Design Thinking & Innovation
Course Overview
Design thinking is demarcated as an analytic and creative method that involves opportunities to experiment, create and prototype models, gather feedback, and redesign. It provides a creative and solution-based approach to solving problems.
From a large organization’s business perspective, design thinking ideally should involve a cross-functional team working collaboratively in through process by Understanding of the challenges, gaining new insights into their customers’; synthesizing these into directions for innovation; generating various ideas on how to address them; building first prototypes, and testing them again, ideally at the workplace.
This programme aims to address these steps. It aims to enable the attendees to view problems from a larger perspective and acquire the skills & knowledge to reach the roots of the problems, utilize the newly acquired skills to analyse and create best solutions using design thinking process. Participants will be introduced to design thinking processes and identify ways to use these processes as a creative tool to develop process improvements prototypes which they can apply and test at their actual workplace.
Course Objective
- Apply the design thinking process and tools to develop solutions to problem(s) encountered at the workplace.
Target Audience
All levels.
Modules:
Unit 1: Introduction to Design Thinking
- What is Design Thinking?
- Why Is Design Thinking Important?
- 3 Essential Pillars of Design Thinking
- Areas where Design Thinking can be applied
- Using Design Thinking to Innovate
- The Role of Design Thinking in Innovation
- What We Mean by Innovation?
- How Innovation Happens?
- Innovation Tools – When to use each tool?
- What does it look like to be good at design thinking?
- The Non-Linear Nature of Design Thinking
- Aligning design thinking with organization’s direction
- The Takeaway & Implementation
- Evaluation
- Measuring success of prototypes
Unit 2: Design Thinking Process – 5 Stages
- Empathise
- What is the Empathise Mode
- Why Empathise
- Transition: Empathise to Define
- Define (the Problem)
- What is the Define Mode
- Why Define
- How to Define
- Transition: Define to Ideate
- Ideate
- What is the Ideate Mode
- Why Ideate
- How to Ideate
- Maximize Your Innovation Potential
- Transition: Ideate to Prototype
- Resources – Capitalize on available resources
- Prototype
- What is the Prototype Mode
- Why Prototype
- How to Prototype
- Transition: Prototype to Test
- Test
- What is Test Mode
- Why to Test
- How to Test
- Iteration and Making the Process Your Own
Unit 3: Personal Development Plan