Design Thinking – Innovation by Design
- 5 day course
- Maximum 12 delegates
- 4 upcoming dates
- US$3,950
Led by World-leading specialist in Business and Operational Excellence
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Innovate with impact—turn empathy into exceptional solutions.
This engaging 5-day course immerses participants in the full Design Thinking cycle—from empathising and defining problems to ideating, prototyping, testing, and scaling solutions. Through structured frameworks, real-world case studies, creative labs, and collaboration, you’ll gain a transformative toolkit for solving complex challenges with user-centered precision.
Why this course is important
- Structured creativity drives real innovation: Design Thinking turns ambiguity into opportunity and aligns solutions with real user needs.
- Solving people-centered problems: Empathy-led approaches ensure products and services resonate deeply with those they serve.
- Embedding innovation in everyday work: With regular experimentation and prototyping, innovation becomes process, not exception.
Who should attend
- Product managers, service designers, and innovation leads seeking human-centred methodologies
- UX professionals, digital strategists, and experience architects focused on customer-first design
- Team leaders, entrepreneurs, and consultants solving cross-functional or complex challenges
- Transformation, R&D, marketing, and HR professionals aiming to embed continuous innovation in their teams
What you will learn
Over five dynamic days, participants will:
- Adopt a Design Thinking mindset – Understand its principles, stages, and power in problem solving
- Conduct deep user research – Use interviews, observation, and empathy mapping to uncover genuine needs
- Frame meaningful opportunities – Build affinity maps and clear problem statements to guide innovation
- Generate creative concepts – Apply SCAMPER, analogies, and structured ideation to spark breakthrough ideas
- Prototype rapidly – Develop low- and mid-fidelity prototypes to test and iterate concepts quickly
- Test with users – Run user tests, gather insights, and refine solutions based on feedback
- Foster an experimentation culture – Learn hypothesis-based iteration for continuous improvement
- Scale innovation practices – Embed rituals and routines that sustain creative teams long term
The Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 Career Accelerator
This is a public course, but it is also an integral part of NTUiTiV’s Vision 2030 Career Accelerator.
NTUiTiV’s Vision 2030 Career Accelerator courses empower young Saudi professionals to turn ambition into achievement. The Accelerator is designed to prepare you to take the lead and maximise your contribution to the Kingdom’s most exciting transformation – Vision 2030.
The Design Thinking course contributes to Vision 2030 by equipping Saudi professionals with the tools and mindset to drive innovation, solve complex challenges, and foster creativity across industries.
As Vision 2030 emphasises economic diversification, digital transformation, and the development of a knowledge-based economy, design thinking provides a structured methodology to generate breakthrough ideas and practical solutions.
By mastering empathy-driven problem solving, ideation, prototyping, and experimentation, Saudi professionals will be empowered to create user-centred innovations that enhance services, strengthen competitiveness, and accelerate the Kingdom’s journey toward global leadership in innovation and sustainable growth.
What participants say
Your course leader
World-leading specialist in Business and Operational Excellence
This speaker is a Management Educator and Consultant with extensive experience teaching MBA, Executive Education and Management Development Seminars and as a hands-on practitioner.
He has worked all over with world from Australia to the US, the Middle East, the UK, Western Europe and Asia, and always with a focus on achieving Business and Operational Excellence.
He is internationally recognised as a specialist in Operations Management and Business Performance Improvement, along with Statistical and Quantitative Methods, Project Management, Quality Management, Managing Innovation and e-Business.
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There is a cap of 12 seatsUS$3,950 / delegate
All NTUiTiV courses are both Accredited and Quality Assured by one of the leading CPD Accreditation providers: Qualitas Accreditas.
Paris, France
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