Innovation and Design Thinking Certificate Program

What if you could create radical solutions that could stimulate an emotional response? Better yet, what if you could do so rapidly?

Experimental, collaborative and holistically innovative. That's design thinking. It's a mindset for success. It's for anyone who wants to see infinite possibilities and turn problems into solutions. Putting the customer front and center, design thinking offers a strategy for successful companies to be more agile and innovative. Using a proven process to drive innovation, you will work in small teams to visualize outcomes and challenge assumptions. You'll learn a proven, repeatable, creative and collaborative problem-solving method that you can use to reframe problems and generate more rapid, empathetic and innovative products and services.

How You Will Benefit

• Understand how design thinking can improve organizational and personal performance
• Embrace uncertainty and develop an experimental mindset to iterate quickly
• Create a new process and attack problems from a completely new angle
• Convert ideas into customer value and market opportunity
• Release your group's creative thinking and sharpen critical analysis
• Create more progressive and practical solutions for real-world problems
• Balance constraints and technical limitations with customer preferences
• Develop design thinking to foster collaboration across functions of the organization
• Learn how to use a repeatable process to drive rapid innovation