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This seminar introduces key concepts and principles of design to articulate the meaning of design and the idea of design as a value-add process and product. The seminar addresses how as a strategic tool in business, design sets the context for design thinking in product branding and innovation to create competitive advantage for business success. The seminar programme comprises interactive group discussions and case studies blended with lectures to provide the background knowledge and theories that underpin understanding of the key principles and concepts.
This seminar explores the use of design thinking principles and theories in the thinking processes at the cognitive level to elucidate the mental actions of creative problem solving. The seminar covers the underpinning thinking skills and knowledge required for better awareness of the creative process to enable the origination of creative ideas and concepts. The seminar programme comprises interactive group discussions and practical exercises blended with lectures to enhance learning experience and skill-based practice.
This course reviews how the human mind takes in, organise and process information for different purposes and the role of critical thinking, analytical thinking and creative thinking to drive one into action for creativity and innovation. It explores the principles of good thinking and its relationship to effective thinking for action/behaviour that enhance professional capabilities and creative innovation.
This programme introduces the key principles of innovation and addresses the creative mindset that is needed to make transformative change to drive innovation. It introduces participants to different thinking approaches as strategies for innovation by engaging them in the thinking processes that drive their actions and behaviours. This includes the notion of questioning assumptions, challenging conventions, asking good questions, thinking critically and intuitively, generating ideas, seeking alternative ways of doing things and creating new possibilities to get work done.
Participants will benefit from the highly intensive and interactive activities, both individual and group, aimed at promoting their knowledge construction and fostering rapid understanding of the innovative thinking processes.
The activities are designed to engage participants in the cognitive processes involved in creative innovation of authentic tasks at the workplace, and to introduce participants to the different types of problems (divergent vs convergent, well-defined vs ill-defined), the approaches to solving the problems (reproductive vs creative), the idea generation tools and techniques, the problem solving processes, reasoning etc.
This course introduces the principles and concepts of design thinking as a tool and methodology to unleash creative capabilities to drive workplace and business development and innovation. The course covers the underpinning skills and knowledge required for better awareness of the creative process to enable the origination of creative ideas and concepts, better user understanding and empathy and, to develop holistic problem solving abilities. It will examine the thinking strategies and process models for idea generation and holistic problem solving that leverage on design thinking for strategic and innovative development. This includes the core principles of problem identification and reframing, user understanding and empathy, divergent thinking for idea generation, rapid prototyping for idea rationalisation, and integrative thinking for strategic business decision making.
This course introduces the key concepts and principles of design thinking for business design, creativity and innovation. The course addresses how as a strategic tool in business, design sets the context for design thinking to create competitive advantage for business success. The course covers the underpinning thinking skills and knowledge required for better awareness of the creative process to drive innovation. It will examine the thinking strategies and process models for idea generation and holistic problem solving that leverage on design thinking for strategic and innovative business development.
Design thinking is characterised by an individual’s ability to organise tasks, address issues and resolve problems with an approach that focuses on end-user’s experience (human-centric), engagement in idea generation, experimentation and testing (rapid prototyping) and thriving on perspectives of diverse insights of the real world in team work (multi-disciplinary collaboration).
Design thinking engages tasks and problem solving in a creative process just as a designer would in the conceptualisation and development of a design project. This includes the engagement of creative thinking to address and manage issues to ensure meeting user’s requirements, mapping out strategies to overcome challenges, generating new ideas by experimenting with new approaches, testing ideas rigorously, and driving productivity and innovation through collaborative team work.
For design thinking to be effective at the workplace, an individual should keep an open mind to new possibilities, constantly questioning conventions, take chances with new ideas and testing out different approaches to doing things in ways that can generate alternative potential possibilities.
This is a design thinking induction programme aimed at introducing the principles and concepts of design thinking, and interprets its multiple possibilities to bring forth innovative solutions to existing challenges at work by understanding user needs and creating meaningful user experiences. This involves fostering a mindset change and embracing skills sets to foster a new way of thinking about problems and challenges, and the different ways to deal with them. The programme is designed to provide the learning opportunity to equip learners with design thinking skills to think differently, think creatively, think critically, generate new ideas, solve problems effectively and effect innovative breakthroughs with a focus on user needs and experiences.
This workshop engages participants in the design thinking process to interpret the multiple possibilities and potential of the design thinking approach as a strategy to drive innovation. Participants will be guided through the design thinking and design-driven innovation process of problem definition, hypothesis formulation, facts collection and analytical studies for their innovation projects, to formulate a strong design brief to generate design ideas and concepts for implementation. The workshop will focus on authentic tasks and scenarios to guide participants in the use of appropriate design thinking tools to elucidate user needs, identify and establish casual relationships, re-organise complex issues or problems into simple and manageable parts, and generate and test ideas using a variety of prototyping techniques. Participants will learn to create new possibilities, thinking critically, divergently and intuitively to generate ideas and to solve problems, ready for the implementation of their innovation project at the next stage.
This workshop introduces the key principles of design thinking and addresses the design thinking mindset that is needed to create transformative change to drive innovation. It introduces participants to the design thinking approach as a strategy for innovation by engaging them in the thinking processes that drive their actions and behaviours. This includes the notion of questioning assumptions, challenging conventions, asking good questions, thinking critically and intuitively, generating ideas, seeking alternative ways of doing things and creating new possibilities to get work done. Participants will benefit from the highly intensive and interactive activities, both individual and group, aimed at promoting their knowledge construction and fostering rapid understanding of the design thinking processes. Participants will identify new needs for their learning, develop skill sets, and they will devise a design thinking action plan to enhance their professional capability and creativity to transform mindsets.
In the design thinking paradigm, divergence, empathy, intuition, creativity and holism are the essential traits to create things out of nothing, and to create opportunities when they never existed. In this paradigm, breaking mindsets is an expression of creativity as it unleashes whole-new possibilities to the way we see, think and behave.
What does this mean for the possibilities that you desire to create in your management roles? What are the strategies to break mindsets and to embrace design thinking so that you can create new possibilities?
This course will address the different design thinking approaches to change the way we think, redefine the way we work and add value to what we do. The course will examine our mindsets as the key driver of our intrinsic motivation to effect change and how breaking mindsets with design thinking create new possibilities.
This course introduces the key concepts and principles of design thinking and the design thinking tools to unleash design thinking capabilities to drive innovation. The course covers the underpinning thinking skills and knowledge required for better awareness of the creative process to enable the origination of creative ideas and concepts. It will examine the thinking strategies and process models for idea generation and holistic problem solving that leverage on design thinking for strategic and innovative development.
Innovation is a process of creative discovery that favours a prepared mind – a creative mind that is open and agile.
What makes a creative mind and how does it work for innovation to happen? What does it take to foster creative mindsets to drive innovation?
This course covers the strategies for fast tracking the creative process for making serendipitous discovery and conceptual leaps of inventiveness in innovation. This includes priming the mind with the abilities for rapid generation of ideas, development of new insights and engagement of intuitive thinking to solve wicked problems in the innovation process.
Real productivity begins with a productive mindset. We have to think differently and that includes thinking differently about the way to be productive. A productive mindset fuels your skillsets to enable you to optimise your skillset in the way that works best.
How can we intervene and transform our mindsets so that we are more effective and productive in the way we live, work and play?
This course examines what drives our thinking behaviours and how we can transform our mindsets so that we can think differently and increase our personal effectiveness and productivity. The course will evaluate our mindsets against skillsets as distinctly different notion that have a far greater impact on our chances for success.