Discover how to put innovation into practice

This course is a comprehensive experience that will teach you Design Thinking principles, the toolsets and methods. The knowledge you will gather from this course adds value to leadership skills by focusing on asking the right questions when solving complex problems, and with that enabling you to become an innovation accelerator in your company.

During this extremely hands-on course you will be working on a concrete challenge. The outcome of this course can serve as a kickstarter for a real product.
By being immersed in our Innovation & Design Thinking bubble for several weeks, you will start to develop a new creative muscle, that you will be able to successfully apply when returning to your worklife.

Learning outcomes:

In detail you will learn:

💡 In-depth knowledge of the importance of a user-centric approach and how to involve customers in product development.
💡 Apply customer insights using different tried and true methods as Design Thinking (IDEO) and Design Sprints (Google) for innovation.
💡 Understand the value of a fast-paced, iterative development process and its impact to continuously drive towards success.
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Who is this workshop for?

Aimed at leaders, decision makers and innovators who are looking for the ultimate guide to the concepts you need to make innovation and change happen. This bespoke program is your kickstarter to introduce an Innovation Culture at your company.

Format

All our workshops encourage experience-based learning. We apply a good mixture of lectures, discussions and practical exercises to let our participants build new skills and gain new knowledge.

Assignments: You will get weekly assignments which require you to engage with your team outside of the course—hosting a brainstorm, for example.

Interactive Lectures: Our live sessions serve to give you the needed background information, introduce new methods and tools and offer the chance to dive deeper into course concepts.
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Checkin: Once a week we are hosting a short live session to checkin with you, see how you are doing and providing valuable feedback to take your homework even a step further..

Coaching: In a dedicated Slack Channel for this course, you get the opportunity to share your progress, discuss ideas and get feedback from your facilitators during the week.

We are trained and certified by world-class educators

Hyper Island is a digital creative business school located in Stockholm, Sweden

IDEO is a global design company committed to creating positive impact.

Kaospilot is a hybrid business and design school focused on leadership and entrepreneurship

“We finally understood that innovation is nothing to be afraid of. We can do it and dorris showed us how.”

“This experience really changed our process and our thinking in the whole team. Today we have a whole new culture in place.”

”dorris helped me incorporate new proactive tools to foster future competitive challenges.”

“This workshop was really eye-opening to me. It was the starting point for my team to change our thinking and our doing.”

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Your Facilitators

Chris Weier

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With more than 15 years of experience in User Experience and Digital Strategy, Chris has already worked for major DAX-20 companies and renowned agencies. Since 2007 when she founded her first company, Chris has always been focused on using a human-centered creation process for her products and services.

With dorris Chris has implemented a process that enables our team to identify and solve big business challenges within only 2 months. This process helps our clients increase productivity and lower development costs while creating a coherent digital customer experience and enabling an acceleration of their business growth.

Pär Hellstadius

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Pär is a People Transformation specialist who supports organisations and individuals to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities of agile, remote and cross-functional ways of working. He trains and cultivates the competencies needed in the uncharted terrain of New Work and enables his clients to build more creative, effective and healthy teams and organisations.

As a Partner of dorris, he designs and facilitates parts of our Innovation Playground Copenhagen and supports our clients in Stockholm.

Jonas Haefele

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Originally from Switzerland, Jonas has been living and working in London the past years. With 10+ years experiences in Branding and Design, he developed and led the Innovation courses at Decoded before he founded his own company.
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In the past Jonas has created and conducted workshop programs for IKEA, VISA, Daimler, IBM and ING Bank teaching Agile, Lean Startup, Human-Centered Design, Innovation and Design Sprints.

Jonas today works as a consultant in mindful and sustainable tech and always asks the question: Can we weave sustainability into innovation?

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