Globalization and digitalization are rapidly changing individual and social conditions and necessitate a new approach to problems at all levels.
In this seminar you will learn the whole Design Thinking process step by step and apply it to your own problem (Design Challenge).
Using new creative techniques, you will learn to identify problems systematically relevant to your work and to develop user-friendly and collaborative solutions.
This seminar teaches management personnel the most important principles of Design thinking and provides an overview of innovative creative problem-solving techniques.

Content and goals:

• What is design thinking?
• How can design thinking shift from an entrepreneurial focus to the issues and relationships at a university?
• What does the entire design thinking process look like?
• Change originates in our minds - what other innovative creativity techniques expand our own frame of thinking and acting?
• How can collaboration in comprehensive projects with very different participants succeed to form the foundation for innovative methods?

Methods and approaches: Trainer input, reflection, discussion, and group exercises and training

Target group: Management in academic and administrative units

Requirements: none