Comments on: Design Thinking + Integrative Thinking = Better Library Decision Making

By: Graham Douglas

Graham Douglas — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:19:13 +0000

Regarding learning and practising Integrative Thinking, there are modules described on my website for just those purposes. Please let me know if you have any questions about the training offered.

By: Designing Better Libraries » Instead Of Picking Model A Or Model B Create Model C

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:27:50 +0000

[...] questions about integrative thinking, which is a term Martin uses to describe design thinking. I’ve written about Martin before, especially in wanting to shareÂ ideas about his “opposable mind”, and how it is a way [...]

By: Designing Better Libraries » Better Sleep On That

Designing Better Libraries » Better Sleep On That — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:03:06 +0000

[...] where my best ideas are likely to emerge. Some of the toughest challenges are the type where an opposable mind is needed to develop a good solution to resolve two conflicting ideas that stand in opposition to [...]

By: Designing Better Libraries » Design Thinking As The Intersection of Science And Design

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:17:56 +0000

[...] Another publication that I always look forward to is Rotman Magazine. It is published three times a year as the alumni magazine of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. You probably recognize the Rotman name because I’ve mentioned Roger Martin, the Dean of that School, a number of times in my past posts. He is one of the gurus of design thinking, and actively promotes the re-engineering ofÂ MBA education to focus as much, if not more, on design as it does on business theory and practice. [...]

By: Designing Better Libraries » Find Your Inner Creativity With Thinkertoys

Designing Better Libraries » Find Your Inner Creativity With Thinkertoys — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:51:24 +0000

[...] What I found really interesting was the link between one of Michalko’s techniques for improving creativity to solve problems and Roger Martin’s new book on the opposable mind. Both propose that in order to release creativity in problem solving one must be able to resolve “two opposite or contradictory ideas, concepts or images that exist simultaneously and that may even be beyond logic” (Michalko). This approach is what moves creative thinkers into the realm of seeing totally new perspectives on their existing problems in ways that free them from the biases of their routine approaches. We think there can’t possibly be another solution, that we’ve thought it all the way through. But when we explore options that are in complete opposition to our existing solutions, and then make the effort to resolve the two opposites a new solution is able to emerge. [NOTE - in the HBR article the authors pose that some decision-making situations are so utterly complex that one can only create an environment that allows solutions to emerge from the people affected by the problem; master problem solvers and highly creative individuals have the knowledge and experience to both establish the right environment and avoid the urge to impose their own solution]. [...]