Bootcamps / Business design
Systems Thinking and Facilitation for Businesses
An eight day immersive bootcamp: six days of systems thinking on a real challenge, then two days of facilitation as a leadership skill.
Next intakeDates to be announcedFee8,765,000 sats
One real challenge. Eight immersive days.
Work through the whole design process on a challenge from your own business, in four two day blocks, then learn to facilitate it for others. Theory and practice in balance, every module a live session.
- 8 days, live
- Your real challenge
- Live facilitation
Who it is for
Founders, product and service teams, designers and innovation leaders who want to think in systems and run innovation sessions for their own teams. Bring a real challenge.
Your eight modules
Two modules to a block. Each block builds on the last, from learning to think like a designer to facilitating the work as a leader.
Module 01 / Decision Making vs ThinkingDesign Thinking Introduction
Service design and innovation context. Innovation can be learned. Design as a process, with design case studies.
Output: A shared language for design as a process.
Module 02 / Decision Making vs ThinkingFast Forward Project
A random challenge taken through the whole double diamond: discover, define, develop, deliver.
Output: The full process run once, fast.
Module 03 / Framing the Innovation OpportunityDiscovery
Problem identification and design research. Case study, team alignment and triangulation research.
Output: A framed design problem and a field research plan.
Module 04 / Framing the Innovation OpportunitySensemaking and Point of View
Identifying unmet needs and creating innovative insights. Empathy map, persona and journey mapping.
Output: An insight and a How Might We question.
Module 05 / Solving the Problem in ContextDivergence
Ideation and prototyping. Collaborative teams and diversity, from insight to concepts, low and high fidelity prototypes.
Output: Concepts, a storyboard and a prototype.
Module 06 / Solving the Problem in ContextExperimentation
Testing and iterating with people and stakeholders. Iteration and design critique.
Output: Test findings and the next iteration.
Module 07 / The Facilitation SkillFacilitation Design Introduction
Facilitation in context, leadership through design and facilitation, workshop design, difficult types and their antidotes.
Output: A workshop plan of your own.
Module 08 / The Facilitation SkillSimulations
Facilitating projects and teams, cocreation and facilitation, a real life simulation with the cohort.
Output: A facilitated session, run and reviewed.
What you will work on
- A framed business challenge and the research behind it
- A tested prototype of the key experience
- Twelve boards drawn on the live board, from the empathy map to the executive buy in map
- A workshop you have planned and facilitated yourself
Make space for the work.
Use live discussion, hands-on making and feedback to move the challenge forward. The session schedule and delivery arrangements will be confirmed with the intake.