Brown writes with a winning combination of thoughtfulness, pragmatism and enthusiasm... He avoids the trap of presenting design thinking as a panacea. Mr. Brown charts its failures as well as successes... -- New York Times It's like getting golf tips from Tiger Wood's coach. Tim Brown's firm IDEO has won more medals for innovative design than anyone in the world. If you want to be more innovative at work or in life, study with the coach of champions. -- Chip Heath, co-author of Made to Stick In his new book, the CEO of design shop IDEO shows how even hospitals can transform the way they work by tapping frontline staff to engineer change. -- BusinessWeek This should be mandatory reading for marketers and engineers who can't understand why a product as cool as the Segway wasn't a breakout hit. -- Inc. Tim Brown has written the definitive book on design thinking. Brown's wit, experience, and compelling stories create a delightful journey. His masterpiece captures the emotions, mindset, and methods required for designing everything from a product, to an experience, to a strategy in entirely different ways. -- Robert I. Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule With people like Brown codifying design thinking, the tools are out there to solve our problems if a few people are willing to attack them with that sort of tenacity. -- Core77 Tim Brown's vision, intellect, empathy and humility shine through every page of this book. Change by Design is for dreamers and doers, for corporate executives and NGO leaders, for teachers, students and those interested in the art of innovation. -- Jacqueline Novogratz, founder, Acumen Fund and author, The Blue Sweater Design thinking... is a way of seeing the world and approaching constraints that is holistic, interdisciplinary, and inspiring. -- Ivy Ross, executive vice president of marketing, The Gap Brown is clear, persuasive, and often funny... Even for those of us without our own sovereign nation or blue-chip corporation, design thinking offers a guide for rethinking and organizing our everyday creative processes. -- SEED Brown makes a potent case for employing this creative collaboration in a variety of settings. -- Miami Herald With clarity and crispness, Tim Brown, CEO of the honored, global design consultancy IDEO, demonstrates through noteworthy examples how the principles of design found in a studio can be applied to many of the most urgent challenges facing society, business and government today. -- Peter F. Eder, World Future Review In his highly readable and compelling new book, Change by Design, Tim argues that design thinking needs to permeate every organization-and shape all of its interactions with its constituents. -- Gary Hamel, writer of Management 2.0
