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Dr Stuart English

A specialist in design thinking and design driven innovation, Dr Stuart English is Associate Professor in Design and the lead academic on Northumbria University’s Design Management MA. His research has initiated new methods, new products and new IP through an inclusive approach based on design led enterprise. Dr English started his career in design in the 1980s, training as an industrial designer before going on to practise with Design4 Plastics, SilentNight Holdings and Joyce Loebl. He then joined Marchant Filer Dixon, working as a consultant industrial designer, before co-founding his own consultancy – Glenelg Product Design in 1990.

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Five ways to implement design thinking in your business

Now more than ever, the power of design thinking is being recognised. From Airbnb and Netflix to Tesla and Samsung, companies are looking to this ideology to change the way they view business problems, using it as a catalyst to introduce customer-focused design that works.

Does design thinking hold the key to business growth during COVID-19?

With the IMF warning that the ‘Great Lockdown’ global recession will be the worst since the Great Depression, organisations are being forced to reset and reinvent faster than ever before. The race is on for entrepreneurs and business owners to craft new plans, develop new products and deliver new solutions in order to survive.