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Leading Information Technology via Design Thinking

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Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education

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Design thinking is a solution-finding process that offers a user-centric approach to find new, previously nonexistent solutions to persistent challenges people face in the adoption and implementation of IT. This chapter explains what design thinking is, why it would be of use to leaders of IT, and how to put it into practice in the leadership of IT.

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  1. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

    John B. Nash

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  1. University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joke Voogt

  2. University of North Texas , Denton, Texas, USA

    Gerald Knezek

  3. University of North Texas , Denton, Texas, USA

    Rhonda Christensen

  4. University of Otago , Dunedin, New Zealand

    Kwok-Wing Lai

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  1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Sara Dexter

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Nash, J.B. (2018). Leading Information Technology via Design Thinking. In: Voogt, J., Knezek, G., Christensen, R., Lai, KW. (eds) Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education . Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53803-7_109-1

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