Accelerate a real business project in a design sprint
Overview
Help your team save time, money and effort by tackling the right problems worth solving.
ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply is a multi-module, facilitated workshop designed to help teams make rapid, meaningful progress on real organizational challenges. Developed in collaboration with IDEO, this immersive action-learning experience equips learners with design thinking tools and methodologies to get to the heart of their customer needs.
With its flexible format, this workshop adapts to any of your business objectives and program lengths. Whether you’re focused on leadership development, problem-solving intervention or process excellence, ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply helps you deliver immediate impact, measurable ROI and sustained growth long after the program ends.
Key Learning Outcomes
- Get to the root of user needs by conducting empathy interviews with real users.
- Discover impactful business opportunities by turning user data into deep insights.
- Generate breakthrough ideas by brainstorming and prototyping high-potential ideas.
- Develop and test solutions by running experiments of prototypes in the field.
Participant Profile
Ideal for leaders at any stage of their career—from corporate leaders and project teams to executive education cohorts—ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply accelerates projects by helping your learners sidestep common pitfalls, streamline efforts and deliver actionable solutions.
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Course Breakdown
Learn and practice design thinking
Dive into the tools and methodology of human-centered design and hone skills through an engaging simulation.
Conduct user research
Engage in real-world observation and user interviews to uncover meaningful insights.
Synthesize data into opportunities
Analyze interview data to extract deep insights and frame focused, high-impact opportunities.
Generate breakthrough ideas
Turn those opportunities into high-potential solutions by using brainstorming techniques and collaborative problem-solving.
Create prototypes and iterate
Build and refine quick prototypes to test and explore concepts based on peer feedback.
Experiment in the real world
Design and run learning-oriented experiments in the field and test assumptions with real users.
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Training You Can Trust
ExperiencePoint’s workshops harness a proven approach for successfully scaling organization-wide capabilities. With a track record of 25+ years of training some of the world’s biggest brands and top executive education programs, we blend human-centered design with experiential learning to deliver results you can rely on.
Additional Resources
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FAQs About ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply
How is this workshop built in collaboration with IDEO?
This workshop draws on decades of IDEO’s expertise and design thinking methodology and applies it directly to real-world contexts. Learners first build their skills and understanding through a facilitated simulation, then apply what they’ve learned to real-world projects in a design sprint.
What is a design sprint?
A design sprint is a focused, time-boxed process that helps teams rapidly solve complex problems and develop innovative solutions. ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply delivers this experience in an immersive format that allows learners to accelerate a real innovation project in just two days and emerge with progress that would typically take months.
What does multi-module training mean?
As training program lengths become shorter and shorter, dedicating two full days to an in-person session is often impractical. Instead, ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply offers a flexible, multi-module training format. This means that the training can be delivered in a split-day agenda with homework between sessions or spread out over weeks/months. This modular approach ensures participants get the full impact of the training while accommodating different schedules and learning paces.
What makes ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply a good fit for executive education programs?
ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply integrates seamlessly into executive education programs, enabling faculty and directors to bridge classroom learning with real-world application. It allows learners to step out of traditional lectures, put theory into hands-on practice and tackle real organizational challenges. With customizable templates for various scenarios, this flexible workshop is an ideal addition to programs aiming to catalyze their learners’ capabilities immediately.
What is action learning?
How might this program work for leadership development?
How can you measure the ROI of this workshop?
Many of our clients come to us with a common challenge: investing significant time, money and effort into initiatives, only to discover they couldn’t measure the impact—or worse, they were addressing the wrong problems altogether.
ExperienceInnovation™ | Apply is designed to change that. This workshop helps teams focus on solving the right problems and delivering business outcomes that are both meaningful and aligned with your business’s goals.
ExperiencePoint will guide you to identify appropriate KPIs to measure based on your goals and provide benchmarks when appropriate. Our approach emphasizes tracking Programmatic and Behavioral impacts as leading indicators of success, while Perception and Project or Business impacts often serve as lagging indicators.
