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Certificate in Design Thinking for Innovation and Creativity
Fostering Creative Problem-Solving and Transformative Innovation
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Course Introduction
Design Thinking is a human-centered methodology that blends creative problem-solving with strategic insight to drive innovation. This course is designed for professionals seeking to unlock creativity, inspire innovation, and implement impactful change within their organizations. By focusing on understanding user needs, redefining challenges, and generating transformative ideas, participants will learn to approach problems in innovative and meaningful ways.
The Certificate in Design Thinking for Innovation and Creativity training course offers a comprehensive dive into design thinking principles and techniques, highlighting their practical use in both individual and collaborative settings. Participants will gain hands-on experience in developing innovative solutions, creating prototypes, and testing ideas to achieve user-focused results. Completing this certificate demonstrates proficiency in the key skills needed to thrive in today’s dynamic and competitive business landscape.
Training Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the core principles and methodologies of design thinking
- Cultivate creativity to address complex problems with innovative solutions
- Develop empathy and user-centric thinking to redefine challenges
- Master ideation, prototyping, and testing techniques for practical application
- Apply design thinking frameworks to real-world organizational scenarios
- Earn a recognized certificate validating their expertise in innovation and creativity
Training Methodology
This COPEX training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes an interactive mixture of lecture-led learning & group discussions.
Who should Attend?
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Innovation leaders and business strategists
- Professionals in product development, UX/UI, and customer experience roles
- Entrepreneurs and startup founders seeking to enhance creative problem-solving
- Team leaders aiming to foster a culture of innovation and collaboration
- Anyone passionate about leveraging creativity to solve complex challenges
Course Outline
- What is design thinking? History and evolution
- Core principles: Human-centeredness, collaboration, and experimentation
- The 5 stages of design thinkin
- Understanding the role of creativity in innovation
- Case studies of successful design thinking applications
- Building empathy: Understanding user needs and challenges.
- Tools for empathy mapping
- Journey mapping
- Persona development
- Observation and interview techniques
- Identifying key pain points and opportunities
- Workshop: Conducting user interviews and creating empathy maps
- Defining the problem with clarity: How Might We (HMW) questions
- Techniques for problem framing and reframing
- Fostering creativity through ideation
- Brainstorming and idea clustering
- Role-storming and reverse thinking
- Workshop: Generating and refining innovative ideas
- Prototyping as a tool for experimentation:
- Types of prototypes (low-fidelity and high-fidelity)
- Tools for rapid prototyping
- Conducting user testing to gather actionable feedback
- Iteration: Refining solutions based on user input
- Workshop: Creating prototypes and testing with peers
- Scaling design thinking for organizational impact
- Embedding a culture of creativity and innovation in teams
- Developing action plans for implementing design thinking initiatives
- Group project: Solving a real-world business challenge using design thinking
- Presentation of solutions and peer review
- Certification assessment and course closure
Providers and Associations
Certificates
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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Our training courses will run for 5 hours per day. The standard daily timing is from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm including the coffee/tea breaks and lunch.
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Delegates who will attend and successfully complete the training course will earn a COPEX Certificate of Completion. This certification is designed to validate the successful knowledge transfer, and that the desired learning objectives and outcomes to further advance your professional competency are achieved.
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