Monday, April 5, 2010

Design Thinking

Beginning to examine Design Thinking and its implications for innovation in ministry. I asked one of my brothers who works as a consultant of Architecture and Engineer executives to recommend a couple of books on the subject for me. His three recommendations are:
I had a chance to read the intro to Martin's book. Compared mentally the innovation and design of what we now know as McDonalds (restaurants) and Campus Crusade for Christ. Fascinating! The mystery (of reality), leading to a "heuristic" (insight), that was reproduced over and over again by some "algorithm". If that doesn't make sense, well, you will have to read the beginning of The Design of Business. And when you do, the lights will turn on! They did for me.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should check out http://www.ideo.com

They're the best in the business.

-Eric

Keith Davy said...

Thanks, Eric. IDEO is amazing. Change by Design (Brown) is by the CEO of IDEO and tells much about their approach. Art of Innovation by Kelley does tell their story. Excellent resources. They have been an inspiration for a number of years!

Benson Hines said...

I'm excited by the WORLD of possibilities in applying outside wisdom (like this) to collegiate ministry. Thanks for pushing it - there are some who might struggle to get their minds around seeing college ministry as a field of study that should be constantly improved by outside understandings and inside developments. But we're getting there... Thanks, Keith!

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