5-Week Online Design Thinking Fundamentals Course

8 Live Sessions

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5-Week

5-Week Online Fundamentals Design Thinking Course Join us in our Virtual Studio!

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Key Benefits

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This interactive online course will equip you with the Design Thinking mindset, tools and skills to kick-start bold innovation. You will be working virtually in classroom sessions, followed by group

work on a human-centered challenge under live guidance of our skilled facilitators. We strongly believe in learning-by-doing. After the course, you will be able to apply Design Thinking right away.

Focus on how to implement Design Thinking in your daily work

Live and personal guidance from our expert facilitators

Learn to empathize and improve your strategy

Develop your creativity & innovation mindset

Boost co-creation and innovation while working remotely

Knowing about Design Thinking is a good start, but the trick is how to successfully apply it in projects. Learning-bydoing and implementing DT in your work.

Our expert facilitators will share their experience and tricks on how to implement Design Thinking in projects and provide personal feedback.

The tools we will be using are fundamental in Design Thinking and we will teach you how to use empathy in designing new services for your end-user.

Learn how to listen to your end-user, embed end-user insights, develop prototypes and work in small iterations.

Dare to fail and pitch your story.

Working online provides great opportunities to co-create. Use your experience to kick-off projects with global or remote teams in an online environment.

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At a glance

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Over a 5-week period, you will meet with your fellow participants and coaches in 2-hour online classroom sessions. You will work in co-creation in small teams to learn from each other and incorporate

the knowledge and skills of participants from diverse backgrounds and industries. We will teach you how to use empathy when envisioning future scenarios of service for your end-users.

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Alumni recommend this course

“Great if you want to start Design Thinking.

Enough information to start doing, enough inspiration to continue learning.”

MATHIEU DESSCHUYTER, NOVA REPERTA 3

Discover the program With a combination of live classroom sessions, group assignments and homework you will gain practical knowledge to apply Design Thinking (DT). The course consists out of 4 modules (8 sessions in

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total), focusing on the stages of DT: Discover, Define, Design, Deliver.

A follow-up call will provide you with the opportunity to reconnect with your facilitator to reflect on your experiences with implementing DT.

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Onboarding.

Welcome & Kick-off

Discover.

Introduction & Research

Define.

Framing the problem

Design.

Ideation & Prototyping

Deliver.

Testing & Pitching

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Session 1&2 2x2 hours

Session 3&4 2x2 hours

Session 5&6 2x2 hours

Session 7&8 2x2 hours

Meet the team and familiarize yourself with the online tools, so you’re set to get started.

Introduction, Design Research, Mind Map, Stakeholder Map, Personas.

Opportunity Areas, Customer Journey Map, Problem Statement.

Ideation, Idea Priority Map, Service Scenarios and Artefacts.

Testing the pilot, Improving it, Pitch.

Reflection & Personal Plan.

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Who is it for?

This online course is meant for individuals e.g. HR, IT, Marketing looking for new tools to structure innovation and collaboration; professionals who want to stretch their creative problem solving skills; teams from different industries who want to lead innovation; managers who want to discover what Design Thinking can offer to their team.

“The training was a real transformation.

Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand what DT really is about.”

Pamela Caillens, Cartier International SNC

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“It was great to learn together with people from all over the world. The hands-on approach made it clear how to implement the learnings in my work environment.”

“The course with experts from the DT field and the hands-on approach inspired my work as a humancentred design consultant.

A wonderful experience.”

Participant, Online Fundamentals Course

Alexander Faga, Swisscom

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Meet the Team

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Our expert facilitators will share their experience and tricks on how to implement Design Thinking in projects and organizations. That way you can start applying Design Thinking straight away in your daily working environment.

Tim Schuurman

Jeroen v/d Weide

Alwin Put

Tim is a motivated and energetic senior facilitator within Business Strategy, Change Management and Design Thinking.

Jeroen has a MA in Dutch Theatre, Film & Communications, facilitating teams and designing creative processes and environments.

Alwin is an experienced facilitator across the Benelux.

He has years of experience in corporate environments and the hospitality industry.

Co-Owner, DesignThinkers Academy Amsterdam

Senior Partner & Facilitator, DTA Amsterdam

Creative Strategist & Senior Facilitator,

Marjolein van Eersel Thomas de Bresser Senior Facilitator, DesignThinkers Managing Director, Academy Amsterdam DesignThinkers Agency

Marjolein has a solid expertise in embedding innovative ways of working in corporates and brings tons of energy to our sessions.

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Thomas has launched Innovation Hubs with a focus on human-centered innovation in corporates and facilitates Design Sprints.

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About the Design Thinkers Academy

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DesignThinkers is one of the leading design driven innovation agencies helping organizations around the world making the transition from being strictly product orientated and sales driven, towards being service oriented and humancentered. We are represented in +25 countries and train, develop and facilitate multidisciplinary teams and communities of change.

Organizations that want to stay competitive in an ever-changing world, need to reassess the way they are structured and function.

Most of all, it is important to build lasting relationships with your customers. While these organizations are pushed to differentiate themselves, DesignThinkers Academy makes it their mission to reach out to these people and help them.

Our mission is to empower teams & professionals to adopt human-centered design to kick-start bold innovation and drive positive change.

Closing the ‘reality gap’ between organizations and people should be the number one priority of any innovative company. Design Thinking delivers the innovative ideas and solutions needed to solve these problems.

Our approach is not cookie cutter or dogmatic.

We invest in building a relationship with you, gaining an understanding of your organization, your stakeholders and the broader context of the problem.

Together, we design a customized approach to your challenge, with a constant focus on tapping into the existing creativity and knowledge the people in your organization.

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We deliver high-energy courses worldwide from Brussels to New York, from Dubai to Amsterdam for diverse clients such as SAP, Coca-Cola, Cartier, Philips, P&G, MasterCard, Bacardi, ING, PwC, Gucci, Samsung, GE Healthcare, Nike, L’Oréal and many more.

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Tickets Your ticket includes access and use of the online environments (Miro & Zoom) for the duration of the course; All tools and materials are available after the course for personal use; A certificate from DesignThinkers Academy is awarded to participants who successfully complete the course.

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Early Bird Ticket

(Please check our online calendar for specific dates) €1.095

Regular Ticket €1.195

Prices are excluding VAT. We charge 21% VAT to Dutch based companies, NGO’s and selfemployed. We also charge 21% VAT to international companies, NGO’s and self-employed based in the European Union without a registered VAT number. If you are based outside the European Union we will not charge you with VAT. If you have any other questions regarding this online course or its ticketing, we kindly as that you contact us through email.

Certificate After successful completion of the 5-Week Online Design Thinking Fundamentals course, participants are awarded with a DesignThinkers Academy Certificate.

Display your DesignThinkers Academy Certificate on your Linkedin profile under the section Licenses & Certifications.

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8 Live Sessions

English Spoken

5-Week

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