Design Thinking for Innovation
About this Course
Today innovation is everyone’s business. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur starting up, in a government role, or a teacher in an elementary school, everyone is expected to get lean – to do better with less. And that is why we all need design thinking. At every level in every kind of organization, design thinking provides the tools you need to become an innovative thinker and uncover creative opportunities that are there – you’re just not seeing them yet.
In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, we provide an overview of design thinking and work with a model containing four key questions and several tools to help you understand design thinking as a problem-solving approach. We also look at several stories from different organizations that used design thinking to uncover compelling solutions.
What You Will Learn
- What design thinking is and when to use it
- How to prepare to see and take action when the opportunity arises
- How to use design thinking to generate innovative ideas
- How to take the many ideas you generate and determine which ones are likely to produce specific, desired outcomes
Skills You Will Gain
- Strategic Thinking
- Design Thinking
- Innovation Management
- Design Management
- Innovation
