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Design Your Thinking (2020)

Design Your Thinking, authored by Dr. Pavan Soni and published by Penguin Random House in 2020

25,000+ copies sold

National Bestseller 

Shortlisted for BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book of the Year 2021

Featured by Yourstory in "India@75: 15 books on startups, innovation and creativity in India"

Table of content

  • What is Design Thinking?

  • Why Design Thinking Now?

  • Key Tenets of Design Thinking

  • Inspire

  • Empathize and Define

  • Ideate

  • Prototype and Test

  • Scale

  • Design Thinking in Action 

  • How to Be a Design Thinker

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Why this book?

  • Offers a revised and updated five stage model of problem solving: Inspire, Empathize and Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test, and Scale,  

  • Presents over 20 Toolsets, Skillsets and Mindsets appropriate for effective problem solving, 

  • Showcases 30+ case studies from India and abroad on how leading firms have embraced design thinking as a means of creativity and fostering an innovation culture, 

  • Presents a step by step guide to implement design thinking in your team without depending on external consultant or advisors, 

  • With a comprehensive mindmap of the entire book that serves as a good reference, anytime anywhere.  

Case Studies 

3M
Accenture
Amazon
Anand
Apple
Aravind Eye Care
Asian Paints
Bain and Company
Big Basket
Biocon
Booking.com
Bosch
Cafe Coffee Day
D-Mart
Google
Hero MotorCorp
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Disney
Honda
Flipkart
IDEO
Future Group
iD Fresh Foods
IIM Bangalore
Indigo
Infosys
Intel
Intuit
ISRO
ITC
Johnson-Johnson
Lemon Tree Hotels
Mahindra
Maruti Suzuki
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Microsoft
Netflix
Ogilvy
Ola Cabs
OYO Rooms
Paytm
Pepsi
Pixar
Reliance
Royal Enfield
Samsung
Sony
Tata
Titan
Twitter
Unilever
Wipro

Articles and Videos

Process Model of Design Thinking

Design thinking is not a tool for every season and every reason. There are certain contexts and attributes that suit this approach better than others. Read more 

What is Design Thinking 

Reviews

‘Dr Soni has delivered a lucid treatise on the “how to” of design thinking. A must-read book’

- Vijay Govindarajan, Dartmouth College

‘A fresh perspective on design thinking with important added elements, namely inspiration and scale. As new opportunities in a dramatically different world are explored, one will be able to draw on unique insights from the multitude of case studies peppered throughout the book. A thorough and sincere effort by Dr Pavan Soni’

- Dr R.A. Mashelkar, Former Director General of CSIR

‘An amazing read from Dr Pavan Soni. Rich in literature on design thinking and insights from Indian examples, the book guides the evolution of the thinking process systematically and systemically’

- Dr K. Radhakrishnan, Former Chairman, ISRO

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