SUMMIT MAY 28-30 AMSTERDAM

NEW

Grow design thinking

Learn from each other

Co-create new approaches

Come join us for our global annual summit filled with active programs for these three days hosted by Philips. We will be utilizing our platform to talk, discuss and work on the question: Do we need to innovate Design Thinking?

THE NEXT generation of

Design Thinking and Doing

Design Thinking practitioners are often the catalysts for cultural transformation and people centric innovation: a key differentiator for companies to stay relevant in a fast changing business world. The change makers behind this
transformation adopt people-centric behaviors, and gather a lot of experience on their journey that mostly stays in their organization. Design at Business connects the catalysts and leverages their knowledge - to accelerate organizational change.

A Global Community of

like-minded Changemakers

Design at Business, a cross-company network was founded in 2010 in order to accelerate Design Thinking as a people-centric innovation approach. It connects changemakers from more than 150 large companies around the world: to learn from each other, co-create best practices and new approaches. Outcomes are used by members to leverage and scale shared knowledge.

Benefits for the

community members

Benchmark

Gain insights from other large enterprises on how they scale Design Thinking

Orientation

Learn from experienced leaders which design-led strategy worked for them, and which didn't

Focused

Our meetups are for large enterprises only and hand-picked external experts

Acceleration

Learn faster through peer-exchange and cross-company training experiences

Result oriented

We go beyond talking, and work towards tangible outcomes

How we

play

It’s not about titles, sales or shiny successes – we share real stories and learnings by connecting design-minded changemakers of the enterprise world. Our events are made to foster an open and honest dialogue at eye-level about real content. They are a platform to pitch and further develop new ideas. We can work jointly to create new solutions with peers who have the same challenges – hands-on, and iterative.

THIS IS

WHAT we do

We offer community driven activities in Europe, Asia and North America:

Spring 2018 Meetup at AARP, Washington, D.C.

Join a curated group of DT Practitioners Apr 11-13th as they share real world practices on organizational models, skillsets and Executive Education for DT.

April 11, 2018

Transforming from the inside out - Meetup at SAP

Join the European change makers on Nov 28 & 29 in Heidelberg for two days of inspiration and exchange, and share your transformation story!

November 28, 2017

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the

NEWS

Check out all the happenings at Design at Business.

Good Read

Designing Access to food for students in SF schools

Read our blog about a participatory design sprint led by DatB together with SFUSD and Student Nutrition Services to design access to food for today's students.

Meetup

Meetup at Siemens, Bangalore

With 24 participants from 10 organizations tackled the question, How might we measure the dissemination of Design Thinking and how might we measure its impact?

SEE ALL NEWS

Hand picked

REsources

Here is a collection of resources revolving around Design at Business and beyond for your Design Thinking development.

Best Practices

What are the

members saying?

"The community has connected me with deep practitioners in the innovation space who are at the cutting edge of scaling design thinking within the enterprise. We share lessons about designing better products and better companies. Its about process and people. Execution and education. Outcomes and organizational design. Some of these leaders have been at it for decades. Hearing those lessons learned allows you to stand on the shoulders of giants!"

Mark Rogers, Design Strategist,
Fidelity Labs

"Design at Business is a great opportunity to extend my professional Design Thinking Network. In every event I am able to gain new insights how other multinational corporations are setting up their Design Thinking activities and how they are dealing with various challenges to bring customer insights to business impact."

Dr. Bettina Maisch, Senior Key Expert Consultant,
Siemens Corporate Technology

our founding & Contributing

Partners

Design at Business is only possible because of the passion and commitment of individuals. These people are part of a large organization that sees a value in contributing to the community. Because of the time and energy provided by all of our partners, enables the network to grow.

Let us introduce our founding partners followed by our contributing partners that are sponsoring this network: