Blog: Devitt Design Innovation

06 September 2023, Frank Devitt

How a Design Thinking mindset improves employee performance

The most-wanted employee skills Design thinkers make better employees, because a design thinking mindset embeds the most-wanted employability skills of critical thinking, creativity and empathy. Critical thinking, creativity and empa... Read More

07 May 2021, Frank Devitt

ARRIVE

It's ARRIVE'd! Our new book on Design Thinking allied with business strategy and commercial awareness is now out and available at all the best bookshops. The ARRIVE framework for breakthrough innovation is for managers of innovation and ... Read More

01 May 2018, Frank Devitt

Design Thinking: Critical Thinking and Creativity in harmony

Most universities and other educators regard critical thinking as the priority generic skill they’d like students to acquire before graduating. Where creativity gets a look in, sadly it’s often tokenistic or confined to non-mainstream di... Read More

02 March 2018, Frank Devitt

Good Design Thinking Practice Needs Process

The methods of design thinking and their benefits are fairly well known. Ethnographic methods of user research heighten empathy levels and provide more fruitful insights. Reflective dialogue and creative envisioning brings to the surf... Read More

16 February 2018, Frank Devitt

Four Dimensions of Successful Innovation

A successful innovation project is desirable for the user, viable in the market and feasible with available technology. But, these well-known attributes are often not enough. Radical innovation projects demand deeper strategic involvemen... Read More

20 July 2016, Frank Devitt

When Micromanagement Rules

I’m not a great cook, yet I’ve never killed anyone as far as I know! One reason for my poor cooking skills is that earlier in my life I shared a kitchen with a chef who knew the right way to prepare and cook a dish and wouldn’t contem... Read More

15 October 2015, Frank Devitt

When Indecision Rules

Thirty years ago I worked as middle manager with Moog in Germany. There I had a boss who set the target for his managers that they “should get at least half of their decisions right”. It went without saying that his managers should seek ... Read More

29 September 2015, Frank Devitt

When Process Rules

I’ve studied the innovation capability of many organisations, as academic, consultant and employee. One question that arises regularly concerns process. Should processes be strengthened and should they be the dominant modus operandi of o... Read More

13 October 2014, Frank Devitt

Designing User Centered Business Processes

Organisational processes are great topics for heated discussion. For some, they represent the epitome of professionalism and objective management. For others they are the last resort of an unimaginative mind and a soulless culture. For m... Read More

13 October 2014, Frank Devitt

Elements of Sustainable Systemic Innovation

How can an organisation sustain innovation? Sustained Systemic Innovation Who has responsibility for what? Who does what? It’s hard to build and sustain innovation in any organisation. Everyone needs to be involved, yet some staf... Read More

13 October 2014, Frank Devitt

Can You Rely Too Much on Evidence?

I’ve been thinking recently about the way arguments often get rebuffed by a demand for evidence. Evidence-based this or that is now de rigueur in an increasing number of professions such as medicine, science, business management, public ... Read More

15 February 2014, Frank Devitt

How Google Works

There’s a new book out by Google’s Executive Chairman and CEO for the 10 years 2001-2011 Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, called How Google Works. One of the most revealing insights is their policy for hiring ‘smart creatives’. When ... Read More

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