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Futures Thinking for Strategy Development
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Design Thinking is a widely recognised framework to development innovative and relevant solutions for complex challenges. It is a hands-on method and mindset with emphasis on teamwork and iterative learning through continuous end-user and stakeholder involvement.
Our goal is to unlock your challenges and create lasting impact. With our practical approach, we empower you to lead change, providing the tools to identify beneficial opportunities and nurture valuable solutions. Our worldwide team combines global reach with invaluable local expertise, strategically assembling professionals to train, guide, and develop your team and organization, ensuring you thrive in the everevolving landscape. With over 25 years of experience, we bring leading-edge expertise from Europe to drive meaningful change and create lasting impact.
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Why choose us?
Our worldwide team combines global reach with invaluable local expertise, strategically assembling professionals to train, guide, and develop your team and organization, ensuring you thrive in the ever-evolving landscape. With over 25 years of experience, we bring leading-edge expertise from Europe to drive meaningful change and create lasting impact.
Take a look at all the key learning objectives, topics covered, practical applications, and detailed course structure of the upcoming training.
Find out if this training matches your learning journey, which tools will be used, and practical details such as location & pricing.
What are the expected learning outcomes and their benefits. You will receive an official certificate, toolkit & exclusive access to our L&D library.
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Futures Thinking for Strategy Development
Futures Thinking uses the exploration of emerging changes and trends to transform them in far and near future scenarios. This training will take a specific topic as a starting point and use a set of Futures Thinking tools like Horizon Scanning, Future Wheels and Future Scenarios to explore different possible futures. Design Thinking will be introduced as an integral element throughout the training to translate future trends into reality and tangible, actionable strategic initiatives English or Dutch
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Refreshing and providing more perspective to any design process that you work on. "
Romesh Kumar, ABN AMRO Bank
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This course will help you to feel and understand how to turn trends into actionable strategies for innovation. You will gain hands-on practice using tools and approaches to come to future scenarios. Based upon these scenarios you will learn to develop strategies to deal with these different futures. As Design Thinking is at the core of everything we do it will be part of this Course as well however in a light touch way
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Futures Thinking for Strategy Development
Enough about us, who are you?
An Innovation Professional A Strategic Thinker and Doer
seeking how to explore different futures to enrich their innovation process
An Executive or Decision maker
wanting to understand how Futures Thinking can help them in enriching the Strategy building process
needing guidance to further develop their Futures Thinking muscle as part of a Strategy building effort
Our tools for growth
Full access to all our DesignThinkers tools in the Online Learn & Development Library will be granted upon completion of the course. Building your Digital Toolkit
Stakeholder Mapping Research Customer Journey Evidence Mapping Ideation
Prototyping Storytelling
Persona Card
20-45 minutes
Individual or in groups
Sticky notes, sharpies
Personas are used to define who are the customers you are trying to help with their specific problems. They can provide a range of different perspectives on a service, allowing your team to define and engage the different interest groups that may exist within your target segment.
Customer Journey Map
45-60 minutes
Core team
Sticky notes, sharpies
Creating a Customer Journey Map builds empathy by focusing on the present journey of the customer. At its best, this is a continuous activity to plot information about why your customers do what they do and how they experience interacting with organizations and/or services through different touch points.
Idea Brainwriting Tool Service Scenario Map
+4 people
Sticky notes, sharpies
The Idea Brainwriting Tool is a simple and direct tool to start co-creating new ideas in a team. It pushes everyone to contribute in enriching and making ideas more detailed. Everyone in the group works on each other' s ideas by adding, eliminating, replacing and finetuning each idea.
20-60 minutes
Core team
Sticky notes, sharpies
The Service Scenario Map is a tool which will help you visualize the steps and actions your persona takes when using the service or product of your company. It is a visualization of the user experience, using the service designed based on the ideated ideas. 10-30 minutes
AI Prompting
5-15 minutes
Core team
Laptop or phone
Support your process by using AI for the different stages of the Double Diamond. Prompt AI to generate 5 ideas on your problem statement, present your persona to AI and ask your research questions pretending they embody the persona, or make a prompt to enrich your Customer Journey Map by simulating different situations.
Mindsetters | Hands-free
Make pairs. There is going to be a competition making paper airplanes. Let everyone put their dominant hand in their pocket. Give the participants 5 minutes to make a paper airplane; Let everyone throw their plane from behind a common line. For throwing they can use their dominant hand.
Mindsetter | Hands-free
Make pairs. There is going to be a competition making paper airplanes. Let everyone put their dominant hand in their pocket. Give the participants 5 minutes to make a paper airplane; Let everyone throw their plane from behind a common line. For throwing they can use their dominant hand.
