Design Thinking Accelerator
Innovate, create, and collaborate your way to success with our world-leading Design Thinking Accelerator. You’ll work on a live organisational challenge alongside our V&A Design Associates who will guide you through a series of collaborative design tools. This will allow you to examine your challenge from every angle, create and test new ideas, and set you up for organisational gains that may very well surpass your expectations.
What to Expect
You and your teams will bring a live organisational challenge (or challenges) to the workshops where you will use design tools to:
• Set out what success looks like
• Consider and interview your stakeholders
• Create new ideas
• Assess and prioritise activity
• Present and frame your ideas effectively
• Prototype your solutions
All the while learning how to organise your thinking, collaborate and build on others’ ideas by giving and receiving valuable and constructive feedback.
The time commitment for the Design Thinking Accelerator is 3 days with opportunities for you to test your new design skills in between workshops. The first two days is all about digging into your challenge(s), testing your assumptions, and setting out your direction. Day three is where you crystallise your thinking into a prototype that you can go back into your organisation and develop.
Additional support
The Accelerator will challenge and stretch your team; however we know that the hard work really starts when you go back into your organisation and ‘business as usual’ takes over. That’s why our team at V&A Dundee and our Associates can be available to you to support you when you meet with the challenges that come from embedding innovation into a wider organisation.
Report
It can be tricky communicating the value of the Design Thinking Accelerator with people in your organisation who weren’t there. To help you out, the team at V&A Dundee will provide you with a summary of your activity and the outputs from the Accelerator so you can easily communicate the process by which you’ve reached your innovation, and gain buy-in from colleagues and stakeholders.
Coaching
Once you’ve experienced design thinking as a way of working, you may very well want to use the tools as part of your working practice. If you feel you require a little more support, our associates can be made available to jump on a call and provide coaching as you continue to use the tools after the programme. This extra support means that the positive effects of the Accelerator are felt in your organisation well beyond the three days you are with us at V&A Dundee.
Email designandinnovation@vandadundee.org to explore how our Design Thinking Accelerator can move your organisation forward.
