complete the chart to determine whether your opportunity is appropriate for design thinking once you have worked through the chart filling in each area and answering the questions if you opportunity is not appropriate for design thinking choose anothe

*please note that these learning resources will take substantial time to complete.

- - - - Review companies with an HR Department in order to better understand the role they play in large and small companies, different type of companies, domestic and international companies, and companies that provide a product and ones that provide a service. You should choose a minimum of 4 companies of different types.

- - - - Using the book, The Designing for Growth Field Book, and information gathered from you investigations and interviews, you are ready to identify an opportunity, an area that you want to strategically address related to human resources. (See Step 1 in the book for detailed directions)
        
        Write down an area of opportunity you think you might want to explore. This could be a new compensation plan, a plan for outsourcing, a plan for a major layoff of employees with a site closing, or any area you would like to address.
      - Complete the chart to determine whether your opportunity is appropriate for design thinking. Once you have worked through the chart, filling in each area and answering the questions, if you opportunity is not appropriate for design thinking, choose another and go through the process again.