Your partner in developing Design Thinking & Innovation Capability. Learning by Doing is our mantra. These capabilities need to be developed and maintained.
Our mission is to provide space and time for teams and individuals to be inspired and challenged, to learn by doing and strengthen their ability for creative problem solving. People and teams in organizations are under growing pressure to be more flexible, entrepreneurial and customer centered. Organizations are under a growing pressure to differentiate themselves, create a sustainable business an
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29/03/2023
Design Thinking vs AI - who wins?
Can AI beat humans when it comes to Innovation and Human-Centred solutions? Last week DesignThinkers assembled an amazing diverse group of Africans from a variety companies and countries learning about Design Thinking from expert facilitators, coaches and “Dragons” while working on a challenge related to the UN’s 6th Sustainable Development Goal - Ensure availability ...
What makes the Africa Bootcamp a must do? Its unique, its fast and it involves serious play – with people!
• Firstly we have a unique combination of facilitators and coaches that will push your boundaries and world views on how to innovate effectively
• Secondly we are focused on how to do life-centred design and creating shared value while working on SDG’s related to an industry related challenge
• Thirdly, we try as hard as possible to simulate design sprints as they could be run in your organisation which gives you the muscle memory to do it beyond the training
• Fourthly, you have the option to take the concepts further in your organisation and DesignThinkers will support concept development beyond the Bootcamp to its fruition
• Finally your concept or a derivate thereof can be pitched at the Open Design festival to a Dragon’s Den at the end of October to obtain seed funding or ….
*DT African Bootcamps takes place in Cape Town from 14 - 17 March, sign up here : https://lnkd.in/dSi6T8tT
07/02/2023
Meet your Design Thinkers DT African Bootcamp facilitators & coaches!
Jani de K**k is a master researcher and will facilitate the sense-making component of the Bootcamp.
Jani helps brands and organizations understand their employees, customers and stakeholders. Brands she has worked on include MasterCard, Coca-Cola, KFC, BP, Nickelodeon, Sanlam, Johnson and Johnson and many more. She is also proud to have consulted to The United Nations.
She believes one can tell a lot about a place from its Supermarkets.
The DT Bootcamp takes place from 14 to 17 March in Cape Town. Contact [email protected] to sign up / https://fb.me/e/2fH49MNWU
03/02/2023
Meet your Design Thinkers DT African Bootcamp facilitators & coaches!
Vuyisa Qabaka, or Chief as he is affectionately known, has spent the past 12 years setting up creative business strategies and innovation hubs, like Nigeria, Kenya, Malaysia and Israel and in multiple African countries. He is a qualified lean start-up trainer and small business advisor, investor and capital fundraiser. He consults at executive committee level, with a focus on offbeat social initiatives, and bringing disruptive market positioning.
Vu joins our Bootcamp as co-host and facilitator and with his past experience as TV presenter of Business Beat on Cape Town TV, he brings a great energy to the room!
The DT Bootcamp takes place from 14 to 17 March in Cape Town. Contact [email protected] to sign up / https://fb.me/e/2fH49MNWU
01/02/2023
Meet your Design Thinkers DT African Bootcamp facilitators & coaches!
Robert Bloom (DesignThinkers Managing Partner) is the lead facilitator and co-host of the Bootcamp. He has facilitated thousands of workshops around the world and loves helping participants find their way through the mist and into clarity.
As a Systems Thinking practitioner, Robert helps teams make sense of complexity and shift from problems into desirable solutions. He is looking forward to meeting a diverse group of participants from all over and seeing them perform on the innovation theatre stage!
The DT Bootcamp takes place from 14 to 17 March in Cape Town. Contact [email protected] to sign up / https://fb.me/e/2fH49MNWU
Sign up to our Cape Town bootcamp here: https://lnkd.in/dSi6T8tT
26/01/2023
The DesignThinkers African Bootcamp is designed for:
- Emerging Leaders | with the drive to strengthen the organization’s innovation approach and lead problem solving capability
- Managers or Team leaders | seeking to integrate cutting-edge creative practices that drive collaborative innovation in teams and generate new value propositions
- Senior government policy makers | who want to improve their ability to create sustainable solutions to challenging societal problems
- Professionals | from any sector interested in working with this quintessential technology that enables hybrid teams to innovate effectively.
- Executives | Who want to learn an essential framework for accessing new opportunities to influence corporate culture and help teams disrupt the competition.
For more info contact [email protected] or check out the link here: https://lnkd.in/dSi6T8tT
You are at the end of the year! You made it ! Well done! Now that is something to celebrate.
