2nd Edition of the Immersive Workshop for Senior Faculty Members
Design Thinking A Culture in Academia?
for Innovation
Our Design Thinking workshops for different sections of the society
Corporate Leaders & Teams
Deeper understanding of your stakeholders and intuitive product design and perfect marketing strategies – Design Thinking enables you to grow your business 10X faster. Identify hidden opportunities by connecting dots and understanding what makes the defining last 2% addition for you as a leader in your segment.
Start-ups & Entrepreneurs
Design Thinking is all about being human-centric and future-focused. It enables you to create greater value in your area of service because this concept is rooted in empathy. Leverage Design Thinking to understand your ‘actual’ market segment and the journey of customer development rather than mere product/ service development.
Academics
Design Thinking helps academic faculties and students to enhance and cultivate a more empathetic approach to teaching and learning. It opens new vistas for enriching and facilitating education universally. By leverage Design Thinking faculties and students can explore and innovate new solutions to overcome the challenges in education.
Government
Officials
The most successful policies are those that embrace the very last recipient of a scheme. Design Thinking shows how to identify and empathize with the first and last stakeholder. Plan more, do more through Design Thinking – be it disruptive solution, a futuristic policy or impeccable policy execution.
Social
Innovators
Societal problems are often termed wicked problems as they do not have a single issue as the source, but rather have multiple complex issues. Design Thinking is often the recourse taken by those concerned with societal issues. Design Thinking helps you to get down to the root cause of the problem and identify effective solutions.
We Strive to
#Revolution
Bring about awareness on Design Thinking as a Human-centered approach for problem solving
#Enablement
Enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things through the application of Design Thinking
#Collaboration
Collaborate with corporate and government/agencies to create Design Thinking movement in the country
#Social Impact
Lead social innovation projects from the front by working with Various agencies across the country
Our Approach of Design Thinking
Our engagement rests on these 4 pillars
Transformation in the thought process is indispensable before the practical application of Design Thinking. The process of conditioning the mindset is called preparing the Design Mind.
Space has a great impact on the human mind. We need to leverage spatial elements that help cross-collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas among stakeholders.
Ideas need the support of stakeholders for actualization. As every stakeholder has stated and unstated needs and interests, sustainable models are required to bind all stakeholders. These models are called Design Frameworks.
The actual Design Process is a 5-step process that leverages unique Design tools for practical application. The process and the tools are indigenously designed.
Our Focus Areas Of Design Thinking Workshops
School of Design Thinking has helped different industries in applying Design Thinking approach and culture in several key areas with deep impact:
Strategy Design
Design the next version of your organisation
Business Design
Design a disruptive Business Model to augment accelerated growth
Culture Design
Design leadership alignment to the larger purpose of the organization
Design Mindset
Develop the mindset of a ‘Design Thinking’ entrepreneur in youself and in your team
Product Design
10X Design Growth
Design and co-create an aggressive plan for 10X growth in a shorter span
Upcoming & Recently Concluded Workshops
Academia NxT™ Collaboration
School of Design Thinking and Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology signed an MoU for the Academia NxT™ program beginning a new chapter of collaboration. The program aims to foster Design Thinking across the campus by focusing on mindset transformation for faculty, students, knowledge exchange along with emphasis on designing the culture of the interaction by closely working with the institute leadership.
Transformation of Public Sector Services and Governance in Tamil Nadu
Arun Jain delivered an insightful session on leveraging Design Thinking to transform public sector services, emphasising the need for innovative governance approaches. He shared key observations on Tamil Nadu’s demographic and industrial balance, comparing the role of Panchayat heads to CEOs, and highlighted the untapped potential of rural entrepreneurship.
Design Thinking Focused Out-bound Leadership Program for Students from Bharathidasan Institute of Management
Design Thinking is a proven methodology to bring help design user-centric products and services and is used across various domains and insdustries. To get a ring-side view of how it is implemented in FinTech, 120 students first year students from Bharatidasan Institute of Management, Trichy, visited the School of Design Thinking and 8012 FinTech Design Center. During the multi-day sessions, they worked on contextual design tools and interacted with product and delivery heads.
Our Footprints
Government
Corporates
Academia
Hear from our Founder
Our Philosophy of Boundaryless Thinking