INNOVATION TRAINING

This high-energy course will give you an advanced understanding of Design Thinking principles, tools & methods. The focus of this course is learning by doing experience, using various design thinking tools such as trend map, service safari, journey mapping and prototyping, targeting ideation.

During this course we will discuss the following topics: design thinking origin and main schools, design thinking principles, process and methods, how design thinking can help you to develop innovation culture and strategy within your organization and which traits you need to build in order to implement design thinking. 

WHAT WE CAN ACHIEVE TOGETHER: 

PROCESS AND TOOLS. During this course you will learn the essential design thinking skills and gain a general understanding on how to use method tools for innovation team management and coaching.

CREATIVE LEADERSHIP. You will learn how to use design thinking principles and tools for group or team collaboration, project management as well as you will improve your creative leadership skills.

DESIGN THINKING CULTURE. You will work on an actual project and gain expertise in creating design-thinking culture within your team or organization.

TEAM PERFORMANCE. You will be able to improve team performance and boost its results while working on design thinking assignments.

Customer insights are the engine of each meaningful innovation. Understanding your end-users’ needs and jobs to be done should be at the heart of every innovation project. During this energetic and hands on workshop you will learn how to apply user-centered techniques to find the desired solutions to your target audience that solve their challenges and fit naturally into their daily life.

The workshop sessions we conduct vary depending on the complexity of the project and are bespoke to deliver on the required business needs and innovation goals. Our facilitators focus on expanding your team’s creative capacity for innovation building by promoting space for conversation and collaboration.

WHAT WE CAN ACHIEVE TOGETHER: 

USER NEEDS. Learn how to spot meaningful trends, insights and customers’ stories to understand their desired needs.

EMPATHY. Gain empathy with your customers and their needs. Trend analysis, user stories, ethnographic research help you to know your audience face to face, learn about the environment they live in, build relations and leave the doors open for future conversations. 

DEFINE. By analysing users’ stories, service safari and research data we will identify the main challenges at hand and user-driven insights to tackle. We will help your team to learn how to set priorities for innovation and align them with the business main strategy goals.

IDEATE. Ideation phase based on sensorial, visual, music inspirations will help your team to think both incremental and disruptive innovation ideas.

PROTOTYPE. In this course you will learn how to test your ideas quickly. We believe opportunities for innovation happen when you test and validate your ideas quickly. By doing the right things you will do things right. Innovation is not about ideas only, but about implemented ideas.

Design Sprint 2.0, created after the design-thinking framework, is a step-by-step guide applied to product, service development issues. A design sprint is best intended for big, radical business challenges, product, service development issues or business model shift. 

During the Design Sprint training participants will work on problem framing, emphasising phase, problem worth solving selection, ideation, prototype building and testing phases. In this course, participants will work on a real challenge and will use Design Sprint tools to solve it. 

WHAT WE CAN ACHIEVE TOGETHER: 

DESIGN SPRINT PROCESS AND TOOLS. Participants will learn Design Sprint process, workflow and they will learn how to use all the needed tools to facilitate the Design Sprint themselves.

IDEATION AND VISUALIZATION SKILLS. This course members will train their ideation and visualization skills during various sprint activities. 

FAST PROTOTYPING SKILLS. During the workshop there will be an opportunity to try different prototyping tools and create, test and evaluate your ideas with users.

INTERNAL FACILITATOR. After the training participants will be able to facilitate their own Design Sprint. 

MULTIFUNCTIONAL TEAM. Participants will work in multifunctional teams where they will learn how to collaborate and innovate putting together different attitudes and worldviews.