Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation

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80 h
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  • Fee-based Certificate
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  • 10 Sequences
  • Intermediate Level

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Syllabus

Week 1: What is creativity, innovation and design
The core concepts of creativity, design and innovation

Week 2: Creativity Myths
Mistaken beliefs about creativity and why they're dangerous

Week 3: Creative people, creative organizations
Ideas and tools to help both people and organisations work more creatively

Week 4: Impact and purpose
Measuring impact and the value created through creativity

Week 5: Design thinking for innovation
The role of empathy in the design thinking process and the tools we can use

Week 6: How do we learn what people want?
How we ensure learning fits people's needs

Week 7: Experiments
Designing and executing experiments for value creation

Week 8: The design sprint
Principles of a design sprint and how to make it happen

Week 9: Distributed creativity
How diversity and collaboration through networks support the creativity process

Week 10: Moving from ideas to impact
Bring the ideas presented in this course together and show how organizations can create impact from ideas

Prerequisite

  • English writing/reading proficiency (required)
  • General knowledge of business processes (recommended)

Instructors

Tim Kastelle
Associate Professor
The University of Queensland

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The University of Queensland is a public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland Parliament, UQ is one of six sandstone universities, an informal designation of the oldest university in each state. 

Combining the three world rankings of the most established universities in 2023, the University of Queensland is ranked 2nd in Australia and 42nd in the world. UQ is also a founding member of edX, Australia's leading group of eight and the international research-intensive association of Pacific universities.

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