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Future based Innovation

Short Course inFuture Based Innovation

The Future Based Innovation online short course proposes innovative management of design processes. The programme aims to provide managers, entrepreneurs and professionals with the practical knowledge to use the design process and methodology to think differently about strategic and innovation decisions.

It introduces design methods and tools for unleashing imagination, creativity and intuition in order to address uncertainty and manage innovation decision-making differently from business-as-usual. The programme teaches a way of thinking through design to make effective decisions about futures-oriented innovation.

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Course Details

Duration 18 hours

Location Online

Language English

Fee € 1.500

THE COURSE

An online programme made up of 7 sessions with a mix of theoretical and practical activities.

Duration: 7 sessions
Hours: 18 hours of learning + 12 hours of individual study
Period: Autumn 2023

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This programme is targeted primarily to:

Managers in profit and no-profit organisations,
Managers in public institutions or similar,
Entrepreneurs or managers in start-ups or small companies,
Professionals.

The course requires no specific background in design or related fields.

All relevant concepts and methods will be explained in introductory talks that will enable an effective engagement of participants into planned practical activities.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Participants will:

acquire a new mindset and master a creative futures-oriented approach to innovation
recognise signals of change and emerging trends to envision future scenarios and identify new opportunities for innovation

At the end of the course participants will get a DOMUS ACADEMY CERTIFICATE.

Course Structure

DESIGN BASED INNOVATION

HOW TO USE DESIGN PROCESS AND METHODS TO UNLEASH CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION.

The first session aims to introduce different design approaches and methodologies to foster innovation by providing participants with theoretical and practical knowledge to experiment design methods in a daily context.

HANDS-ON SESSION: Moments of change
TIMING: 2,5 hours

FUTURES-ORIENTED INNOVATION

EXPLORE THE ROLE OF DESIGN IN SHAPING FUTURE ALTERNATIVES TO ENABLE DECISION-MAKING.

The second session provides an introduction to futures-oriented practices as a way to reduce uncertainty while identifying emerging possibilities for innovation.

HANDS-ON SESSION: Scope definition
TIMING: 2,5 hours

HORIZON SCANNING

IDENTIFY SIGNALS AND EXTRAPOLATE FORECASTS TO FOSTER LONG-TERM STRATEGIC DECISIONS.

The third session aims to learn how to stretch the vision by analysing signals of change and adopting a long-term perspective to discover innovation pportunities.

HANDS-ON SESSION: Signal scanning
TIMING: 2,5 hours

FUTURE SCENARIOS

HOW TO BUILD FUTURE SCENARIOS TO IMPROVE INNOVATION DECISIONS TODAY.

The fourth session helps understand how to combine signals and forecasts to envision strategic future scenarios and nurture ideas for innovation.

HANDS-ON SESSION: Scenario building
TIMING: 2,5 hours

FUTURE VISION

HOW TO GROUND FUTURE VISION TO ACCELERATE THE INNOVATION PIPELINE.

The fifth session focuses on building a future vision from the envisioned scenarios in order to generate ideas and turn them into innovation actions.

HANDS-ON SESSION: Imagined world
TIMING: 2,5 hours

TAKE ACTION

DEFINE A STRATEGIC ROADMAP AND RUN EXPERIMENTS FOR INNOVATION.

The sixth session provides tools to build a roadmap to evaluate the developed ideas in the short, medium and long term in order to define a list of strategic initiatives that make innovation actionable.

HANDS-ON SESSION: Action roadmap
TIMING: 2,5 hours

ELEVATOR PITCH

PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION.

In the last session participants share the final results and roadmap of initiatives. Participants reflect on the key learnings of the programme.

TIMING: 3 hours

Key Topics

1. DESIGN BASED INNOVATION

Innovation as a process
Divergence and convergence
Designer’s mindset
Culture of experimentation

2. FUTURES-ORIENTED INNOVATION

Design & Futures
Traditional Design vs Speculative Design
Futures & Foresight
Anticipatory Innovation

3. HORIZON SCANNING

Futures literacy
Futures research
Sensing vs. Scanning
Signal scouting

4. FUTURE SCENARIOS

Alternative scenarios
Preferable Futures
Images of the Future
Everyday Futures

5. FUTURE VISION

Shaping futures
Future vision
Idea generation
Generative methods

6. TAKE ACTION

Roadmapping
Action roadmap
Commitment to action
Start making future today

7. ELEVATOR PITCH

Presentation
Final results sharing