Nussbaum: China, India, Mexico, and Brazil Embrace "Design Thinking"

Design Thinking is spreading throughout the world. This article identifies a number of firms that are embracing Design Thinking as one of their <a href="

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Nussbaum: China, India, Mexico, and Brazil Embrace "Design Thinking"

Nussbaum surveys a unique network of innovation leaders in the "CIM-B" countries.

If you’re a business or an NGO with an operation in Asia or Latin America, where do you go when you want some serious local design thinking? You might start by calling my colleague and friend Carlos Teixeira, a Brazilian-born assistant professor at the School of Design Strategies, in Parsons The New School for Design.

Carlos has a Ph.D in design from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, one of the leading intellectual centers for design thinking in the world. Carlos heads a research lab called the Design Knowledge Networks Lab and he's the only guy who's tracking the growing network of locally-owned innovation consultancies in emerging markets that do strategy using design thinking.

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