Mastering Design Thinking in Organizations

As part of this course, experienced DT practitioners were invited to share success stories of the different implementation strategies their organizations adopted when implementing design thinking. Besides that, they shared with us the critical cultural and organizational changes that were necessary to make that happen, such as, how to EMPOWER employees to use DT, how to ENACT DT in different industries, and how you can PROVE that DT works. Finally, the practice will then be complemented with academic talks concerning the most recent theoretical developments in the area of design thinking and innovation research.

If you are curious to know about how organizations are leading through design and their paths to achieve sustainable innovation, enroll for this course. We will guide you throughout this fascinating journey, which is promoting organizational change through design!

Course Week 1

Lecture Unit 1: The importance of design to digital innovation (Introduction)

Lecture Unit 2: Using design as a driver for innovation strategy (Strategy)

Lecture Unit 3: Leadership as enablement (Leadership)

Lecture Unit 4: Curating and enacting design thinking (Process & Practices)

Lecture Unit 5: Exploring the implementation of design thinking (Application Areas)

Course Week 2

Lecture Unit 6: Building long-term internal design capabilities (education & training)

Lecture Unit 7: Case for Innovation in Large Organisations ( Business Model)

Lecture Unit 8: Creating innovative spaces and the dream team (Spaces & Team Composition)

Lecture Unit 9: Developing design thinking further (Impact & Measurement)

Lecture Unit 10: Combining Design Thinking with AI and Data Engineering