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Design Thinking for Business Leaders

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Overview

Design Thinking is an approach that enables even the most traditional thinkers to think innovatively and create outcomes that are beneficial for the customer. It is a human-centered design process that makes problems seem simple and manageable.

Why the interest in design thinking now? It is because the process of design thinking has been found to lead to greater creativity and better solutions for problems.

This course by the Institute of Product Leadership covers all the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking for Product Leaders. The course instructor initially gives you a primer on Design Thinking. Later, he takes you through the 5 stages of Design Thinking to help you understand how to target the right problem to solve and generate ideas to solve the problem.

Syllabus

  • What is Design Thinking?
  • Key Tenets of Design Thinking
  • The Mindset of DT
  • The Approach of Design Thinking
  • Empathize
  • Define
  • Ideate
  • Prototyping

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