing rather than stealing, applying the frame of a music festival to understand late-night problems of crime and congestion in a club district, and creative ways to attract young employees to a temporary staffing agency. Dorst provides tools and methods for implementing frame creation, offering not so much a how-to manual as a do-it-yourself handbook--a guide that will help practitioners develop their own approaches to problem-solving and creating innovation.

LC Classification NumberTS171.D667 2015