Digitization of the Design Thinking Process Solving Problems with Geographically Dispersed Teams.

In a globalized world, collaboration within geographically dispersed team members is becoming more important due to the possibilities given by information systems and the increase in productivity of knowledge workers. Design Thinking is a creative innovation method that is originally performed to enable participants to collaborate successfully in analog workshops. By referring to this initial situation, we hypothesize that a virtual Design Thinking platform can be at least as effective for generating creative innovations as an analog one, if the platform and the underlying processes are designed in an adequate way that enables collaboration and communication.