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Explore a curated collection of Tim Brown’s media, including seminal articles from Harvard Business Review, Tim’s latest fireside chats, and podcasts that cover a breadth of topics that range from stories about companies outperforming their peers by embedding design and creativity into the fabric of their organizations, to those that are transforming the systems they operate in to have a positive impact on the world.
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Tim Brown Selected Publications & Media
SELECTED ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
“Design Thinking” included in one of HBR’s most influential and innovative articles in HBR at 100.
Published in 2022, Harvard Business Review
celebrated 100 years as the foremost destination for smart management thinking. Brown is featured alongside business publishing's most influential voices, including Clayton M. Christensen, Gary Hamel and Peter F. Drucker.
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Duration: 20 minutes
We should design businesses like circles, not straight lines.
Brown posits that our modern industrial economy was based on a straight line—a linear progression of make, use, dispose. What would happen if we took that line and bent it into a circle?
Duration: 5 minutes
Is It Time to Reimagine the C-Suite?
Brown and Derek Robson propose
that the current structure for leading companies may no longer be sustainable.
Published in the SHRM Executive Network’s People + Strategy journal
Duration: 5 minutes
He Prizes Questions More Than Answers.
This interview with Tim Brown, the chief executive and president of IDEO, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant for The Corner Office.
Duration: 3 minutes
Design
for Action.
Brown and Roger L. Martin illustrate how design thinking principles have the potential to be even more powerful when applied to managing the intangible challenges involved in getting people, and stakeholders, to engage with and adopt innovative new ideas and experiences
Duration: 8 minutes
When Everyone Is Doing Design Thinking, Is It Still an Advantage?
Brown argues that in order to create sustained competitive advantage, businesses must be not just practitioners of Design Thinking, but seek creative mastery at all levels of their business.
Duration: 3 minutes
Why Social Innovators Need Design Thinking.
Brown argues that in order to create sustained competitive advantage, Among other ideas, Brown shares how building to think, considering the whole business as a design challenge, and asking good questions are the keys to unlocking intractable challenges, from failing education systems to chronic health pandemics.
Duration: 4 minutes
5 Reasons Global Firms Should Serve The Developing World
Brown argues that in order to create sustained competitive advantage, businesses must be not just practitioners of Design Thinking, but seek creative mastery at all levels of their business.
Duration: 3 minutes
Change by Design, Revised and Updated, Shows How the Techniques and Strategies of Design Belong at Every Level of Business
Change by Design is not a book by designers for designers; it is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization, product, or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.
Tales of Creativity
& Play
At the 2008 Serious Play conference, Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play.
SELECTED TALKS & VIDEOS
Opening Remarks, Clinton Global Initiative Conference, Designing for Impact
A conversation between Tim Brown and Linda Tischler of FastCompany where they discuss the need to deeply know and understand the communities we serve to design for them.
The Evolution of Design Thinking: Tim Brown's Vision for Impactful Change
In conversation with Cleveland Clinic CEO Tomislav Mihaljevic, Tim Brown explores human-centered design's global impact. He highlights how an empathetic, collaborative approach can tackle healthcare, education, and sustainability challenges.
Exploring the Impact and Future of AI in Design
Tim Brown discusses AI's potential and challenges in creative fields. He advocates thoughtful human-AI collaboration to enhance design and manage disruptions.
Everyone a Creator with Gary Hamel
Tim Brown joins Gary Hamel on his podcast, The New Human Movement to discuss how to build a deep capacity for innovation in our organizations.
HUMANOCRACY
Tim Brown urges designers to think big
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking."
PODCASTS