Enhancing Design Thinking with Framing Prof. Igor Hawryszkiewycz School of Systems, Management and Leadership

The paper describes how design thinking can foster the creativity and innovation needed to provide business solutions in the trend to more complex environments. The paper however describes some limitations of design thinking and identifies the need to combine the social focus of design thinking with the more formal analytical methods to provide business solutions. The paper does this by integrating framing into the process to provide guidelines in creating solutions and following with system thinking for implementation. Here design thinking provides the social environment to look at existing systems in detail and identify their complexities and creative ways to address them. The analytical or scientific approach is then needed to put these into practice.