Analytic tools for design thinking development.

Abstract

To support sustainable development of production and business, university graduates must be equipped with advanced and effective analytic and digital tools. That means educators need to introduce the tools while training students. As the main focus of any educational program nowadays is on the developed ability to solve problems and come with new effective ways and methods, it is obviously that the process of students’ design thinking skills development is becoming vital. The fact, that a business activity is getting more innovative, requires well developed skills of generating new ideas and bringing them to reality. Therefore, a university graduate is being oriented on the development of analytic, convergent and divergent thinking as well as entrepreneur mindset. These days any project includes multidisciplinary environment which significantly influences professional approaches, methods and instruments. For example, experts in production usually deal with technology, equipment and special applications. That means the designing approaches are changing according to the needs of the modern market and along with emerging technologies.