Design Thinking for Business Innovation: Now with ChatGPT-AI

Design Thinking focuses on End-users.  Knowing their needs and challenges by observation, empathy, interview and interacting with them by using prototypes or simulation.  Design Thinking aims to create innovation that meet users' needs, technically feasible and financially viable for the company. 

In this lecture, the important Design Thinking process is defined and illustrated.  The process is important as it empowers and helps the design team to focus on specific activities together. However, as the process is dynamic and interactive, the stages may vary depends on the issues uncovered in the process. Iteration and refinement is an important element in Design Thinking process to get closer to the optimal solutions. 

A showcase social innovation project in reducing Child Mortality.  The problems are complex, unclear and misleading direction.  You will learn how the real problem is uncover, re-frame and resolved with effectiveness.

Understanding the principles of Design Thinking is important and useful.  Principles timeless and generic for application to specific situations and the five principles covered here will be useful as a guide to complex problem solving and innovation. 

In this lecture, we cover the Five principles of Innovation. Innovation can be incremental or radical. Innovation is about mindsets, skills, process and culture of an organization. Leaders in organization ought to develop innovation as a strategic capability for long-term success of the organization. 

In this lecture session, we will look at a Design Innovation case study of a hospital and healthcare design approach for solving Ageing population in Singapore. 

This final lecture we want to look at the importance of developing personal, group and organizational capability in innovation.  Creative confidence is a valuable energy resource that we can learn how to tap into it to enable innovation to be driven by design rather than by chance. With personal breakthrough in Creative Confidence and team works, self-organizing teams in an organization are great assets for creating future success in innovation.