Hands On Training

Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation

The University of Queensland

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edX

Course Features

Duration

10 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Intermediate

Effort

10 hours per week

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Innovation matters to everyone, including managers in small or large organizations, start-up entrepreneurs, those in government roles, or teachers.

This course looks at how individuals and organizations use creativity and design thinking skills to identify and choose opportunities that enable innovation. Creative problem solving skills are developed and enhanced through a range of real world activities. An overview of design thinking tools is provided to help students understand design thinking as a problem solving approach. Ideas developed through these processes are then applied to a customer discovery approach to understand their value in the market place.

Course Overview

International Faculty

Post Course Interactions

Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

English writing/reading proficiency (required)

General knowledge of business processes (recommended)

What You Will Learn

The nature of human creativity and innovation.

How creativity and design thinking help business to solve complex problems.

The process and tools of design thinking.

Different creativity and design processes and how it can be used to generate better ideas.

How to use a variety of tools to help validate your ideas to improve their chances for impact.

The use of design sprints to integrate the different elements of the course into a systematic method for generating and testing new ideas.

How to build organizations that support creative and innovative thinking.

Course Content

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Module 1: What is creativity, innovation and design

Module 2: Creativity Myths

Module 3: Creative people, creative organizations

Module 4: Impact and purpose

Course Instructors

Tim Kastelle

Associate Professor at University of Queensland Business School

Tim's research, teaching and engagement work are all based on his study of innovation management. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in economics, and his MBA and PhD were completed...