Apply Design Thinking to Build Empathy With the Business

IT often manages stakeholders who don’t know how to articulate what they want. Requirements often say what the business needs, but rarely does discussion about the...
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Apply Design Thinking to Build Empathy With the Business – Executive Brief

Read this Executive Brief follow our methodology of discovering the hidden needs of the business and developing solutions that solve business problems.

Apply Design Thinking to Build Empathy With the Business – Phases 1-2

This storyboard will help you design IT processes and services that satisfy the business's true needs and drive high business satisfaction with IT.

Apply Design Thinking to Build Empathy With the Business – Phase 1: Research

This phase of the blueprint, Research, will help you target your experience design efforts towards IT's most impactful stakeholders and structure interviews to gain...

Stakeholder Discovery Interview Template

Use this template to structure and record the outputs of stakeholder interviews that you conduct. You may modify the questions as needed or read the questions verbatim to...

Apply Design Thinking to Build Empathy With the Business – Phase 2: Map and Iterate

This phase will walk you through creating the first iteration of your journey map, creating hypotheses, and collecting the necessary data to test your hypotheses and...

Journey Map Template

Use this template to document the journey maps you create in working sessions with your design team.

Research Study Log Tool

Use this tool to design a stakeholder research study and record your observations to validate your stakeholder journey map.

CIO Trend Report 2017

Trend reports can provide an academic outlook as to what is happening in the technology landscape, but not much else. CIOs need a framework to develop concrete insight...

CIO Trends Report 2017 – Executive Brief

Read our introduction to the 2017 CIO Trends Report that contains summaries of our eight key trends.
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