Design Thinker | Experience Innovation
Focus: Achieving advantage via innovation
Time: Half or full-day classroom experience
Tags: Design thinking, IDEO, creativity, innovation, sustainability
The town of Los Verdes is tackling a complex challenge - increasing sustainable behavior among its citizens. By practicing design thinking, you will unearth latent opportunities and develop breakthrough solutions that will make Los Verdes a "green" exemplar.
Built in collaboration with innovation and design firm IDEO, Design Thinker confers competitive advantage by helping you...
- See new opportunities consistently.
- Connect deeply with customers.
- Transform insights and data into actionable ideas.
- Create and implement new solutions with business impact faster and more effectively.
In an energizing workshop, teams flex their design thinking skills to solve a realistic and complex challenge. In so doing, they engage with the terms, techniques and thought patterns of successful innovators. Participants leave ready and able to effect meaningful change back on-the-job.
Design Thinker is a product of our collaboration with IDEO, a global innovation and design firm that uses design thinking to create positive impact for business and society.
Design thinking is about accelerating innovation to create better solutions to the challenges facing business and society. It starts with people-what we call human centered design-and applies creative tools, the tools of design, like prototyping, experimentation and storytelling to deliver new breakthrough innovations.
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