MIT Sloan Design Thinking | Online Certificate Program

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3 Reasons Why You Should Enroll

World-Class Faculty

Learn design thinking from world-class MIT Sloan faculty

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Create Solutions

Identify customer needs & create solutions from concept to completion

Practical Models

Apply innovation models to solve your critical business problems

What You Will Learn

Innovation
Design Thinking
Applied Creativity
Product Development

Systematic Innovation
Concept Development
User-centered Innovation

Creative Problem Solving
Storyboards
Business Impact

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Your Learning Journey

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Program Topics

Module 1:

Design Thinking Skills

Learn how to apply the three innovation challenges model to a business/product/service while exploring the cases of Airbnb and Apple.

Module 2:

Identify Customer Needs

Grasp the concepts of opportunity evaluation and concept development by identifying a product or service that meets a customer need.

Module 3:

Applied Creativity – Product Concept Generation

Develop a solution concept by understanding the basics of concept generation, down selection, sketch modeling and external and internal search.

Module 4:

Design of Services and Customer Experience

Learn how to generate multiple innovations for one step in a service experience cycle and map out a detailed customer experience cycle for your product/service.

Module 5:

Financial Analysis

Discover how to use modeling to analyze a company's cash flow to maintain NPV and identify key components of financial analysis.

Module 6:

Environmental Stability

Identify environmental impacts that could occur over the life cycle of a product and the key components of Design for Environment (DFE) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

Module 1:

Design Thinking Skills

Learn how to apply the three innovation challenges model to a business/product/service while exploring the cases of Airbnb and Apple.

Module 4:

Design of Services and Customer Experience

Learn how to generate multiple innovations for one step in a service experience cycle and map out a detailed customer experience cycle for your product/service.

Module 2:

Identify Customer Needs

Grasp the concepts of opportunity evaluation and concept development by identifying a product or service that meets a customer need.

Module 5:

Financial Analysis

Discover how to use modeling to analyze a company's cash flow to maintain NPV and identify key components of financial analysis.

Module 3:

Applied Creativity – Product Concept Generation

Develop a solution concept by understanding the basics of concept generation, down selection, sketch modeling and external and internal search.

Module 6:

Environmental Stability

Identify environmental impacts that could occur over the life cycle of a product and the key components of Design for Environment (DFE) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

Faculty

Steve Eppinger

General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

Prof. Steve Eppinger is the Professor of Management Science & Engineering Systems as well as the Co-director for the System Design & Management Program. His research efforts are applied to improving product design and development practices. More info

Participant Speak

"Faculty videos, real examples, case studies, and assignments were very helpful in providing a better understanding of design thinking."

— Ramesh Arora, Assistant General Manager, TATA Power, India

"By far the first lesson was the most important lesson. That framework has steered the direction of the entire course and is absolutely critical to remember throughout the entire design process. Today, I'm leveraging that framework at my job to question the value/innovation that we provide with our marketing channels."

— Kevin Ly, Associate Director Commercial Analytics, Bristol Myers Squibb, New Jersey

"The course content and the collaboration with peers worldwide was a great learning experience. The outcome within a couple of weeks was astonishing!"

— Andreas Cem Vogt, Business Process Principal, Salesforce, Germany

"The examples that were used to illustrate the different aspects of product development were extremely helpful."

— Jenny Brown, UX & Product Development Specialist, Digital Incubation Center, Qatar

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Certificate

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded a verified digital certificate by Emeritus in collaboration with MIT Sloan.

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3 Reasons Why You Should Enroll

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Faculty

Steve Eppinger

General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

Participant Speak

— Ramesh Arora, Assistant General Manager, TATA Power, India

— Kevin Ly, Associate Director Commercial Analytics, Bristol Myers Squibb, New Jersey

— Andreas Cem Vogt, Business Process Principal, Salesforce, Germany

— Jenny Brown, UX & Product Development Specialist, Digital Incubation Center, Qatar

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Early registrations are encouraged. Seats fill up quickly!

Innovation of Products and Services: MIT's Approach to Design Thinking

Get Your Brochure

STARTS ON

DURATION

PROGRAM FEE

Special pricing for group enrollments

In collaboration

3 Reasons Why You Should Enroll

World-Class Faculty

Create Solutions

Practical Models

What You Will Learn

Your Learning Journey

Program Topics

Module 1:

Module 2:

Module 3:

Module 4:

Module 5:

Module 6:

Module 1:

Module 4:

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Faculty

Steve Eppinger

General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

Steve Eppinger

Participant Speak

— Ramesh Arora, Assistant General Manager, TATA Power, India

— Kevin Ly, Associate Director Commercial Analytics, Bristol Myers Squibb, New Jersey

— Andreas Cem Vogt, Business Process Principal, Salesforce, Germany

— Jenny Brown, UX & Product Development Specialist, Digital Incubation Center, Qatar

Certificate

Certificate

Early registrations are encouraged. Seats fill up quickly!