Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) is at a turning point. Planning, designing, developing and operating IT used to be a management task of a few elites in public ad-ministrations and corporations. But the continuous digitization of nearly all areas of life changes the IT...

"In this book, the researchers take a system's view that begins with a demand for deep, evidence-based understanding of design thinking phenomena. They continue with an exploration of tools which can help improve the adaptive expertise needed for design thinking. The final part of the book...

More and more organizations have experienced the impact of design thinking on their innovation culture. People can see the way it changes how they and their coworkers innovate, how it affects their teamwork, and the impact it has on the quality of their output. The desire to understand the...

Part I: Tools and Techniques for Improved Team Interaction -- Part II: Creativity and Creative Confidence -- Part III: Measuring Design Thinking -- Part IV: Documentation and Information Transfer in Design Thinking Processes.

Introduction: Design Thinking for the 21st Century Organization -- Thisisdesignthinking.net: A Storytelling Project -- Part I: Design Thinking in Practice -- Part II: Exploring Human-Technology Interaction -- Part III: Prototyping -- Part IV: Developing DT Teaching and Coaching Tools & Approaches. .

Design thinking as a user-centric innovation method has become more and more widespread during the past years. An increasing number of people and institutions have experienced its innovative power. While at the same time the demand has grown for a deep, evidence-based understanding of the way...

1. Introduction. Lloyd Strickland, Julia Weckend -- Section 1: Science. 2. Philosophy and science in Leibniz. Maria Rosa Antognazza -- 3. Between learned science and technical knowledge: Leibniz, Leeuwenhoek and the school for microscopists. Alessandro Becchi -- 4. Leibniz, organic matter and...

This book summarizes the results of the second year in the Design Thinking Research Program, a joint venture of Stanford University in Palo Alto and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. The authors have taken a closer look at the issue of co-creation from different points-of-view. The concept of...

Recent achievements in hardware and software development, such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server, enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management. This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive...

Part I: Design Thinking Research in the Context of Co-located Teams -- Part II: Design Thinking Research in the Context of Distributed Teams -- Part III: Design Thinking in the Context of Embedded Business Teams