7 Ways a Design Sprint Can Help Your Organization | Innovation

The Google Ventures Design Sprint is not just for validating ideas, but also for accelerating learning and delivering innovation in organizations. Here are seven ways to use the Design Sprint to improve your organization's design thinking process: 1) Find your A-team by launching an Innovation Week for colleagues to submit ideas and work on solutions together, 2) break down walls between departments to achieve real solutions through collaboration, 3) go beyond easy challenges and focus on tough strategic issues, 4) help teams test assumptions before launch through prototyping, 5) show your team "innovation in action" through hands-on Sprint methodology training, 6) involve customers by testing ideas with real user feedback, and 7) use the Sprint to test high-risk ideas in a safe environment.