This Design Thinking Leader Program is right for:

• Product/growth/marketing managers involved in driving product strategy to translate customer needs into solutions and deploy transformational business intelligence products
• Product heads, consultants, and Executive Officers who drive strategy and are looking  to build business models based on a human-centered design framework
• UX/graphic/web designers working on user-facing designs who want to learn a structured approach to blend form with function
• Educators, corporate trainers, and researchers who lead organizational transformation to foster design thinking as a mindset to achieve collaborative innovation

The rapid proliferation of technology changed the way today’s customer behaves which has upended industries and economies. Innovation is the key to survival and success in such a disruptive world and can only happen when one has a deep understanding of the customer’s needs. Design thinking methodology helps exploit a human-centered design framework to develop products and services that are user-friendly, business viable, and technologically feasible — and are at the center of a disruptive business model.

There are no eligibility criteria for this Design Thinking Leader program. We recommend you come with an open mind and willingness to unlearn the old ways and learn the new ways of creating products and services.

• 25+ practical frameworks of innovation that you can use at work to innovate faster
• Hands-on knowledge of design thinking as a business problem-solving tool, and how to build a culture of innovation
• Group capstone projects and a certificate to showcase your credentials in the discipline of innovation

Upon completing this Design Thinking Master’s Program, you will be awarded a Master’s Certificate in Design Thinking, as well as program completion certificates from Simplilearn for the courses included in the learning path.

The learners of this design thinking leader program follow a three-dimensional learning model. The first dimension deals with how individuals can master design thinking as a tool of innovation. The second illustrates how individuals can work together in teams to create product, service, and business innovations. Finally, dimension three includes how to build a blueprint for an organization that fosters innovation at scale.

This design thinking master’s program is an intertwined journey of self-paced learning full of conceptual knowledge, live classes led by industry experts where interaction and sharing of ideas takes place, and case study discussions and projects that provide learners with hands-on experience to make them ready for real-world innovation challenges.

Our teaching assistants are a dedicated team of subject matter experts to help you get certified on your first attempt. They proactively engage with you to ensure adherence to the course path and enrich your learning experience — from class onboarding to project mentoring and job assistance.

Our highly qualified instructors are industry experts with years of relevant industry experience. Each of them undergoes a rigorous selection process, including profile screening, technical evaluation, and a training demo evaluation before getting certified to train for us. We ensure that only those trainers with a high alumni rating remain part of our faculty.

Harvard Business Publishing has a complete catalogue of business case studies, articles, books, and simulations. This design thinking leader program follows a case-based learning methodology to bring real-world business innovation challenges to life in the online classroom, and encourages the participants to come up with solutions through discussion. There are several benefits of this teaching method:

• Real-world case studies authored by HBS professors and other top business school educators
• Analyze business situations and different aspect of managerial decision making
• Discover new ways to approach and solve business problems

The capstone project is 3-4 weeks in duration where students learn how to apply the crucial concepts taught in the course. In the beginning of the capstone, learners choose their teams and the innovation projects they would like to work on. Each week, the mentors (design thinkers) guide the learners, explain the concepts, provide feedback on their approach, and help them solve the challenges in the project. The project has two parts. In part one, learners are expected to design an innovative product. In part two, learners create a strategy to build an organizational culture that supports innovation at a large scale.

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