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This module aims at helping participants to uncover innovation opportunities within their organisations – to look at problems and situations with a user-centric mindset; to think differently to search for novel alternatives to existing solutions and to embrace an experimental attitude to iteratively discover what is truly useful, feasible and viable. Such skills are at the heart of good design, and they actually can be learned and honed.

What You'll Learn

At the end of the 2-day module, participants will be able to:

Understand how design thinking can provide a foundation for innovation;
Acquire user-centric mindset and fundamental creative skills to put uncover innovation opportunities;
Practise design thinking methods such as consumer research, prototyping, journey mapping, co-creation;
Develop managerial action plans in embedding design thinking in the organisation;
Gain confidence in dealing with uncertainty and developing innovation capabilities in the organisation