Innovation and Design Thinking

Unlike most creativity courses that focus only on idea generation and design courses that focus only on refining existing ideas, this course teaches you a diverse set of tools within a complete roadmap that takes you from problem identification to ideation to implementation to commercialization.

The Innovation and Design Thinking course follows a systematic innovation roadmap, D4 (Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate) to identify unmet customer needs, generate ideas to fulfill those needs, analyze the most promising solutions and test the end product/process. It enables you to do this within a purely innovation context, or as an enabler to your Lean Six Sigma program or project.

D4 Pipeline: Define, Discover, Develop, Demonstrate

This course offers you the opportunity to work on a real business issue with guidance from the innovation experts behind The Innovator’s Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth. As a participant, you’ll learn the authors’ unique approach for innovating and designing new products, services, processes and business models.

Techniques learned and applied in this course include but are not limited to:

DEFINE

• Jobs To Be Done
• Outcome Expectations
• Ideal Innovation
• Job Scoping
• Kirton Adaption-Innovation
• Nine Windows

DISCOVER

• Resource Optimization
• Random Stimulus
• Imaginary Brainstorming
• Structured Abstraction
• Concept Tree
• Six Modes of Thinking

DEVELOP

• Function Structure
• TILMAG
• Morphological Matrix

DEMONSTRATE

• Mistake Proofing
• Prototyping & Piloting

With a hands-on, applied focus, this course teaches innovation and design tools in a workshop environment—complete with interactive lectures, practice exercises for each tool, simulations, and individualized mentoring on your real problems and challenges. You’ll practice solving mini problems and case studies throughout course and apply the full spectrum of thinking and tools to solve a bigger problem toward the end.

Pre-requisites

Pre-class reading assignment

System Requirements: Internet connection with modern browser

Operating System: Microsoft Windows (7 and higher) or Apple Mac OS X

Display Properties Setting: Minimum 1024 x 768 screen resolution

Classes meet through Microsoft Teams

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While we recognize the need to cancel due to unforeseen events, we kindly ask that you consider the other students in this course when cancelling your enrollment.  We ask for 6-weeks advance notice so that we may fill your spot and ensure a fun class for the other students.  Otherwise, the cancellation policy is below.

Lean Methods Group reserves the right to cancel or re-schedule courses and to change instructors. We will do our best to ensure you are aware of changes 6 weeks prior to the course start date. Please be advised that in the event of a course cancellation, Lean Methods Group is not responsible for airfare penalties or other travel related expenses you may incur.

• If you need to cancel, we will refund your paid registration fee, or you may apply toward another workshop. Please see below.
  • Requests for cancellations/transfers received at least 6 weeks before the start of the course receive a full refund/transfer.
  • Requests received within 4 weeks of the course shall receive a 50% refund.
  • After the course starts, there are no refunds or transfers.
  • Registrants who fail to attend without advance notice are liable for the entire course fee.
  • If you cannot find a substitute, we can transfer your course fees to another Lean Methods e-learning or instructor-led course of your choice.
• You must successfully complete the entire course or program before IACET CEUs, PDUs and a Certificate of Completion can be awarded.