Highlights
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Design of Business helps current and future executives innovate more successfully and consistently through design thinking.
Roger Martin’s, book The Design of Business:Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage explains that to innovate and win, companies need design thinking. This form of thinking is rooted in how knowledge advances from one stage to another—from mystery to heuristic, to algorithm. As knowledge advances across the stages, productivity grows and costs drop-creating massive value for companies.
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Business management guru Peter Drucker references Integrative Thinking curriculum as the most important advancement in business schools today.
Part of an integrative thinking seminar series held at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, moderated by Roger Martin.
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Thinkers 50: The definitive listing of the world’s top 50 business thinkers
The Times (London) and Forbes have named Roger Martin one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world. Created and compiled by Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer, the Thinkers 50 has established itself as the definitive bi-annual guide to which thinkers and ideas are in and which have been consigned to business history.
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Intuit’s Scott Cook shares his reflective management style and references Roger as the next Peter Drucker
As part of the Design/Management/Brand 21 conference, Roger Martin moderated a conversation with Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit, Inc.
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Roger Martin and Malcolm Gladwell exchange insight and humor.
Hosted at University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall, Roger Martin participated in a thought provoking discussion on Outliers, Malcolm’s new book on topics such as success and the 10,000 hour rule.
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Roger Martin discusses leadership and integrative thinking during his keynote address to the 2009 Skoll World Forum at Oxford
Roger shares how integrative thinking is the quality of top leaders, including President Obama in his inagurual speech.
Blog
DMI Conference in San Francisco
For the second straight year, I co-chaired the June DMI conference on De-Thinking design in San Francisco with my friend Darrel Rhea, CEO of Cheskin. It was terrific and I encourage everyone to watch for the video of the conference to go up in the next month.
Highlights for me included watching Roberto Verganti in action [...]
News & Events
New Article: Integrative Thinking for Executives
I’m often asked how people can learn more about integrative thinking and how they can develop their own integrative thinking abilities, short of coming to Rotman for an MBA. The short answer is this: Rotman’s Integrative Thinking Program. The program, which I developed with my colleague Jennifer Riel, is a three-day primer on integrative thinking. The next two [...]
April 7, 2010