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.

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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.