IDEO is one of the largest and most important American design and consulting companies. Starting as an industrial design and interaction design studio (one of the founders was Bill Modgidge), IDEO has extended its consulting services to compete with business consulting companies like McKinsey.
What differs IDEO from the others is approach based on using the same tools while designing products - such as user’s observation, context of use analysis, prototyping and iterative process - for developing business and marketing strategy.
How design thinking can help building strategy?