Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP)

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Jigsaw Academy

Master tools, strategies and methods in Design, Innovation and Strategy by pursuing Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP)

Mode

Online

Duration

5 Months

Fees

₹ 120000

Quick Facts

particular details
Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom
Mode of Delivery Video Based
number of course credit 17

Course overview

The Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) is a short time online initiative brought by Jigsaw Academy with the help of leading industry experts and curators.

The program offers many sought after skills to acquire alongside strategies, frameworks and tool-kits while obtaining great entrepreneurial abilities which will help the candidate to stand out from amongst the crowd. Backed by industrial specialists, the programme has been designed specifically to cater to the candidate’s needs and desires. Outlined with unique courses, modules and themes, it models the students as the new and upcoming creative leaders of the near future.

Through this programme, students will be able to run a complete real-time industrial project and add new flavors to it with their creativity. It equips them with the knowledge of how the economy will turn out to be in the digital era and how the participants can use it to make the most from it. The designing methods and creativity led entrepreneurship to allow the participants to innovate their own ideas and meet head-on with the challenges.

The highlights

  • Online, instructor-led course
  • 5.5 months course duration 
  • 8 unique courses
  • Complete real-time Capstone Project
  • One on one sessions with international industrial experts
  • Certification by MIND (Manipal Innovation and Design)

Program offerings

  • White papers
  • Project case studies
  • Medium articles
  • Mind lab
  • Workshops
  • Seminars
  • Classes
  • Students mentor interaction

Course and certificate fees

Fees information
₹ 120,000
  • The Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) fees is Rs. 1,20,000 plus taxes. 
  • International students applying for this programme need to pay US Dollar 2,350. 

Head

Amount

Programme Fees

Rs. 1,20,000 plus taxes

International Students Fees

US Dollar 2,350

certificate availability

Yes

certificate providing authority

Jigsaw Academy

Who it is for

The Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) is ideally best suited for any candidate who is a student, fresh graduate or a working professional and desires to be a Creative Leader. 

  • Creative Leader 

Eligibility criteria

Work Experience

Both freshers and experienced professionals can apply to the Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) from Jigsaw Academy. 

Education

Candidates applying for Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) programme certification must have a diploma or degree equal to 12+3 years. Candidates must have secured a minimum of 50% in the qualifying degree. 

What you will learn

Entrepreneurial skills

Once the Post Graduate Certificate Program in Design and Innovation is completed, students will be absolutely comprehensive of the following topics: 

  • Candidates pursuing Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) will be able to learn designing for customer experience
  • Participants will learn about culture codes, ideation, prototyping, impact designing, etc.
  • The participants will be given exposure to Live projects in order to understand and tackle real-life complex problems in the most simplistic way.

The syllabus

Design Sense

Design Sense Overview
  • 6 The idea of Design and Design Practitioner 
  • The 7 guiding senses
  • Design Sense as a natural adaptive sense - Feel, Frame, Think, Shape, Make, Spread
Design Sense Framework and Toolkit
  • A framework that can be applied to projects of any scale

Mapping Shifts

Design Research Methodologies
  • Empathy and Personas  
  • 3 Primary and Secondary Research Methods
New Technologies and its Impact
  • Understanding Emerging and New Technologies, Relevance, Players and Impact

Industry X.0
  • How might we apply the newest technologies to solve the oldest problems, pushing the boundaries
  • PESTLE Analysis: Technological Factors Affecting Business
Reframing
  • Reframing game: Flipping problems into opportunities
  • Problem definition and Problem solution

Culture Code

Decoding and Recoding Culture
  • Developing Culture Codes, Defining Values, Heroes, Rituals and Symbols
  • How Culture can be mapped and decoded and consciously created. Understanding Hofstede’s theory
Designing Culture
  • Human Centered approach to deliberately creating fresh cultural codes. Articulating the Individual Psyche, Group Behaviours and Community Culture
Memes
  • How Ideas spread in Contemporary Digital Culture.

