Design Thinking and Innovation

Overview

The Design Thinking and Innovation from Harvard Business School Online features five weeks of course content and two weeks of project work, enabling you to put your learning into practice. 

You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate and problem-solve with your peers, who come from a wide range of professional experiences, backgrounds, and countries. In the process, you’ll build your network while gaining insights you can apply to your own organization.

What you'll learn

• Approach problems using structured methods of gathering observations, breaking cognitive fixedness, and generating creative ideas for solutions

• Apply creative solutions and behavior-change analysis to innovation development and internal team processes

• Develop a strategic innovation toolkit and learn when and how to apply design thinking and innovative problem-solving tools and exercises

• Practice empathy in applying a human-centered approach to design techniques, such as user research, user experience, prototyping, and journey mapping

• Assess group dynamics and improve team performance through tools and processes designed to enhance collaboration and iteration in development

• Guide teams to draw from a wide range of professional experiences and backgrounds and create stronger collaboration dynamics to heighten their approach to innovation