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Design Thinking

By Khalid Zafar
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Duration

6 weeks

Language

English

Course Access

Limited

Certificate

On Completion

Design Thinking

By Khalid Zafar
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About this Course

The ability to identify novel problems and devise innovative solutions is just like any other skill that can be developed and refined with practice. This course offers a framework to understand innovation and develop lateral thinking. The course will focus on encouraging this process in a business environment with the objective of managing change within, and through, the organization and delivering creative solutions to improve the way things are done.

What will you learn

This course will help you define and identify innovation and enable you to picture creativity as part of a business environment. You’ll be able to apply creative tools within your work processes and enhance your team’s creative skills to provide innovative and impactful solutions for your consumers. With a focus on customer centric strategies, you’ll also discover methods to map out sustainable change within your organization.

Partners

The ability to identify novel problems and work innovative solutions, like any other skill, can be developed and refined with practice.

Course Outline

Week 1
This week, you will learn to create an “Innovation Strategy” to cater to the needs of your team as well as discover the purpose of creating one for the sustainability of your company.
Week 2
This week, you will learn how to pre-empt, drive and manage change as well as the benefits of having a innovation strategy in place to help in these processes.
Week 3
This week, you will get acquainted with the first and most crucial component of the design thinking process: Empathy. You will develop strategies to empathise with your target audience and build a set of personas for the unique products of your organization. In doing so, you will be able to identify the problem you are aiming to solve for the consumer.
Week 4
You will continue with the next few steps of the Design Thinking Process – Define, Ideate – and utilize tried and tested strategies to help generate innovative solutions to seemingly complex problems.
Week 5
This week, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the last stage of the Design Thinking Process – Delivery which entails developing prototypes of the solution you provide and testing it out on a sample of your target audience. You will also learn to refine the products based on the feedback received.
Week 6
This week, you will learn about Agile Delivery and Objective Governance and how these are used to map out transformation requirements including those in leadership and management. You will also be able to develop the strategies to sustain change within your team.

Instructors

Khalid Zafar

Director,
Haffurd Consulting

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