Design thinking

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Author(s)
Brown, T.
Pages
6pp
Date published
01 Jan 2008
Publisher
Harvard Business Review
Type
Articles
Keywords
Innovation

Thomas Edison created the electric lightbulb and then wrapped an entire industry around it. The lightbulb is most often thought of as his signature invention, but Edison understood that the bulb was little more than a parlor trick without a system of electric power generation and transmission to make it truly useful. So he created that, too.