HOW instead of WHAT
Design Thinking Workshop
We are always happy to be able to pass on our knowledge and to share our everyday working methods with others. We regularly offer workshops on various topics.
With DESIGN THINKING from the innovative product to the innovative corporate culture
Concentrated knowledge
As a design office for innovation and product development, we are very familiar with methodical approaches to complex problems from a wide variety of areas of life. In cooperation with the Federal association of medium-sized businesses (BVMW) Duisburg and the Essen-based process designer Alexandra Schollmeier, we developed a tailor-made event with the title "With Design Thinking from the innovative product to the innovative corporate culture".
Alexandra Schollmeier is a systemic coach and helps companies to design new work processes and create clear structures and efficient communication processes. We were able to win her as a speaker for our event.
Many roads lead to Rome
Strategic creative methods are our daily business and offer support for innovative services, products and solutions.
Design thinking as a creative method puts the user and his needs at the center of the work.
Observing and analyzing are essential cornerstones of the design thinking process. Developed solutions are transferred to other areas or topics in iterative work phases. The needs and problems of the user are determined precisely.
It is important to critically question one's own views, deadlocked ideas and prejudices and, if necessary, to discard them. In this way, you approach your goal in small steps and with defined intermediate stops. Today we are surrounded by countless difficult to grasp problems as well as complex questions and models whose solutions can never be designed universally for a large number of participants.
Design thinking is not a silver bullet that guarantees innovation and inventiveness, but it can be a method of making processes more efficient. Openness to results is combined here with finding a solution. The focus is always on the benefits for users or customers.
In product development, design thinking methods are nothing new and are used every day. The workshop offer was aimed at managers from various areas. The methods can be applied to a wide variety of problems. In corporate management in particular, it is necessary to think outside the box. And within teams, too, it is helpful to break new ground in order to be successful in the long term.
The workshop
The event started with two lectures, in which the possibilities and benefits of the methodology were shown to the participants.
This not only involved product-related problems, but also complex issues of corporate management and corporate culture.
Team building methods were then tried out in a playful manner and practical exercises in design thinking were used as examples.
In an open discussion round, the problems of company structures and tasks of executives were summarized. It was also discussed how the world of work has changed and will change in the future and how design thinking is actually applied in everyday life.
The participants used the relaxed end of the event to exchange ideas about exercises, new experiences and insights.
Book recommendations on the subject
Svenja Hofert
The agile mindset
Michael Lewrick
The Design Thinking Playbook
Bernd Oestereich and Claudia Schroeder
The collegial company
Interested in a workshop on Design Thinking?
Creative methods are our daily business on the way to new and innovative services, products and solutions.
We offer you our first-hand knowledge in the form of workshops and lectures for your managers and development teams.
