Design Thinking and Innovation teaches participants how to leverage fundamental design thinking principles and innovative problem-solving tools to address business challenges and build products, strategies, teams and environments for optimal use and performance.
Benefits
Develop an innovation mindset and toolkit that can be used to guide your team or organisation’s strategy
Discover frameworks and techniques that can be leveraged to bring new and innovative products or services to market
Create products and services that resonate with your audience by understanding and applying human-centred design
The HBS Online Edge
World-class faculty
Edge-of-your-seat online learning
Global peer collaboration and networking
Real world, case-based learning
Key Learnings
Approaching problems using structured methods of gathering observations, breaking cognitive fixedness and generating creative ideas for solutions
Applying creative solutions and behaviour analysis to innovation development and internal team processes
Developing a strategic innovation toolkit and learning when and how to apply design thinking and innovative problem-solving tools and exercises
Practicing empathy in applying a human-centred approach to design techniques such as user research, user experience, prototyping and journey mapping
Assessing group dynamics and improving team performance through tools and processes designed to enhance collaboration and iteration in development
Guiding teams to draw from a wide range of professional experiences and backgrounds, and creating stronger collaboration dynamics to improve their approach to innovation