Design Thinking

Emiko Kawabata's EMBA Year in Helsinki: How Finland Taught the Language of Leadership and the Courage to Embrace AIJapanese journalist and media executive Emiko Kawabata took a year off from her work at Tokyo-based broadcasting company and moved to Helsinki for ove...

What Are the Emerging Trends in Executive and Professional Education in 2026?This year Aalto EE experts see three trends rising globally: strategic learning partnerships, a renewed focus on uniquely human skills in the age of A...

Miklu Silvanto Has Worked with the World's Most Well-Known Brands: How Do You Nurture Creativity?Miklu Silvanto, Oura’s Chief Design Officer, offers an unexpected example of radical creativity from his former employer, Apple: a store where no one ...

"Think of the Impossible" – Leadership Also Develops Through the Methods of ArtA creatively thinking leader thrives well even in a constantly changing, uncertain environment. However, creativity needs boundaries and tools, as Ann...

Lauri Järvilehto: "It Makes Sense to Use AI for Tasks I Find Boring or Don't Know How to Do"We asked professor of practice Lauri Järvilehto, who also teaches in Aalto EE's programs, how he uses AI in tasks that call for creativity.

Design Thinking Gives You Tools to Dig DeeperDesign thinking is both a mindset and a toolkit for creating innovative solutions to complicated problems. It can also be used to develop a better emp...

Hands-on Innovation in the Design Thinking Capital of the WorldAalto EE's Innovation Challenge Program gave a team of LG Electronics' designers, engineers, and content planners a crash course in product and servic...

Design Thinking and BeyondDesign Thinking has been a buzz word for quite some time. How have companies actually been applying it?