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title: The Ultimate Guide to Design Thinking
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# [The Ultimate Guide to Design Thinking](https://blog.convergentis.com/ultimate-guide-to-design-thinking)

 Written by [ConvergentIS](https://blog.convergentis.com/author/convergentis) | Aug 30, 2022 3:59:59 PM

Despite the fact that design thinking has been present for about 50 years, it has recently gained more popularity as businesses have come to understand its enormous worth.

Design-led businesses have outperformed the S&P 500 by 211 percent over the past ten years.

This statistic demonstrates that businesses are firmly devoted to basing their technologies, goods, and services on people.

Then what exactly is [design thinking](https://convergentis.com/design-thinking-sap-apphaus)?

Using the definition from SAP, design thinking is a five-step process starting with "Explore," a step where users look for innovative opportunities. The process then continues with the "Discover" phase, in which users attempt to gain a deep understanding of their clients and, more specifically, the client's end user's needs. Following Discovery, users will move onto the "Design" phase, a step where users look at creating a prototype of the solution. With a prototype in hand, teams look at "delivering" functional solutions that have productive use. Finally, with a process set for success, teams will run and scale their solution across a larger organization.

But what do these five steps mean when put into practice? We consider each in more detail in the free guide below.

 

 

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