Half-day virtual session
Opening up new creative ideas and finding and implementing innovative solutions can give companies a competitive advantage.
This practical half-day virtual workshop introduces design thinking as a technique participants can use in their role. Participants will learn a structured methodology to understand problems and opportunities and generate ideas through iteration and prototyping.
Learning objectives
- Articulate the stages of the design thinking methodology
- Understand strategies for the Empathise, Define, Ideate, and Prototype phases
- Identify opportunities to apply design thinking in their role
- Build confidence in using design thinking to support their work
Format
Sessions are usually run on Zoom or Teams. Please let us know if you prefer a different platform.
Groups of up to 12 recommended, up to 20 if necessary. Please let us know if you have a larger group and we can tweak the session accordingly.
All participants receive a PDF of the slides, key learning points and pointers to further learning resources.
Sample timetable
9:00. Welcome and introduction
- Reflection on challenges to innovation
9:15. Introduction to design thinking
- Overview
- Value
9:30. Empathise phase
- Understanding the user
9:50. Define phase
- Framing problems effectively
10:10. Break
- Framing problems effectively
10:20. Ideate phase
- Generating creative ideas
10:40. Prototype phase
- Building quick models
11:00. Small group exercise
- Applying design thinking to a case study
