Reimagining Problems to Create Smarter, Faster Solutions

Design Thinking Matters.  Companies and leaders today need new ways to solve new challenges and seize opportunities faster to stay ahead. Design Thinking is a process and a capability that transforms how we think, work and reimagine how we solve a wide range of problems and deliver value to customers, external and internal. It can be applied to products, services and processes. It provides a structure to navigate complexity and, in the process, builds creative adaptive problem solving leaders and teams.

At Duke Corporate Education, we work with your leaders or teams to infuse this capability in your organization by engaging your leaders or teams in a real world problem-based workshop customized for your organization.

“The dominant idea behind strategy – establishing a sustainable source of competitive advantage – is becoming irrelevant. We need a new playbook to compete and win when competitive advantages are transient. Companies need to get better at figuring out what people really need and will pay for, at designing better experiences and wrestling new efficiencies from existing assets.”

-Rita McGrath

Our Partner: Justin Ferrell
Creator, collaborator and educator

Justin Ferrell

An experienced teacher, facilitator and creative practitioner, Justin has led innovation sessions for prominent organizations including Colgate-Palmolive, Dow Jones, Facebook, Fidelity Investments, Google, HP, Infosys, Nedbank, NRK, SAP, The Aspen Institute, The New York Times, The United Nations, the U.S. Department of State and the World Economic Forum. He also teaches execu­tives at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has worked with executive education programs at Aalto Univer­sity in Finland and EGADE Business School in Mexico. The former director of digital, mobile and new product design at The Washington Post, Justin also teaches graduate courses in design thinking and organization design at the Institute of Design at Stanford (“the d.school”).

Workshop

Design Thinking offers a five-step process to help your leaders reimagine and reframe problems to create smarter, user-centered solutions.

The problem-based experiential workshop equips leaders or teams with the design tools, critical skills and mindset to navigate complexity, see and seize new opportunities, and lead differently. The workshop provides a fun and fast-paced way to build the innovative capacity of your leaders and teams.

Contact us to book your workshop today!