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Innovation Through Design Thinking

Master the principals of design thinking to ignite, manage and sustain innovation in your team, department or business unit.

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Programme impact

Build a truly innovative organisation

Drive change, understand your customers’ needs and generate creative, optimal outcomes.

  • Discover why innovation is important to you and how design thinking can help you unlock your creativity. 
  • Define your own innovation challenge and solve it with design thinking principals.
  • Move your concept forward by building the right strategy with stakeholder support.
  • Use business experimentation and prototyping to turn your ideas into reality.

"This course is first in its category. It has made a real difference in how I approach innovation."

Eceiza Nebreda

Financial and Facilities Manager, Fundación Cudeca - Cudeca Hospice

Who attends

Right for you

This programme is designed for executives tasked with igniting innovation within their organisations, or who seek to create innovative solutions to a major challenge.

10

management experience

on average

Attendees include:

  • C-suite and General Management Executives

  • Mid-level Functional Managers

  • Consultants

  • Entrepreneurs, Owners and Founders

Programme content

Identify and overcome your challenges

Redefine your approach with the latest design thinking principals.

  • Module 1 | Why innovation is important to you?

    You will become conversant in the why, what, and how of innovation, learning the basic principles of innovation, why it’s necessary to your success and what form it takes.

  • Module 2 | Identifying customers’ needs:

    Master the key principals of design thinking, trying out its techniques and tools to help you make it real.

  • Module 3 | Defining your own innovation challenge:

    What innovation opportunities are you considering? What battles are you fighting? Learn to frame your challenges in a way that reveals answers, not just obstacles.

  • Module 4 | 

    Exploring possible futures:

    Begin to connect ideas to your challenge, develop new models of thinking and consider multiple perspectives. 

  • Module 5 |  How to take your concept forward:

    Explore prototyping your concept in an easy and low-risk way. Understand the techniques for selecting the most promising ideas and developing them further and discover how to design and run an experiment.

  • Module 6 | 

    Making your ideas stick:

    Taking a broader perspective, you will consider the tactics needed to gain support from those inside and outside your business, while learning how to help others develop their own innovation ideas.

Self-paced flexible online learning

Challenge your thinking with our range of online courses for individuals and teams. During this unique digital learning experience, you’ll embark on a self-paced journey with a dedicated Learning Manager over the course of several weeks. We have a variety of programmes to suit your individual needs, all of which offer access to the expertise of our world-class faculty, no matter where you are in the world, and an e-certificate on completion.

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12 hours of pre-recorded faculty-led lectures

Learn from industry experts through videos, curated content, assignments and - on select courses - live faculty sessions

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6 weeks, 4-5 hours per week

Experience a journey to suit your schedule with self-paced learning over the course of 6 weeks.

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Dedicated learning manager support

Benefit from the support of a learning manager to boost your development.

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Global online peer network

Connect and reinforce your learnings with an exceptional group of peers from around the world.

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E-certificate on completion

Build credibility with a London Business School e-certificate on completion.

Our faculty

Experts in the field

Access some of the world’s leading thinkers whose cutting-edge research in global business is grounded in real-world practicality.

Certificate in Management

This programme can also be taken as part of the Certificate in Management. Enhance your leadership approach, hone your business skills and curate your own curriculum with a blend of online and in-person learning.

How to apply

Submit your application through our online application form.

Not ready to apply yet? Reserve a place

Fees

The fee for the programme is £1,995.*

We offer a 25% discount for London Business School Alumni and for those who complete four eligible Certificate in Management or Finance programmes.

For more information on what the programme fee covers, please speak to our Client Relationship Manager.

*Fees are subject to change.

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