Mindsetter | Not a Banana
Start having the whole group walk around in the room. Whenever you see an object, point at it and give it a name that has nothing to do with it. (When you see a table, you call it a cat). When everyone understands, speed up the space. Stop for a while and share finding. Do people use association to connect words and objects?
Mindsetter | Step Clap Tap
Mindsetter | Sheep Shed
-10 minutes 2-20 people 10-15 minutes +20 people
No material needed
Make groups of 2 Let the two group members facing each other and take turns counting to 3 together. As soon as the group gets the hang of counting, switch one number for a gesture, such as a step, a clap or a tap. This mind setter engages the brain and often results in a relaxed atmosphere and loads of laughs.
No material needed
Make groups of 3. One person is the ‘sheep’ and stands in the middle. The other two are the shed and cover the sheep with their hands making a roof. There is one person tells the sheep to try to find another shed and the shepherd becomes a sheep too. The person standing alone is the new shepherd.
Mindsetter | Dolphin Show Mindsetter | 5 Changes
Make a circle and send one person out of the room.
Decide who in the circle is the leader. The person who left the room at the beginning of the exercise may now come back and stand in the middle of the circle. The leader will start with gestures and everyone follows the leader. The person in the middle has to guess who the leader is.
Make pairs. Observe each other for 30 seconds. Turn around with your backs toward each other. Change 1 thing about your appearance. Turn around and identify the change. The second time, change 2 things about your appearance. Turn around again. Repeat a third time.
Outcomes & Objectives
What to expect Learning Outcomes
Mindsetters & Energizers
Disturbance
What's Included?
We craft with a Designer's Mindset
We base our approach on the Double Diamond, developed by the UK Design Council. This is a visual model frequently used to describe a process flow of design and innovation.
The first Diamond focuses on problem finding while the second Diamond provides the tools and mindset for generating value increasing solutions.
CONNECTIONS & RELATIONSHIPS
People-centered Communicate Co-create Iterate
Systemic Design integrates human-centered design and Systems Thinking, bringing awareness to the holistic complex systems solutions are being developed in. The approach provides support in increasing end-user and planetary awareness from A to Z while leaving space for iteration and value exchange amongst stakeholders.
Meet some of our Facilitators
Our coaches and facilitators are all subject matter experts in the field of Human-Centred Design, and have extensive experience in providing project assistance and trainings in Design Thinking. You can find all of our coaches and facilitators on our website.
About what we do Expertise
We focus on creating value for people as the most effective way to drive project success and inspire.
"A
refreshing and engaging experience
that went beyond my expectations."
Tupo Muocha, UNICEF
Our worldwide team combines global reach with invaluable local expertise. We approach every challenge from the user ’ s perspective. We focus on creating value for people as the most effective way to drive project success and inspire growth for our clients’ businesses and organisations. inspire growth for our clients’ businesses and organisations. inspire growth for our clients.
Elmo Diederiks
Dimitra Tsertou Adela Cristea
Christina Lennartz
Joey Piliero Marjo Staring
Jeroen v/d Weide
Tim Schuurman
Ilana v/d Boel
Certification
We value quality! DesignThinkers is accredited by the Dutch Council for Training and Education, underscoring our commitment to delivering high-quality education and training experiences globally. This accreditation is a testament to our unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality education and training experiences to our global community.
After the successful completion of one of our courses, participants are awarded with a DesignThinkers Academy Certificate. All tools and materials will be available after the course in our Learn & Develop Library (accessible to alumni only).
'I have participated in at least 15 courses on
soft skills in the past 20 years of my career, but
the course of DTA stands out as the best. '
Javier Sanchez Millan,
Pictet & Cie SA
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What we provide
Culture
An innovation aware organisa
Bringing together capab content, employees and learn to adopt a designer and identify solutions, w and proactively solving c
Capability
An innovation ready team
Through (on-the-job) han training and coaching, we empower your team to adopt a solutionoriented mindset, preparing the team for innovation.
Culture
Capability
Content
Stepping stones for innovation
Your Bespoke Learning Journey
We help you navigate through a diverse array of customized routes, integrating both content and capability services and ensuring a bespoke approach to meet your unique needs and unlock your potential.
and find your bespoke route. We explore stepping stones together,
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Facilitation is key in running successful Design Thinking workshop sessions. Creating a space and an environment in which people feel confident and can be creative in is the key responsibility of the Facilitator. Throughout the course you will be challenged to work in small teams to practice all aspects of facilitating a workshop.
You will be using Design Thinking tools* such as Stakeholder Mapping, Customer Journey Mapping and Prototyping, the focus will be on your personal facilitation skills of designing and facilitating Design Thinking workshops. AI included.