Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Create Innovative Teams with Design Thinking
The University of Adelaide
This online course explored the role of design thinking in team contexts, and how leaders and managers could employ this approach to increase innovation from their teams. The course covered topics including the benefits of implementing design thinking, how to apply design thinking principles, how to develop problem statements, identification of team-based methods, and how design thinking could be implemented in a team.
4 weeks, 1 hour per week
Jennie Shaw
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic)
The University of Adelaide
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the benefits of implementing design thinking in a team environment.
- Apply principles of design thinking to develop well-defined problem statements.
- Identify team-based methods for expanding, refining, visualising, and implementing ideas.
- Explain how design thinking could be implemented in a team environment.
Syllabus
Week 1: What is design thinking?
- Define design thinking and how it differs from other approaches
- The benefits of design thinking for teams and organisations
Week 2: Principles of design thinking
- What are the core principles of design thinking?
- What do these principles look like in action?
- What is a well-defined problem statement and how are the principles applied to develop them?
Week 3: Team-based methods for idea generation and implementation
- Idea expansion and visualisation
- Idea selection and refinement
Week 4: Implementing design thinking in a team environment
- Examples of design thinking in an organisation and a team
- What steps could a manager take to bring design thinking into a team? Where would you start?
- What hurdles would a manager need to overcome in order to implement design thinking in their team?
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Issued on 4th January 2024
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