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UQx: Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation

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Learn the fundamentals of how design thinking and creativity can be used to enable innovation.

Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation
10 semanas
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Innovation matters to everyone, including managers in small or large organizations, start-up entrepreneurs, those in government roles, or teachers.

This course looks at how individuals and organizations use creativity and design thinking skills to identify and choose opportunities that enable innovation. Creative problem solving skills are developed and enhanced through a range of real world activities. An overview of design thinking tools is provided to help students understand design thinking as a problem solving approach. Ideas developed through these processes are then applied to a customer discovery approach to understand their value in the market place.

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  • Institution UQx
  • Subject Negocios y administración
  • Level Intermediate
  • Prerequisites
    • English writing/reading proficiency (required)
    • General knowledge of business processes (recommended)
  • Language English
  • Video Transcript English
  • Associated programs
  • Associated skillsInnovation, Creativity, Creative Problem-Solving, Problem Solving, Design Thinking

Lo que aprenderás

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  • The nature of human creativity and innovation,
  • How creativity and design thinking help business to solve complex problems,
  • The process and tools of design thinking,
  • Different creativity and design processes and how it can be used to generate better ideas,
  • How to use a variety of tools to help validate your ideas to improve their chances for impact,
  • The use of design sprints to integrate the different elements of the course into a systematic method for generating and testing new ideas,
  • How to build organizations that support creative and innovative thinking.

Plan de estudios

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Week 1: What is creativity, innovation and design
The core concepts of creativity, design and innovation

Week 2: Creativity Myths
Mistaken beliefs about creativity and why they're dangerous

Week 3: Creative people, creative organizations
Ideas and tools to help both people and organisations work more creatively

Week 4: Impact and purpose
Measuring impact and the value created through creativity

Week 5: Design thinking for innovation
The role of empathy in the design thinking process and the tools we can use

Week 6: How do we learn what people want?
How we ensure learning fits people's needs

Week 7: Experiments
Designing and executing experiments for value creation

Week 8: The design sprint
Principles of a design sprint and how to make it happen

Week 9: Distributed creativity
How diversity and collaboration through networks support the creativity process

Week 10: Moving from ideas to impact
Bring the ideas presented in this course together and show how organizations can create impact from ideas

Testimonios de los estudiantes

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I want to say I'm delighted by this course. It was an enlightening experience. Moreover, I'm willing to aim for Micromaster credential.
As this is my first online course, I'm pretty surprised about my peers and how you can learn from people around the globe.

Learner - Miguel Gonzalez

¿Quién puede hacer este curso?

Lamentablemente, las personas residentes en uno o más de los siguientes países o regiones no podrán registrarse para este curso: Irán, Cuba y la región de Crimea en Ucrania. Si bien edX consiguió licencias de la Oficina de Control de Activos Extranjeros de los EE. UU. (U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC) para ofrecer nuestros cursos a personas en estos países y regiones, las licencias que hemos recibido no son lo suficientemente amplias como para permitirnos dictar este curso en todas las ubicaciones. edX lamenta profundamente que las sanciones estadounidenses impidan que ofrezcamos todos nuestros cursos a cualquier persona, sin importar dónde viva.

Este curso es parte del programa Corporate Innovation MicroMasters

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5 cursos de nivel universitario
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