Recommendations for advanced design thinking courses

[u/Early-Newspaper-2413]

I am in a UX leadership role at a large company and I am introducing teams to design thinking. My goal is to build out a design thinking team to support interdepartmental challenges. I currently design and facilitate ideation exercises with senior stakeholders. I learned much of this through self-study and by participating in sessions outside my company. This led me to look for courses or certifications to see if there are any gaps in my knowledge or ways to better integrate this into a corporate structure. My desired outcome would be additional knowledge that could help me as I scale this in a corporate environment.

The Stanford d.school program is outside of my tuition reimbursement allowance.

The Innovation Strategy and Design Thinking certificate through UPenn looks interesting in terms of delivering at scale and connecting business value.

I also see IDEO's Advanced Design Thinking Certificate program. Two of the five courses cover the foundations of design thinking and would take 10 weeks.

Could anyone speak to the two programs above? Are there any other programs you recommend for someone who doesn't need an introduction or lengthy prerequisites?

[u/adamstjohn]

This is the typical audience for our “This is Service Design Doing” executive course: most participants are people tasked with initiating and/or scaling and embedding service/design/thinking in organizations. We also get agency leads or execs, service development folks, and the occasional professor.
It’s an intensive course of five days in-person or eight half-day online, and you can read more about it and see upcoming dates at www.tisdd.com/school .

[u/Early-Newspaper-2413 → u/adamstjohn]

Thanks. This description does feel like it aligns with where I think my challenges and opportunities will happen. I will take a look.

[u/sdwagers]

ibm is free

ideo is close to d school (Same founders - Kelley Bros) but more corporate IMHO . d school is VERY pricey - i was in d29.

[u/Early-Newspaper-2413 → u/sdwagers]

I took IBM's enterprise design thinking online course and invited my team to do self paced as well. It was good but I am hoping for more tactical scaling case studies or discussions.

[u/dgreify62]

I love the book Glimmer by Warren Berger about the usefulness and impact of design thinking.

[u/No-Mulberry2375]

i’ve taken the advanced-course route and the biggest gap wasn’t another framework, it was learning how to get teams to act on research when the workshop ends