IBM offers a comprehensive set of tools such as their IBM Design Thinking Toolkit to help you structure your creative problem solving work sessions better. Some of the tools are free, but the full set has to be paid for. IBM has been working successfully on developing Design Thinking tools for practical problem solving applications for many years.

In 2009, IDEO designed and launched the IDEO Human Centered Design (HCD )Toolkit, a first-of-its-kind book that laid out how and why human-centered design can impact the social sector.

The Public Libraries in Aarhus (Denmark) and Chicago (USA), with funding from the Gates Foundation, created the Design Thinking for Libraries toolkit to introduce a way of working that will help you understand the needs of your patrons and engage your communities like never before. We understand that the challenges facing librarians are real, complex and varied.