Program Overview
AI and Design Thinking for Innovation
Programme Overview
This programme provides participants with essential knowledge about design thinking, creative thinking techniques, and creative AI technologies to enable them to innovate more regularly and effectively.
Who is the Programme For?
Organisations across all sectors who want to innovate more effectively and regularly and are motivated to transform their businesses to become more design-led.
It is particularly beneficial for executives, senior managers, and their teams from product and service-focused organisations seeking practical guidance and tools to embed AI technologies that empower employees to generate new ideas and be creative on-demand.
What You Will Learn
Design thinking is an established practice for using design techniques to solve business problems, but needs to evolve in response to modern challenges. This programme will enable participants to:
- Plan for and lead the use of design and creative thinking techniques in businesses
- Practice design and creative thinking techniques in strategic business contexts
- Understand how creative AI technologies can be integrated into design-oriented business
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
- Understand the essentials of design thinking, creative thinking, and creative AI technologies for businesses
- Learn the principles of good design that permeate all aspects of well-designed products, services, and businesses
- Practice design and creative thinking techniques applied to your strategic business context
- Understand how creative AI technologies can be applied to your business challenges
- Long-term impact from a more design-led business using creative AI tools to enable more effective and regular innovation
Benefits for Your Organisation
- Tailored content to the needs of your organisation
- Alignment with your organisation strategy
- Flexibility in terms of content, format, and delivery
- Long-term impact from addressing challenges and promoting development
How Will You Learn?
We recommend that the programme is delivered across three whole days, each separated by three or four weeks. This is a highly experiential programme that blends theory and practice to enable participants to sustain their learning and transfer it back to the workplace.
It includes a mix of short lectures, facilitated group discussions, and practical team exercises using different processes, techniques, and digital tools, with reflection sessions to encourage participants to learn by reflecting on their use of these practices. Each afternoon session is structured around a hands-on design sprint to encourage and enable experiential learning.
Lectures comprise no more than 25% of the programme to maximise time for experiential learning through the practical exercises and group reflection sessions. Feedback will be provided in a variety of ways throughout the programme through design critiquing and deliberate reflective learning sessions embedded into the overall design process and programme structure.
Location
Programmes can be delivered at your chosen location, or at our state-of-the-art hub for Executive Education in Finsbury Square in the heart of the City of London. The building is home to high-spec syndicate rooms, with translation booths for international clients offering learning in your own language.
