Innovating Through Design Thinking — Online
Apply the power of design thinking for business growth
Overview
An organization’s ability to innovate – whether it's creating seamless and enjoyable customer journeys, radically new products and services, or breakthrough business models – is critical to long-term success. Innovation is about solving important, challenging problems in creative and value-creating ways. Design thinking is a practical toolkit for innovation that anyone can learn and apply. Innovating through design thinking represents a structured, human-centred method for creatively solving complex problems that inspire and delight users. In this program, you will learn the core principles and tools of design thinking and how to apply them across your organization to help it innovate and grow.
Key Benefits & Takeaways
- Discover design thinking and the types of problems it helps solve
- Develop an empathetic mindset – understanding the problem from the user’s perspective
- Generate deep insights to reframe your understanding of the problem
- Apply ideation – rapid generation and refinement of concepts for solutions
- Move from concepts to potential solutions by prototyping
- Learn to test and validate solutions through the design thinking process
This program is designed for managers, executives, engineers, and entrepreneurs who need a toolkit for innovation. Participants will learn how to provide more impactful, advanced, and sustainable solutions to complex problems in the business world.
The registration fee includes facilitation by our highly-rated faculty members, a comprehensive digital workbook, results-oriented exercises, and a certificate of completion from the McGill Executive Institute.
Topics covered during the program
- Core elements of design thinking
- When is design thinking useful
- Problems amenable to design thinking
- Three Types of Challenges for innovation
- Insights from Extreme users
- Customer personas
- Distribution of ideas
- IDEO’s Brainstorming Rules: Seven Important Rules
- A toolkit for innovative ideas
- Generating tools and approaches for properly testing and exploring ideas before investing too many resources
- Evaluation criteria
- IDEO Design thinking framework
- Understand user’s POV: Immerse, Observe, Engage
- Solving the wrong problems precisely
- Seeing through new eyes
- Finalizing your action plan to implement on the job
The Online Experience
- Flexible Format; Featuring a combination of live instructor-led sessions and self-paced, on-demand learning, content is time released to allow for the best real-time application and transfer of new skills, tools and frameworks.
- Action-Learning Approach; Content, activities and experiences are relevant and immediately applicable to your day-to-day back at work.
- Enriched Curriculum; New multimedia content created and curated to align with different learning styles.
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Jared is a Senior Consultant, he regularly provides training to executives of various organizations as well as professional and graduate students. He has led workshops, seminars, and guests lectures at the McGill University’s Executive Institute, Desautels Faculty of Management, and Max Bell School of Public Policy; at Queen’s University’s Smith School of Business; and at Concordia University’s John Molson Executive Centre. Topics have included strategic thinking, problem-solving, design thinking and innovation, structured communication, business presentations, data analysis and visualization, and change leadership. 
Catherine is passionate about helping leaders and organizations adapt to new challenges and develop their full potential. She currently works as a Senior Consultant. She advises clients in a range of industries with a focus on strategic planning and execution, negotiation capability building and managing complex relationships. Her experience spans multiple industries, including AI, energy, investment, pharmaceutical, legal, technology, entertainment, finance, governmental, engineering and multiple countries in the Americas, Asia and Europe.