Successful Design Thinking operates based on a check and balance system between Rules of Engagement (ROE) and DT Forensics.
Design Thinking Forensics traces, identifies and documents the footprints of DT applications in order to determine the scope, execution, and subsequently the value of its deliverables. One of its main objectives is to identify design-thinking processes, applications and methodologies that cannot be found, performed or attributed to any other intelligence, field or domain.
1.Design Thinking is mining and extracting the essence of all key Design disciplines.
2. It uses its inherent process of thinking and solving as a conscious tool to teach how to innovate.
At this point it is a losing battle trying to find a unified voice about what Design Thinking does, or means. Most definitions are confusing, cumbersome, incomplete, make little sense, or have purely and simply nothing to do with Design Thinking. There is a big disconnect between the way the design community feels and interprets DT and the way business strategists define it.
Reflects my fundamental belief of Design Thinking as an intelligence, a strategy and a profession.