Although Design Thinking can trace its roots back to the 1960s, in recent years the strategy has really come to the forefront. Today, Design Thinking is gaining broad recognition as an essential strategy in traditional design disciplines as well as a variety of other fields, like business. Design thinking is transforming workflows for everyone from amateur designers to corporate design professionals, and promising benefits like reduced risk, faster product development and deeper market insights.

While Design Thinking, based on the five founding principles of empathy, definition, ideation, prototype and test, has steadily gained ground as a crucial strategy; securing buy-in for the concept and effectively integrating the strategy to drive ROI is often easier said than done.

Ahead of the Design Thinking Victoria Summit 2019 we take a look at how four business organisations – Facebook (USA), NAB, Tabcorp and USAA (USA) – worked to secure buy-in, and have successfully integrated Design Thinking to streamline and optimise product creation.