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How Design Thinking Tools Help To Solve Wicked Problems

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If design thinking is a means to solve problems – what problems is it good for? Obviously, it is not made to help physicists compute precise mathematical solutions. Neither does it help the industry to make their standard products a little faster, smaller or shinier than before.

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  1. Hasso-Plattner-Institut an der Universität Potsdam, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Julia von Thienen

  2. Internet Technologies and -Systems, Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Campus Griebnitzsee, Postdam, 14482, Germany

    Christoph Meinel

  3. Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, School of Design Thinking, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, D-14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Claudia Nicolai

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Correspondence to Julia von Thienen .

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  1. Stanford Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    Larry Leifer

  2. Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Germany

    Hasso Plattner

  3. Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Germany

    Christoph Meinel

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von Thienen, J., Meinel, C., Nicolai, C. (2014). How Design Thinking Tools Help To Solve Wicked Problems. In: Leifer, L., Plattner, H., Meinel, C. (eds) Design Thinking Research. Understanding Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01303-9_7

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