System Execution Podcast

As a consultant, author, speaker and coach, Edgar Papke is dedicated to helping leaders build cultures of innovation and better align their organizations and teams to drive new ideas, produce change, and deliver meaningful solutions. He is the author of the books True Alignment and The Elephant In The Boardroom, and he is also the co-author of Innovation By Design. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Design thinking process: a way of engaging people and getting them to collaborate at a significant level through which you can identify and solve the right problems The five steps of the Design Thinking process: to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test Edgar and Thomas Lockwood’s book “Innovation By Design” that was born from studying the most innovative cultures in the world The common thread of design thinking that all of the cultures studied for the book implemented Empathizing in design thinking: understanding the experience of the customer Ignoring your personal experience: the most challengin