Radical Disruption and Innovation

Understanding Innovation
  • Types of Innovation, from Incremental to Disruptive
Disruption Innovation Theory
  • 4 key concepts
  • What is Diffusion of Innovation
Measurable Innovation
  • Best metrics for measuring innovation performance
Hero’s Journey
  • How to Use the Hero’s Journey as a Foresight Tool

Growth Horizons and Hacking

Growth Hacking Strategies & Techniques
  • Horizons of Growth Framework
Strategic business design
  • Business Visioning 
  • Lean business model canvas

Idea to Prototyping

Ideation
  • Ideascaping / Describing the idea visually 
  • Mood board / Visually illustrate the overall "feel" of an idea 
  • Making Mental Models
Prototyping Mindset and Methods
  • Introduction to prototyping 
  • Prototyping Methods :Jugaad Prototypes, Paper Interfaces, Physical Prototypes

Designing for Customer Experience

Designing for Persuasion
  • Persuasion Design Theory 
  • How to build habit-forming products
Customer experience strategy
  • Customer Journey Mapping
Exponential Narratives
  • Art of the Narrative plus communication strategy to seed and amplify a powerful idea

Designing for Impact

The Heart of Ecosystem Thinking
  • Introducing Ecosystems Thinking in an Entity, the simple way
Systems Thinking Models
  • Systems-Thinking Models 
  • Switching to Systems Thinking
Ecosystems Thinking and Design
  • Systemic design in practice 
  • How Systems Thinking can solve problem

Capstone Project

Admission details


Filling the form

Participants need to fill out the application form to get admission to the Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) course online. These are the steps to follow:

Step 1: Participants applying for this programme should log on to the programme URL https://www.jigsawacademy.com/postgraduate-certificate-in-design-innovation-strategy/

Step 2: Press Apply Now and register as a new user to enrol via Google ID, Facebook ID or LinkedIn ID. 

Step 3: You will be then redirected to the page wherein there is an application form

Step 4: Applicant will have to upload their CV while filling out the application form

Step 5: Once all the details have been submitted, the candidate will be required to pay for the Programme

Step 6: After the payment is done, the candidate will receive an acknowledgement slip from the academy which he/she should keep safely.

Step 7: Once received, the candidate has to attach that slip to an email and send it to the institute officials 

How it helps

Economies throughout the globe have taken frequent hits in recent times. However, never before has it offered this many opportunities for young and brewing entrepreneurs and industrialists. In this fast-paced digitalized world, competition is an all-time high with world-changing ideas being born every day. In such times the Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) offers and edge to budding postgraduates and work professionals by teaching them more creative ways to tackle obstacles and find solutions to seemingly tougher challenges.

It amalgamates interests from across varied streams, disciplines and inventive minds to furnish new remedies to mankind’s persisting issues. Their new group of skill sets powered with live project experience and internship will offer them a broader aspect of job security and considerably lift them up in workplaces. Whence the program is complete, applicants will have a firm grasp on design strategies and would have learnt the way to evolve their own innovations and passions.

Instructors

Ms Sonia Manchanda
Designer
Freelancer

Ms Rajeshwari Math
Designer
Freelancer

Mr Sachendra Yadav
Digital Experience Practice Lead
Freelancer

Mr Shwetabh Verma
Instructor
Freelancer

FAQs

What is MIND and what is its role in Post Graduate Certificate Program In Design Innovation & Strategy (PGCP) certification?

Manipal Innovation and Design or MIND is an ingenuity discovered by Manipal Global Education Services with Graduated Programs made by Spread Design and Innovation.

Mind provides the students with new ways of problem solving and tools that they would require for long in their careers. It has devised a syllabus for the candidates with exercises that pushes them to their creative limits only to emerge with stronger skills and sharper mindsets. 

What are some examples of Dares to be taught in the course?

Reimagining work from home scenarios and coming up with an improvement, Designing a new human parcelling system, Changing industrial attitude towards waste disposal

Will there be an internship after the completion of the course?

The Post Graduate Certificate Program has an Internship Assistance Cell that works with industries to offer candidates with internships and based on the candidate’s all-round capabilities, these can also turn to job placements.

Does the Program offer a scholarship?

Candidates can achieve an early bird discount as long as they apply within the offer period. However, there are no scholarships.

Who has designed the program?

Ms Sonia Manchanda, an internationally renowned designer, prized as Gamechanger for her Dream IN Project, is the backbone of the Program Design. Member of the Indian Design Council and NID alumnus, she is a design evangelist with experience in almost all sectors of the industry.

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