On Friday October 31st 2014 a number of thought leaders from big Dutch and German corporations got together in SAP's Apphaus in Heidelberg. They discussed the role of desig nthinking in enhancing collaboration. This movie is a report of the event.

More and more, meaningful and profitable innovations take place in between departments, silos, companies and knowledge domains. That’s why successful innovation requires collaboration. Collaboration across the classical boundaries we know so well: between organizational silos, between hierarchical layers in the organization, between organizations and their suppliers, organizations and their customers, organizations and their competitors.

In designXchange 2 we wish to explore how design thinking and a designerly approach to problem solving can help enhance this collaboration. Together, we will explore and exchange experiences around the following questions:

1. How can organizations build collaborative ecosystems that invite and maintain boundary-spanning change?
2. What is the role of change agents, designers and design thinking in these ecosystems?
3. What sort of tools, boundary objects, methodologies and processes are required in boundary spanning collaborations?
4. What personal traits are required to build eco-systems that enhance these collaborations?

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