Why the Failure of Systems Thinking Should Inform the Future of Design Thinking (06.07.09)

Fred Collopy is a professor of Design and Innovation at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management, where he has been a member of the faculty since completing his PhD in Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He co-edited the book Managing as Designing (Stanford University Press, 2004). He has designed several large systems including one of the earliest personal data managers, The Desk Organizer (Warner Software), Rule-Based Forecasting (an expert system for selecting among forecasting models), Business Animator (an interactive visual representation of accounting and financial information), and Imager (an instrument for playing abstract graphics as musicians play abstract sounds).