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Programme Overview
Imperial Innovation: A Design Thinking Approach programme is a four-day course that guides participants towards becoming champions of innovation within their organisations. The programme delivers hands-on learning experiences that will give participants the mindset and practical tools to develop business ideas into commercial propositions.
Business ideas, design thinking & innovation
Participants will emerge with a solid understanding of how to be entrepreneurial within their organisations and inspire innovation from others. This management course will help maintain and grow innovative thinking within business; it will help attendees deal with the complexities of change in uncertain times; it will improve methods for creative thinking which will benefit product & service delivery design; and as well as help the attendees succeed in their own role it will help move business forward thanks to an understanding of corporate innovation and a new found thinking for the design of strategy in business.
Who should attend?
The innovation courses are London-based and suitable for mid to senior-level managers who want to increase their innovation capabilities and inspire intrapreneurship from their teams. Your programme peers will come from a broad range of sectors and diverse nationalities to develop innovations in products, services and processes. No technical background is required.
Learning Objectives
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Immerse participants in an innovation experience through an experiential journey which includes intensive workshops
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Provide participants with applicable design thinking and innovation tools
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Allow participants to network across organisational silos
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Learn to identify new business opportunities, craft a story around the opportunity, build the right business model around the innovation, navigate the organisational context and negotiate for internal resources
Learning Journey
Disruption, Innovation and Uncertainty
Explore how rapid change challenges innovation—and how uncertainty, when understood and embraced, can become a powerful driver of strategy and competitive advantage.
An Introduction to Design Thinking
Discover the principles of Design Thinking, a human-centred approach that turns complex challenges into opportunities for innovation.
Design Thinking Discover Phase
Step into the discovery process, uncovering user insights and fresh perspectives that spark meaningful innovation.
Field Work
Take your ideas into the real world. Collect first-hand data to fuel your Design Thinking journey.
Design Thinking Define Phase
Fully immerse yourself into transforming insights into clear problem statements and pinpoints the opportunities that matter most.
Design Thinking Design Phase
Generate bold ideas and turn them into concepts ready to be prototyped and tested.
Design Thinking Deliver Phase and final presentations
Share your innovation journey in dynamic final presentations.
Responses to Uncertainty
Learn how to how to embrace experimentation and ambidexterity and build organisations that adapt and thrive in uncertain times.
Thinking disruptively about Corporate Innovation
Dive into the tools and insights needed to convince key decision-makers and investors, whether within your organisation or beyond. Explore and compare cutting-edge methods for planning, experimenting, and storytelling that turn great ideas into funded initiatives.
Thinking disruptively about Radical Innovation
Within the realm of radical innovation, this session delves into the dynamics of market creation. Participants will explore how stimulating collective intentionality can transform visionary ideas into entirely new market realities.
Bottom-Up Business Model Innovation
Discover how established companies build internal platforms to foster business model innovation. You will discuss examples of accelerator’s, venture studios and corporate funds and how they can unlock the power of innovation at scale.
Leading and Working with People for Innovation
Craft a compelling innovation narrative and inspire key stakeholders to join your journey.
Building High-Performing Teams
Build high-performing teams that embrace creativity, trust, and adaptability.
Programme Close
Reflect on your journey and leave with a clear vision of how to apply your learning for lasting impact.
Programme Faculty and Experts
Anu Wadhwa
Anu Wadhwa is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the Programme Director of the Imperial Innovation: A Design Thinking Approach programme at Imperial Business School. Anu’s research helps established organisations examine patterns and processes of entrepreneurship, the impact of corporate entrepreneurship on organisational innovation, how entrepreneurial actors make decisions under extreme uncertainty and how pre-entry experience and knowledge impact post-entry innovation choices and outcomes.
Ileana Stigliani
Ileana Stigliani is Associate Professor of Design and Innovation at Imperial Business School. She received her PhD in Management from Bocconi University, Milan. Her research focuses on the cognitive aspects of innovation. In particular, she studies how material artefacts and practices influence cognitive processes – such as sensemaking and sensegiving, categorisation, and perceptions of organisational and professional identities – within organisations.
Bart Clarysse
Bart Clarysse is visiting professor at Imperial Business School. Following his PhD studies, Bart was an advisor in technology policy at the European Commission and he still consults on innovation and technology matters for various European governments and agencies. He is founding partner of Inceptum, a company that offers support to build a business plan out of an initial idea; and he sits on the board of Siruna, a mobile internet start-up. He also is an advisor in innovation policy to the Flemish Government, the Belgian Government and European Commission.
Sankalp Chaturvedi
Dr Sankalp Chaturvedi is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at Imperial Business School. The central focus of Sankalp’s research is in the areas of organisational citizenship behaviour, leadership, and interpersonal trust. In addition, Sankalp is interested in examining the “nature vs. nurture” debates with regard to behaviours in organisations. He is active in executive education where he has been involved in program design and delivery for a wide range of clients including Royal Society, Saif, EDF, and others.
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