This document discusses key concepts from the book "Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation" by Idris Mootee. It provides 20 messages about applying design thinking in business. Some of the main points include: - Design thinking helps make sense of complex connections between people, places, objects, events and ideas. - It promotes empathy and puts users at the core. - Tools like storytelling, strategic foresight, sensemaking, and experience design can help with growth strategy, planning, managing change, and overcoming competition. - Humanizing customer touchpoints can balance standardization with innovation. - Rapid prototyping allows organizations to fail fast and learn early.