In the southern hemisphere it is hot, maybe stinking hot. So you might be drinking an ice cool beverage to stay hydrated. In the North, you are trying to avoid flu and drinking hot drinks to stay warm. Whatever it is that you are drinking, make sure it is with people who you love.
27/12/2022
"The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?"
- Sandra Cisneros
20/12/2022
Barriers to innovation can easily be overcome. It starts with identifying what they are. Can you identify other barriers in your environment?
13/12/2022
A recent McKinsey study showed that over a 5 year period, companies who were most skilled at implementing design principles achieved 32% more revenue and 52% more returns to shareholders than their less skilled counterparts.
09/12/2022
Thinking about 2022 - do any of these inhibitors resonate with you? Don't despair if they do; by understanding them, the pathway can be cleared.
04/11/2022
Have you been thinking about joining one of our DesignThinkers African Bootcamps in 2023? Then join us for this complimentary webinar to meet some of the facilitators and hear a bit more about how Design Thinking can enhance your approach to creative problem solving.
There is still time to sign up - sessions available on the 7th of November or the 9th of November.
*Email [email protected] to sign up!*
Empathy starts with a simple greeting. Once you have opened up a conversation, learn to listen to and uncover real needs that lie below the surface. Make sense of how pain points map to a given set of needs.
At DesignThinkers we help you understand and prioritize a needs set and translate these to opportunities to co-create value.
Are you at the outset of a new role that requires a fresh approach? Are you happy with the status quo? If not, read on!
The outcome of DesignThinkers courses is to have the muscle memory and creative confidence to pollinate, drive and stimulate creative problem solving and human centred design. Effective innovators are focused, they enable those around them to deliver fresh concepts that disrupt the status quo.
Don’t allow malaise, fear of change or other barriers to prevent you from creating new opportunities for success. Kick-off a new career path, talk to DesignThinkers to learn the secrets behind effective innovation.
18/07/2022
"It always seems impossible until it is done' NRM. Happy birthday to the man we all continue to learn from.
In celebration of Madiba, we can recommend Richard Stengel's 'Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love and Courage'. It is a testament to the extraordinary will of the human spirit regarding love, life, and courage.
Feel like some human to human interaction? Get back into the real world with DesignThinkers creative problem solving training.
Reactivate your problem solving capability in our in-studio or online trainings (all conducted in-person with experienced facilitators).
Check the calendar / sign up here: https://www.designthinkersacademy.com/southafrica/calendar/
13/05/2022
Read more about the Power of Story here : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovation-leadership-how-avoid-losing-momentum-projects-robert-bloom/?trackingId=eOAu%2B1kmOZKPpbO18C%2F8zg%3D%3D
Sounds good? Our Strategic Storytelling course starts on the 26th of May - sign up here: www.designthinkersacademy.com/southafrica/course-catalogue/2-week-online-strategic-storytelling-course/
Hey! Are you in the in the mood for a good (innovation) story? Join Colin, Daryl & the rest of the LiveWire team tomorrow @ 12 sast for our Creative LiveWire.
Email [email protected] for a link.
28/04/2022
We are really excited for this one! Join us to share your innovation story and find inspiration in the stories of others!
DM for invite / email [email protected]
27/04/2022
"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others".
Nelson Mandela
Happy Freedom Day, South Africa.
26/04/2022
What an honour to help my Dubai co-founder of DesignthinkersAcademy train a leading bank in on the foundations of agile leadership. Design new products and services using and to cocreate improved customer experiences.
Happy World Creativity & Innovation day! Today is marked to raise awareness about the important roles that innovation and creativity play in every aspect of human development.
Join the conversation by completing this short survey that will inform our next Creative Livewire : https://sprw.io/stt-0433d2
"Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."
— Theodore Levitt
Flex that risk muscle.
"Innovation takes resourcefulness, grit, tact and stealth to shift things...."
Read more here : http://ow.ly/NKco50IJGat
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
- Harriet Tubman
“A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.”
- Shigeru Miyamoto
We are back and ready for a year filled with good ideas and multiple solutions!
05/01/2022
Have you wondered why empathy is so important? Here’s one reason made up of two words.
Happy Holidays!
Our office will be closed from the 23rd of December 2021 to the 5th of January 2022 - to rest & recharge & prepare for the new year!
See you soon!
ps - if there are any urgent matters, please send us an email? We'll be checking in occasionally!
Find the courage to make a difference, to question the unquestionable, to experiment with new concepts and ideas that might add value or delight the actors over which you have influence....
Read more on the Undiscovered Country and thoughts on Alignment here : http://ow.ly/hbkg50HfvJC
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