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Masters Corporate Education: CS102 Design Thinking Certificate Course

Design Thinking Certificate Course


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About This Course

2020 has given us an important lesson: if there is one skill that is important in today’s business arena it is the ability to quickly adjust to new situations. Knowing which direction is the right direction to adjust into is the hardest bit. Design thinking provides you with a toolkit to build out a compass that will guide this or any other problem solving process: starting with what people need.

The reality of our world is very simple: people don’t want to buy your specific products, they just have a problem they are trying to solve. Those who learn how to work backwards from customer pain points, by first understanding them and then aligning their organisations towards the users, will be the only successful companies in the new digital era.

World’s leading and most profitable brands, such as Amazon, Toyota, Apple, Google, Samsung, Starbucks, Nike, Netflix, and GE, have rapidly adopted the Design Thinking approach. The design thinking process can be strategically implemented across various industries to solve complex problems, develop new products and services. Hence, upskilling the workforce with design thinking and problem-solving skills is not an option for companies; it’s a necessity during these unprecedented times.

Learn the main principles and methods of the most famous user-centred innovation methodology Design Thinking, apply these methods directly to your current situation, team, project or organisation in order to rethink your product portfolio – what stays, what goes, what needs to be reinvented.

Get closer to your customers by building up a solid set of instruments in the areas of user research, idea generation and prototyping Learn to synthesize and analyze emerging customer insights Experiment with different creative techniques to initiate, control and moderate creative process Use creative-problem solving to address your company’s specific needs

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In this program you will learn to

  • Get closer to your customers by building up a solid set of instruments in the areas of user research, idea generation and prototyping
  • Learn to synthesize and analyze emerging customer insights
  • Experiment with different creative techniques to initiate, control and moderate creative process
  • Use creative-problem solving to address your company’s specific needs

The course will be delivered in a participative, co-creative team process with participants from different disciplines and industries.

As a graduate of this course, you will be empowered with in-depth knowledge of the most important components of design thinking and have an individual strategy for integrating design thinking into your company and leveraging its principles to solve all kinds of business problems.

Registrations are open now for a batch of 25 participants.
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Target audience

  1. Strategy, transformation, product & innovation leaders and teams
  2. R&D teams that want to build deeper disruption innovation capabilities
  3. Executives & Decision Makers who want to develop their potential and position their team well while facing disruptive industry trends or large-scale transformation challenges
  4. Entrepreneurs exploring ways to pivot their company or ways to obtain customer insights to build a product or service around

Program Structure

Level 1: Design Thinking Beginner

Exploring User Centered Mindset
3 sessions 2 Hour each + Moderated session for discussion

level 2: Design Thinking Practitioner

Experimenting with Innovation
4 sessions 2 hour each + 2 Mentoring webinars/discussions

level 3: Design Thinking Guru (Sprinter) (Master) (Expert)

Implementing Disruptive Solutions
5 sessions - 2.5 hours each + 3 Mentoring sessions

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this course. Good Communication skills and ability to work in team environment should be sufficient

Course faculty

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Anastasia Gramatchikova

Anastasia is an experienced Lead Coach, Digital Strategist, Lecturer on Design Thinking and Conference Speaker, Anastasia focus on user-centered Innovation, Digital Transformation and Change Management. Classical musical graduate turned in to Digital Communication specialist with MA in Digital Communication she is obtained her Design Thinking certification at the HPI Design School in Potsdam. Anastasia is passionate about human potential, creativity and usercentered approach. Her professional challenge is to inspire people for solutions that change someone's life; to encourage them to leave the comfort zone and to experience transformation and self-awareness

Anastasia's work mainly lies around

  • Teaching on Innovation methods with a focus on design thinking
  • Facilitation of change processes in large and medium organizations
  • Consulting of entrepreneurs and leaders around their marketing and product strategy

Her expertise

Innovation management | embodiment | visualization | facilitation | lean | agile | design thinking | team dynamics | creative collaboration | coaching | rhetoric art | marketing | NLP | rapid prototyping

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Rita Maksimtseva

Driven by an incessant search for a better way of doing things, Rita believes that Design Thinking is the most pragmatic yet organic methodology to achieve efficiency. Why? There is nothing more useless than automating tasks that need not be done at all and there is nothing more costly than developing features, improvements or entire product suites that customers do not need. Certified by the design thinking alma mater IDEO Rita has been intuitively practicing the mindset and customer-centric approach for the last 10 years. Design Thinking to Rita is a common language for professionals who believe in the same vision: people at the center of a process and customers at the center of a product.

Her work mainly lies around

  • Designing better organisational structures driven by digital transformation
  • Designing processes to scale growth through efficient operations and automation
  • Reimagining product & people strategy by research and discovery of customer needs

Rita’s Expertise

Teaching about innovation methods with a focus on design thinking - facilitating change processes in large and medium organizations - consulting entrepreneurs and leaders around their marketing and product strategy behavioral psychology | customer insights | automated research | machine-learning | text classification | natural language processing | entity resolution | compliance | KYC, and risk management | data & content strategy | inclusive leadership | employee-centric organisations

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