Design Thinking and Creativity for Innovation
Intermediate
Online
10 Weeks
Free
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English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
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The Syllabus
- Welcome
- MicroMasters® program overview
- Course overview
- Teaching and learning research
- Preliminary survey
- Introduce yourself
- About this module
- What is innovation and why is it important?
- Innovation basics
- Creativity
- Design
- Readings
- About this module
- Thinking about creativity
- Creativity myths
- The Myth of the Lightbulb
- The Myth of the Mousetrap
- The Myth of the Lone Genius
- The Myth of Talent
- The Myth of Hierarchy
- Reflecting on these myths
- Readings
- About this module
- Personal creativity
- Flow
- Organizational creativity
- Interview: Dan Pontefract
- Readings
- About this module
- Purpose
- Value
- Activity: Value Proposition Canvas
- Readings
- About this module
- Design thinking
- Interview: Moura Quayle
- Case study: Herman Miller Furniture Company
- Readings
- Module 1-5 reading notes
- Mid-course assessment
- About this module
- Applying design thinking
- Needs
- Customer discovery
- Readings
- About this module
- Experiments
- Interview: David Burt
- Activity: Value Proposition Canvas
- Readings
- About this module
- Principles of the Design Sprint
- The Design Sprint
- How to make it happen in an organization
- Activity: Value Proposition Canvas
- Readings
- About this module
- Distributed innovation
- Organizing for action
- Interview: Nilofer Merchant
- Interview: Terri Griffith
- Case study: Herman Miller Furniture Company
- Readings
- Assessment information
- Assessment: Value Proposition Canvas practice
- Activity: Value Proposition Canvas final refinement
- Assessment: Value Proposition Canvas peer assessment
- About this module
- Putting it all together
- Readings
- End-of-course checklist
- Module 6-10 reading notes
- End-of-course assessment
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