FACILITATING DESIGN THINKING ACTIVITIES USING MURAL- AN ONLINE TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING

Keywords: Design Thinking, MURAL visual collaboration tool, Creativity.

Abstract: With the aid of MURAL, a visual online team collaborative tool, this activity seeks to guide MOBTS participants to use design thinking to solve management problems innovatively and creatively. MURAL can be used in online undergraduate and graduate classes to innovatively address real life issues or analyze business and management case studies. Instructors can use MURAL effectively in Change Management classes, Business Ethics classes, Strategy Capstone classes, and Organizational Behavior classes. My purpose for this activity, is to employ the use of MURAL as a collaborative tool, to guide MOBTS conference participants to use the design thinking process to address a management problem and in doing so, explore their own capacity and identity to be an agent for change. Participants will learn to use MURAL effectively in management classroom settings.