Design Thinking African Bootcamp | Johannesburg
The Design Thinking African Bootcamp provides a unique training opportunity to learn from internationally recognized and highly experienced Service Design & Design Thinking practitioners from the Business, Design and Academic world. It also provides a combination of Masterclasses, in-depth knowledge of Service Design & Design Thinking Tools as well as a deep-dive in the Design Thinking Methodology, principles and mindsets.
If you aspire to be a changemaker, a maverick or are someone who wants to make an impact and bring about positive change, then this course is for you.
Design Thinking is now commonplace in most customer centred organisations. Whether you are an executive, a manager or operational staff, this program will help you pick up the tools necessary to design unique solutions that meet customer needs.
Coaches and consultants will benefit from this course too as it is the quintessential program to help you work with teams who are looking for novel solutions to delight customers.
A sustainability focused challenge
The main goal of the Bootcamp is to provide key insights on how to apply Service Design Thinking. We will carefully facilitate participants through the program as you work on a real case study to obtain direct, relevant experience. And through this, we will expand your capabilities to solve problems creatively and work in a more human-centred way.
The program will focus on a sustainability related challenge, ensuring teams consider both human needs but also ensuring that solutions are environmentally regenerative, economically sound and socially desirable.
Learning by Doing
From learning to generate customer insights through research and journey mapping to prototyping and testing fresh ideas, we will help you learn to adopt this value-focused way of working.
It won’t be plain sailing, we strive to replicate a real-world scenario, where you are required to pitch your concepts to our Dragons Den on the final day. So, as you learn to navigate ambiguity and wrestle with complexity, you will learn to step out of your comfort zones, to question previously held biases and assumptions and to listen to and understand the perspectives of others.
This process, which relies significantly on sensemaking and achieving alignment will mean you will need to explore, in a safe learning environment, the art of questioning and challenging the current situation, so that you can move together as a team, to defining a preferred future state.
DesignThinkers experienced facilitators will guide you through these divergent and convergent thinking cycles, so that you will obtain a lived experience and retain the memories on how to handle these situations when back in your work context.
A relevant and unforgettable immersion
At the Design Thinking African Bootcamp you will experience the pace of the city, explore the needs of African’s and consider how an emerging economy can shift into innovative and fresh solutions for people while holding the environment and other sustainability considerations at the forefront.
The venue offers a safe place to explore Design Thinking and Service Design while putting you at the heart of the confluence of African trends. The food is delicious, and we will photograph the process of you interacting with your colleagues as you prepare to pitch your concepts to the Dragons Den.
We look forward to having you on the course.
*Pricing plans, as well as payment plans, are available for individuals / start-ups / NGO’s. Please contact southafrica@designthinkersacademy.com to enquire.
Sep 05
Session 1
08:30 - 17:00 SAST
Sep 06
Session 2
08:30 - 17:00 SAST
Sep 07
Session 3
08:30 - 17:00 SAST
Sep 08
Session 4
08:30 - 14:00 SAST
Location:
Radisson RED, Johannesburg
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About this event
Early Bird Price
R 16 995.00 ex vat
Length
4 days
Language
English
Standard Price
R 18 995.00 ex vat
Involvement
4 days
Course Type
In-person
Price includes
- Guidebook
- Challenge
- 4 facilitators
- Snacks and Lunch