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This chapter introduces design thinking and systems thinking, which have attracted attention in recent years as creative techniques to promote innovation. Tim Brown developed the idea of design thinking, which is a collaborative process where not only technically feasible things and executable business strategies but also the designer’s sensibility and methods are used to meet the needs of people. On the other hand, researchers who sympathize with the system dynamics that Jay Wright Forrester proposed half a century ago use the term “systems thinking” when identifying the system structure using causal loop diagrams in the context of innovation management.
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Tim Brown is the CEO and president of IDEO, which is an international design and consulting firm founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1991 (Wikipedia).
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The waterfall model is a relatively linear sequential design approach for certain areas of engineering design (Wikipedia).
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Since this book does not deal with quantitative simulation, the next section only introduces the literature for interested readers.
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The number of books that mainly describe causal loop diagrams while including systems thinking in the title is increasing (for instance, Anderson and Johnson 1997). However, systems thinking in a broad sense means the entire effort to solve problems focusing on the relationship of the elements (see, for instance, Checkland 1981; Jackson 2003).
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Nakamori, Y. (2020). Creative Techniques. In: Knowledge Construction Methodology. Translational Systems Sciences, vol 20. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9887-2_2
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