Design Thinking – Innovation Café
Do you need innovative solutions to tackle the critical business issues arising in your business? At Duke Corporate Education’s new virtual Innovation Cafe, you bring real business problems to the table and our seasoned experts will coach you and your team toward creative solutions.
Target Audience
- Senior leaders emerging from lockdown who want rethink their businesses in a creative way
- Leadership teams, EXCOs or MANCOs experiencing novel challenges in their business who want to generate creative solutions
- Project leads and teams that need to pivot or reconceptualize their projects from scratch
Learning Outcomes
- Understanding of design thinking processes and skills which can be applied to your business challenges
- Navigate ambiguity with new toolsets and skillsets
- Practice empathy to learn from others and their context
- Move between concrete and abstract thinking to understand stakeholders and purpose in defining solutions
- Synthesize information to find insights and create opportunities using abductive thinking
- Learn how to experiment rapidly and develop a minimum viable product (MVP)
- Develop and prototype solutions for your emerging markets
Programme Structure
We offer tailored virtual, instructor-led sessions. You choose the best option for your business:
- 90-minute, virtually-delivered Innovation Cafe for those new to design thinking
- Three-hour virtually-delivered Innovation Cafe and hands-on coaching through a real business challenge
- A business innovation hackathon (four 90-minute virtual instructor-led training sessions) which includes hands-on coaching through a real business challenge
Extraordinary Results
- Explore the principles of design and the process of design thinking to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test by means of a practical case study
- Develop creative, implementable solutions to your current and anticipated business problems
- Develop continuous, innovative thinking from your leaders and teams
- Build the skill of collective, inclusive ideation and innovation
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