Design has the power to make the vague, Experiential!
Humane Design and Innovation Consulting and International Management Institute, New Delhi have carefully crafted a unique learning experience on Design Thinking for disruptive innovation – Practitioners program. The program has been crafted with a unique blend of application and academic rigour.
Program objectives – To acquire practitioner’s proficiency to apply Design Thinking at your place of work, by:
• Embracing a creative problem-solving mindset
• Building the skillset through a structured approach and toolkit
• Sustained behavioural change through disciplined application
Ready to start learning?
Empathy is the cognition
of heart and mind!
Hi there!
Are you constantly expected to innovate and deliver new ideas and solutions?
If yes, then this program is for you. You could be designing strategy, products, services, software applications, processes, policies, campaigns, learning or anything else. GOOD DESIGN NEEDS DESIGN THINKING.
Highlights of the program
- Online, live classes
- Delivered by expert practitioners
- Duration – 10 weeks
- Weekly time investment – 7 to 8 hours
- Bring your challenge and solve it as a group capstone project
- Peer group learning
- Interaction with other senior industry professionals
- Learn this high in-demand skill of the future.
Application Oriented
Learning
1 Capstone project
15 content
sessions
Virtual
collaboration
2 Master
Classes
40+ DT tools
1 Guest Leader
Session
7 Learning
nudges
7 individual
point of
views
Module 1
Introduction to Design Thinking and Disruptive Innovation
Design Thinking is a proven methodology which can be applied to a wide array of industries and roles. . Your journey to becoming a Design Thinking and Innovation practitioner starts with understanding the basics of Design Thinking and how it helps to find innovative solutions.. This module introduces you to the mindset and process of design thinking led innovation.
Module 2
Explore
Having a deep understanding of stakeholder needs and the surrounding ecosystem is key to designing innovations that add emotional and commercial value to the business. This module helps you embody empathy and use practical ways to empathise with different types of external/internal customers. It also helps you draw design insights from the empathetic conversations and often helps in discovering unstated needs/ pain points of your customers.
Module 3
Ideate
Everyone is creative! This module helps you embody creativity and visualize solutions for the problems identified in the previous module. This module covers practical tools to improve your creative confidence and enables to explore whole array of innovative solutions.
Module 4
Create
Try fast! Fail fast! Succeed sooner! If something summarises the way to innovation in a few words, it is this. This module covers various prototyping methods and helps you test them with customers. You will roll up your sleeves and create prototypes for the solutions you thought of in the previous module.
Module 5
Evolve
A design on the shelf is no design! We firmly believe that an innovation that has not reached the customer’s hand is no innovation. This module helps you work on the economics, and ways to commercialise the innovation.
Module 6
Storytelling to inspire
Most designs, innovations and change program fail, because they are not able to narrate the right story for customers to emotionally connect with it! This module makes you work on crafting stories for the innovation you created in the previous module.
Module 7
Introduction to Design Thinking and Disruptive Innovation
Design Thinking is a proven methodology which can be applied to a wide array of industries and roles. . Your journey to becoming a Design Thinking and Innovation practitioner starts with understanding the basics of Design Thinking and how it helps to find innovative solutions.. This module introduces you to the mindset and process of design thinking led innovation.
Creative failure is a stepping stone to success by design! Fail fast!
Delivery by expert
practitioners
Digital visual
vocabulary
playbook
Digital pin up
Design Thinking +
Innovation Commerciality +
Storytelling
Scale innovation
in organizations
Visual
thinking
Capstone project
application
Digital DT
playbook
Know your design thinking facilitator!
“Humans remember businesses
that remember humans”
Ajay Aggarwal was the founder of the Design Thinking & Innovation practice at KPMG in India. His professional career spans various roles in advisory, product & service design, digital user experience using tenants of Design Thinking,. sales, business development, culminating into Design Thinking Consulting and training.
He has trained over 2000 people on Design Thinking and innovation and successfully mentored over 70 design thinking led projects. He is a frequent guest speaker at various conferences on Design Thinking, innovation and customer experience.
He has published many types of research and written points of view on design, innovation and creativity.
Writing, teaching, sketching and mentoring startups are some of his passions.
He has delivered customized Design Thinking journeys for various companies in sectors such as Auto, BFSI, GICs, BPO / KPOs, IT and ITES, Manufacturing, Education, Energy etc.
Creativity is a fuel that
fosters innovation!
Ajay is exceptional when it comes to client centricity. He has the unique skill to intuitively and rationally understand the stated and unstated needs and design a holistic journey that achieves the desired results. Have worked with Ajay to create a Design thinking practice at LTTS. which we have been able to institutionalize and leverage as an organization. Ajay is a pro when it comes to Design Thinking and champions it. Would strongly recommend him for an organization that wants to embark on the Design Thinking journey.
– Sonal Vaidya,
Global Head OD & Effectiveness at
L&T Technology Services
Ajay is a great trainer and coach. with his storytelling you don’t feel you are attending a training session but feels like very well Integrated content relevant to your needs. An avid Design Thinking Practitioner, he brings in all the elements of the subject into practice!
– Kriti Palni Surya,
EA to CEO,
Raychem RPG (P) Ltd.
Ajay is a great design expert and we at L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering had an amazing experience of designing Human centred initiatives for our employees with Ajay’s help. Right form enabling the HR team with design ideas to creating sustainable initiatives; Ajay has walked the journey along with us. we wish him great success in his future en-devours.
– Dr. Afsha Dokadia
Head Learning and development at
L&T Hydrocarbons Engineering.
Ajay’s passion for Design Thinking (DT) is growing by the day and is blatantly visible in all conversations. DT and art of story telling come in naturally to him. Be it while training or working on a business challenge. His in-depth knowledge and ability to simplify the nuances of a topic in training or a workshop make him stand apart. I would strongly recommend his DT training.
– Anand Jani,
Business Ops Lead and Design Office Co-lead,
Capgemini
Ajay has mentored our students and is a passionate professional. His workshops leave the participants with great insights. His knowledge and ability to transfer the same with passion set him apart as a professional. He is ethical, focused and excellent at his job.
– Dr. Kalika Bansal
NMIMS
And they also loved our design facilitators!
This is the investment!
Your investment in the program – INR 60,000 only (GST extra)
Easy EMI options are available
Check out for Early Bird offer and group discounts!
FAQs
Design Thinking is a human centered approach to finding problems (beyond symptoms) and then solving them through continuous experimentation.
Yes, it is. Design Thinking at its route is a creative problem-solving approach, and lends its application to all kinds roles, functions and industries. It is applicable to people from all backgrounds.
Any one wanting to learn and practice design thinking can apply. . Some prior work experience will of-course help.. In our program you will get to collaborate with people from diverse sectors, industries and functions
We have capped the cohort size to max. 40 people.
None. The program is 100% live.
Yes, there are many. However, our focus is to help you build your own case study through disciplined application in capstone project
Yes, the program is geared to make you a Design Thinking and innovation practitioner and will enable you to use the tenets of Design Thinking to take up projects in your organization.
Yes, the program is geared to make you a Design Thinking and innovation practitioner and will enable you to use the tenets of Design Thinking to take up projects in your organization.
Yes, there is pre-work. The same will be informed to you a week before the program begins.
All alumni benefits attached to IMI’s executive education alumni will be extended to the participants successfully completing the program. Further you will become a part of a closely knit Design Thinking community that helps in continuous knowledge sharing.