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Design Thinking - Innovation Management Tool (Synchronous e-Learning)

  • Innovation & Business Improvement
  • Basic
  • SkillsFuture
  • Short Courses
  • This module is part of Advanced Certificate in Innovation

This programme is conducted online.

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Fee
SGD1,744* (as low as SGD203.20 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

3 days
Weeknights (7pm - 10:30pm)
Saturday (9am - 6:00pm)

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

  • Entrepreneurs and Business owners
  • Managers looking to enhance processes in their organisations
  • Project management teams
  • Professionals seeking to understand innovation and develop plans for their organisations

Overview

In today’s competitive market, what distinguishes successful companies is the ability to deeply understand customers’ needs, wants, and desires and fulfil them better than the competition. To achieve that, companies will need insights, the ability to turn those insights into opportunities for innovation. It is about implementing Design Thinking for sustainable innovation.

Participants will learn the key tenets of design thinking as an innovation method focusing on user-centricity. Specifically, they will learn the 5 phases of design thinking from gaining empathy and define to ideate, prototype and test. Participants will also gain knowledge about the four operating models used for implementing design thinking in organisations.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the key tenets of Design Thinking,
  • Apply Design Thinking for product innovation and customer experience
  • Implement Design Thinking in your workplace or project

Topic/Structure

  • Explore design thinking as a method and mindset for innovation,
  • Get practical insights on implementing design thinking
  • Apply the design thinking framework and develop practical innovative solutions to overcome business challenges

Assessment

An assessment will be conducted at the end of the course.

 

CERTIFICATION

Upon meeting the attendance and assessment criteria, participants will be awarded a digital certificate for participating in each module. Please refer to our course policies to view the attendance and assessment criteria. 

Upon completion of all modules required for this programme within a maximum duration of 3 years, participants will be awarded a digital certificate.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$523.20

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$523.20

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$1,744

(No Funding)

$1,744

(No Funding)

$1,744

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

Thierry Do
Founding Partner
Atelier Modus
Thierry Do
Founding Partner
Atelier Modus
Over three decades, Thierry has honed his design expertise across the globe from Singapore to Canada. His experiences include designing new passenger experiences for the first French high-speed train TGV Duplex to powering corporate innovation with large organisations in Japan, and setting up the first national Design Thinking and Innovation Academy in Singapore. As a serial entrepreneur, Thierry likes to challenge himself by taking the path off the beaten track; the only way to quench his thirst for adventures and human narratives. Besides running Atelier Modus, he teaches design thinking as Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, and Adjunct Faculty at Singapore Management University. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee at the School of Media, Arts and Design at Singapore Polytechnic.

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