Design Thinking and Innovation 

Design Thinking and Innovation 

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

Eligibility

Minimum age of 18, English proficiency