AIM WA UWA Business School Executive Education: Design Thinking

Event Date: 
26 October 2018
Time: 
08:30am
Price: 
$1 650.00
Venue: 
Australian Institute of Management WA
76 Birkdale Street
FLOREAT

In increasingly complex times, innovation and collaboration skills are becoming vital to all types of businesses; and both principles are essential in Design Thinking. Design thinking brings together what is desirable from a human-centred point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable within any organisation or sector. Design Thinking is a contemporary and innovative approach to devising strategy and managing change.

This masterclass will lead you through the design thinking process and explore how human-centred design can help develop innovative solutions, through the use of creative tools to address the complex challenges faced by the public, private, co-operative and mutual, and not-for-profit sectors. The program is centred on an exclusive "ExperienceInnovation" simulation, which takes participants through the design thinking concepts and process. Together with current Harvard case studies, the Design Thinking masterclass invites participants to explore their own organisational challenges focusing on their “Burning Platforms” and accelerate innovation to cultivate effective solutions.

The presenters on this program are the first in Western Australia to be accredited in this approach, having completed the prestigious “ExperienceInnovation” US Accreditation.

The program is designed for those in senior leadership roles within public and private sector organisations who are involved in the development of policy and strategy. The program will promote Design Thinking as an approach for leaders to become more agile and adaptive to deal with increasing uncertainty, complexity and change.

Learning Outcomes:
- Explore what design is and how design thinking can be used to solve business challenges
- Understand how to apply design thinking principles within your own organisation to tackle complex strategic challenges and drive innovation
- Learn design thinking observation techniques to better understand your stakeholder’s mindset, your stakeholder's unmet needs, and the context relevant for your own organisation
- Moving ideas into action through the practice of ideating and rapid prototyping
- Sharpen your observations skills through taking part in the unique ‘Design Thinker’ Simulation.

About the Presenters:
Dee Roche
Dee is a Senior Management Consultant who has been facilitating, public speaking, teaching and working with groups for over 25 years within private, public and community-based organisations. Her experience spans the areas of strategic leadership and management development, organisational change and transformation, governance and building high performance teams that focus on values. Dee currently lectures at the UWA Business School on the Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program focusing on ‘Strategic Change and Transformation’, and is the 2013 Winner and 2014, 2015 & 2016 Nominee of the UWA Excellence in Teaching Award; 2014 Winner UWA Excellence in Teaching and Research Awards (Program Award); and 2014 Nominee for the Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame.

Jenny Hoffman
Jenny provides leadership development, strategic planning, cultural transformation and innovation services to a variety of public sector, private and not-for-profit clients, believing that every human being has a leadership to offer somewhere in our lives, and using our unique strengths. Jenny also works at the UWA Business School where she teaches leadership development and design thinking as part of the MBA program.

Organiser: 
AIM WA UWA Business School Executive Education
execed@execed.com.au
www.execed.com.au
08 9383 8090

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