Design Thinking Starts With Me
TGS-2022014001
Course Overview
Design thinking is a useful tool that can help participants to innovate and problem solve, understanding the underlying customer’s needs and behaviors and then ultimately building quality customer relationships which leads to a sustainable source of revenue growth.
Design Thinking Starts With Me uses different prototyping methods such a sketching, or physical props to help stakeholders visualise the solution and to get buy in to the idea or solution. Previously, ideas and solutions are only verbalised or presented in written proposal and reports.
Training Type
Full Time
Who Should Attend
Supervisors, Middle Managers and Team leaders from any industrial sectors or businesses.
Course Duration
2 Days
Total Training Duration (Hour)
16
Course Outline
Learning Unit 1: Introduction to Design Thinking
- Understand the key concepts of design thinking
- Explain the 5 stages of Design Thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test stages of Design Thinking
- How to empathise and define the problem statement
Learning Unit 2: Identify Pain Points And Prototyping
- Practise SCAMPER, Creative Matrix and Analogy Concepts to brainstorm ideas
- Use sketches and physical props to showcase your prototypes
- Continue to test and reiterate your prototypes
Learning Unit 3: Use Design Thinking Concepts In Your Daily Work
- Apply Design Thinking mindset to your work problems
- Look at the problems and issues from the customer’s perspective
- Change the way problems are solved in your daily operations
Course Learning Outcome
On completion of the course, learners will be able to:
- Articulate the concept and importance of design thinking
- Explain the 5 stages of the design thinking process
- Apply design thinking methodologies to define a problem statement and generate ideas for a given problem statement
- Identify 2 different methods of applying design thinking in own organisation and apply the decision metrics to determine feasibility of design ideas and solutions
- Promote design thinking in own organization and articulate the importance and purpose of prototyping in the design thinking process
Pre-requisites
- Learners must be able to read, write, speak and listen to English at secondary school
- Learners to have minimum GCE ‘O’ level or ITE certificate education
- Learner should have at least 1 year’s working experience in any industry
Funding Information
05 Sep 2022 To 04 Sep 2026
Course Pre-Requisites
Price
| Course Fee Payable | ||
|---|---|---|
| Original Fee | Before GST | With GST (9%) |
| Course Fee | $600.00 | $654.00 |
| Individual Pricing (Fee payable to Training Provider) | Before GST | With GST (9%) |
| Individual (Baseline) | $300.00 | $354.00 |
| Individual (MCES) | $180.00 | $234.00 |
| Corporate Pricing (Fee payable to Training Provider) | ||
| SME | Before GST | With GST (9%) |
| Corporate (SME) | $180.00 | $234.00 |
| Non-SME | Before GST | With GST (9%) |
| Corporate (Non-SME, Baseline) | $300.00 | $354.00 |
| Corporate (Non-SME, MCES) | $180.00 | $234.00 |
Company Sponsored Funding Types
- SME
- Company registered or incorporated in Singapore AND employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
- 70% of course fee funded
- Non-SME (Baseline)
- Non-SME companies, employee is Singaporean or PR aged below 40
- 50% of course fee funded
- Non-SME (MCES)
- Non-SME companies, employee is Singaporean aged 40 years and above
- 70% of course fee funded
Absentee Payroll Funding for Companies:
- $4.50 per training hour capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year
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Self-sponsored Funding Types
- MCES
- Singaporean aged 40 years and above
- 70% of course fee funded
- Normal
- Singaporean / PR aged 21 years and above
- 50% of course fee funded
