Design Thinking for Innovation

Walter Brenner is the managing director of the Institute of Information Management at the University of St.Gallen. He has been working in the area of IT and innovation for more than 30 years. Walter Brenner discovered Design Thinking as an important approach to innovation for the University of St.Gallen and has been collaborating in this field with Stanford for 10 years, now.Falk Uebernickel is assistant professor at the Institute of Information Management at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He started his professional Design Thinking career in 2008 and teaches the Masters Design Thinking course together with Stanford University and is conducting projects and executive lectures at various companies like FIFA, Audi, Clariant, SAP, UBS, Deutsche Bank, RBS, Allianz, Merck, Telecom Austria Group, Swisscom, and ThyssenKrupp

• Part 1: Introduction from the Editors.- Part 2: Contributions from Teaching and Research.- Part 3: Contributions from Practice.