{"id":22478,"date":"2020-12-01T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/design-thinking-innovation-digital-transformation-debts-post-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T11:36:27","slug":"design-thinking-innovation-digital-transformation-debts-post-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.experfy.com\/blog\/future-of-work\/design-thinking-innovation-digital-transformation-debts-post-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Design Thinking Innovation: Digital Transformation Debts post-Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article is the sixth part of a ten-part series on Digital Transformation Debt, post-Covid-19.\u00a0<\/a>Part 1<\/a> focused on Culture.\u00a0Part 2<\/a>\u00a0delved deeper into Operational Excellence and inter-enterprise Value Streams As A Service.\u00a0Part 3<\/a>\u00a0explained the spectrum of Automation and the shifts post-Covid-19..\u00a0Part 4<\/a>\u00a0demonstrated how a new harvest of Low Code\/No Code platforms is empowering Citizen Developers.\u00a0Part 5<\/a>\u00a0highlighted the emerging trend of tools and best practices for Citizen Data Scientist. Part 6 focuses on pragmatic innovation \u2013 primarily through the increasingly popular\u00a0Design Thinking Methodology<\/a>\u00a0leveraging digital technologies for innovation. Design Thinking can be leveraged both by startups for faster and more successful Minimum Viable Products or incumbent enterprises on their transformation journeys. Design Thinking Methodology, as described here, incorporates the\u00a0Design Sprint<\/a>\u00a0followed by Minimum Viable Product (MVP) development using Low Code\/No Code platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post-Covid-19 Mandate for Innovation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Covid-19 lockdown and shutdown of businesses and government is a mega-event, and more importantly, it is causing mega-cultural-trends that will change us for many decades to come. The crisis has forced us to re-think and re-align 2020 challenges and trends in the post-Covid-19 era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Covid-19 pandemic is also a Black Swan<\/a> event par excellence \u2013 even though some dispute<\/a> this characterization. More importantly, the author of Black Swan \u2013 Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>– has another equally compelling perspective in Antifragile \u2013 Things That Gain from Disorder<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>Here is what he says on anti-fragility that is so relevant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Spot on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Covid-19 accentuates acceleration in experimenting, deploying, or abandoning old organizational structures with bold, innovative alternative cultures and solutions at all organization levels.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mindsets need to be changed. Innovation needs to become the prevailing epitome for all organizations: startups and established enterprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are now witnessing many industries such as healthcare<\/a>, manufacturers<\/a>, pharmaceutical companies<\/a>, and restaurants<\/a> re-defining and re-organizing themselves for Covid-19 products and services at an unprecedented rate. We are also witnessing innovative startups re-aligning their services<\/a>, given the Covid-19 constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now more than ever, enterprises need to be in-motion<\/em><\/a>: <\/em>embarking upon cultural transformation, leveraging digital technologies while continuously innovating with tangible results. Enterprises that embark upon the “motion” journey will face some resistance, especially in the get-go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Covid-19 era, being a Startup-In-Motion or an Enterprise-In-Motion is no longer a luxury. It is a necessity for survival. Design Thinking provides a robust process for accelerated innovation, prototyping, and evaluation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Enterprises need to innovate in their operations, products, services, as well as customer experience optimizations. In addition to being responsive to the increasingly demanding digital customer in the middle of a pandemic, the enterprise needs to be entrepreneurial through innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter Design Thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design Thinking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Kelly<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” <\/em>Steve Jobs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Design Thinking is a relatively new approach that helps organizations innovate through empathizing with their target customers, ideate, and quickly prototype with innovative solutions<\/a>. This is often followed by testing and deployment. The whole Design Thinking process is dynamic, with multiple continuous iterations between the phases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizations of all sizes need to focus on innovation with limited resources in budget, time, and talent. Design Thinking engages multiple disciplines and creates a prioritized backlog of innovative solutions – balancing ease of development, optimized customer experiences, market opportunities, and business value. Design Thinking engages various innovators to think big, think innovation, think digital \u2013 but start small.<\/a> Design Thinking involves design methods and processes<\/a>. Design Thinking helps organizations innovate by empathizing with their target customers, ideate, and quickly prototype innovative solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The success of entrepreneurs and founders in startups often depends not only on the innovation, the marketing, and sales strategy but also on the methodologies <\/em>from Ideation to Minimum Viable Products (MVP) and then productization. Design Thinking is one such methodology that could help balance innovation with achievable execution for success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article illustrates practices involving Design Thinking Methodology, Design Sprint, and Low Code\/No Code platforms for Minimum Viable Products (MVP) in a post-Covid-19 era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following illustrates the Design Thinking Methodology<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Design<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n