Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation by University of Queensland (edX)

Organizations frequently face difficulties in fostering and managing innovation. This edX course from the University of Queensland teaches how to build and capture value from innovation. It investigates how individuals and organizations may utilize creativity and design thinking skills to identify and select possibilities for innovation. It teaches the Design Thinking process and tools and helps students learn how to apply design thinking as a problem-solving technique. This Design Thinking course is part of the Micromasters in Corporate Innovation program. It consists of ten weekly sessions covering the following themes.

• The fundamental concepts of creativity, design and innovation
• Creativity myths and why they’re dangerous
• Ideas and tools that foster creativity and can help people and organisations work more creatively
• How to measure impact and the value created through creativity
• Design Thinking process and tools for innovation and role of empathy in the design thinking process
• How do you learn what fits people’s needs
• Designing and executing experiments for value creation
• Principles of a design sprint and how to make it happen
• Concept of distributed creativity and how diversity and collaboration through networks support the creativity process
• Show how organizations can create impact from ideas

The course also contains various real-world tasks that help participants build and improve their creative problem-solving skills. Tim Kastelle, Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Associate Professor of Innovation Management at UQ Business School, will teach the course. Tim has vast experience in innovation management and has published extensively in prominent innovation publications.

Key Highlights

• Learn how creativity and design thinking can help businesses solve complex problems
• Explore different creativity and design processes and how they can be used to generate better ideas
• Learn to apply ideas to a customer discovery approach to understand their value in the market place
• Learn how to use a variety of tools to help validate your ideas to improve their chances for impact
• Learn to use design sprints to integrate the different elements of the course into a systematic method for generating and testing new ideas
• Self-paced course that can be taken at your own time
• Course available for Free. Can add a verified certificate at a small fee.

Duration : 10 weeks, 8-10 hours per week

Google Rating : 4.5/5.0

Enroll here: edx.org/course/design-thinking-and-creativity-for-innovation