This introduction to the special issue on design thinking explores the idea of DT and whether DT makes a difference in terms of enhancing or augmenting the result of technology and innovation.

This article examines how Siemen's molecular imaging group incorporated design thinking principles into R&D to regain market leadership.

Design thinking has emerged as an important way for designers to draw on rich customer insights to enhance their products and services. However, design thinking is now also beginning to influence how corporate managers bring customer data into their day-to-day strategic planning.

Design thinking can be a critical facilitator of new technologies, but it is also a technology in its own right - a social technology that encourages more productive innovation conversations that are valuable for dynamic capabilities.

Design is all around us. There are four principles common to many design thinking approaches. To better understand the process of good design, it is important to understand how each of the four relates to human psychology.

Organizational leaders are increasingly turning to design approaches as a panacea for uncertainty and disruption. However, frictions between design, engineering, and management make integration difficult.

Organizational leaders are increasingly turning to design approaches as a panacea for uncertainty and disruption. However, frictions between design, engineering, and management make integration difficult.

Design Thinking is a major area of emerging research, examining the process of good design. It is based around related sets of human-centered principles - observing and noticing, framing and reframing, imagining and designing, and making and experimenting.