Design Thinking crash course

Found a nifty summary of the Hasso Plattner d school @ Stanford design thinking methodology……location can be found here and covers in rapid fashion the interaction and iterations used for design thinking…..as shown in the image below.

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Design thinking focuses on innovation by combining creative and analytical methods and pushes collaboration across technology, business and human values disciplines with a bias toward action.

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Does this approach serve as a backdrop and/or as a enabler to “digitization” of business processes?