Leadership Through Design Innovation

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Leadership Through Design Innovation

This course is part of Organizational Leadership Specialization

Instructors: Elizabeth Gerber

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

335 reviews

1 week to complete

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Today’s workplace calls for a new style of leadership to embolden and accelerate innovation. Design offers a novel way to discover market opportunities, experiment to validate concepts and mitigate risk, and deliver value to all stakeholders. This course offers hands-on experience applying human-centered design process to real-world challenges, and requires you to explore the world around you. Learn how to engage with end users, effectively frame problems, identify potential solutions, and build prototypes to test assumptions and learn what works (and doesn’t). Then dive into a range of ways large and small to bring design innovation into your organization.

You will learn that the first step in the design process is finding opportunities. Human-centered designers do so by immersing themselves in a particular user context to identify areas of focus for design innovation.

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10 videos4 readings1 peer review

10 videosTotal 46 minutes

Introduction to Course 5 with Dean Blount1 minute
Course Overview with Ed Colgate1 minute
Innovating and Finding Opportunities by Design4 minutes
Design is about People6 minutes
Adopting the Traits of a Design Innovator7 minutes
Uncovering Opportunities with a Design Innovation Mindset5 minutes
Design Research7 minutes
Tools and Techniques for Design Research6 minutes
Observations to Insights6 minutes
Generating How Might We (HMW) Questions from Insights4 minutes

4 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Meet Your Professors10 minutes
Course Grading & Logistics10 minutes
Suggested Readings (Optional)10 minutes
Optional Reading: Empathy on the Edge10 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 150 minutes

Finding Opportunities / Design Brief150 minutes

How do we take the opportunities that we've uncovered and turn them into new possibilities? In this module we'll explore ideation, sketching, and storyboarding as tools to generate and communicate ideas.

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3 videos1 reading1 peer review

It is easy to think of prototypes as “drafts” of the final design, but in this module we’ll teach you to think of prototypes a bit differently: as tools for learning. We will discuss approaches for maximizing the amount that you learn from prototypes, and iterating your way rapidly toward outstanding results.

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6 videos1 peer review

How do you bring design innovation to your organization and sustain it over time? In this module we will learn theory and practical techniques to help you lead an organization that routinely produces innovative products, services, and systems.

What's included

6 videos3 readings1 peer review1 discussion prompt

6 videosTotal 26 minutes

Designing your own Organization5 minutes
Communicating about Design & Innovation6 minutes
Building the Team6 minutes
Creating Space for Design & Innovation5 minutes
ROI for Innovation4 minutes
Conclusion to Course 5 with Dean Blount2 minutes

3 readingsTotal 30 minutes

Design Worksheet10 minutes
Example Completed Design Worksheet10 minutes
Optional Reading: Design Thinking Comes of Age10 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 180 minutes

Leading Design Innovation / Design Brief180 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

Optional Course Feedback10 minutes

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Elizabeth Gerber

Northwestern University

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Reviewed on Mar 21, 2016

I liked the format and the assignments. The assignments did however take a lot of time to complete. I think you need to give more info about how to prototype as I'm still not confident with this

Reviewed on Dec 17, 2022

The tasks are short but are tedious. (Tbh, I spent days avoiding to finish this course 😂). Nevertheless, I have learned a lot from the course. 5/5.

Reviewed on Sep 6, 2020

Great great just enjoyed a lot and learn more by this course thank u team Coursera. It's helps me to develop my leadership skills

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