Programme Content
Programme Content
Design thinking mindset
Empathy in inquiry
Perspectives and points of view
Cultivating ideation skills
From ideation to prototyping
Overcoming fear of failure
Design thinking in action
Design Thinking for Leaders
IIM Bangalore - Executive Education
General Management
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Partner Institution
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About Programme
“The future belongs to those who can design it, and in an era shaped by complexity, leaders leveraging a design thinking mindset – which integrates empathy, ideation and collaboration – will be the drivers of user-focused innovation with genuine impact”
Design Thinking for Leaders is an Executive Education programme from IIM Bangalore designed to help senior leaders, business executives and innovation professionals solve complex business challenges using human-centred design. By combining empathy, creativity, experimentation and strategic thinking, the programme enables leaders to drive innovation, improve customer experiences and build future-ready organisations.
Today’s leaders operate in an environment defined by rapid technological change, shifting customer expectations and increasing business complexity. Traditional approaches to problem-solving are often insufficient to address these evolving challenges.
Design Thinking is a human-centred approach to innovation that enables leaders to understand user needs, redefine problems, generate creative ideas and test solutions through rapid experimentation.
The Design Thinking for Leaders programme at IIM Bangalore provides a structured, hands-on learning experience that equips participants with practical tools and frameworks to solve complex business problems, improve customer experiences and drive strategic innovation within their organisations.
Programme Objective
Understanding and applying the design thinking mindset in your role as a leader
Learning to challenge underlying assumptions and get underneath surface level observations and conclusions
Learning structured methods to develop creative confidence in individuals and teams
Understanding, mapping, and leveraging your network of beneficiaries and stakeholders from an empathetic perspective
Overcoming the fear of failure and building a culture that learns through prototyping and experimentation
Learning how to implement a systematic approach to foster innovation in your organization
Pedagogy
This programme follows a highly interactive and experiential learning approach, combining:
Participants will engage in practical applications to ensure immediate relevance and impact in their professional contexts.
Programme Audience
This programme is designed for senior leaders who:
Want to drive innovation and organisational transformation.
Make strategic decisions in complex and uncertain environments.
Seek to integrate creativity into leadership and business growth.
Wish to strengthen collaboration and cross-functional problem-solving.
Lead teams responsible for innovation, customer experience or business transformation.
Programme Benefits
As a participant of this Short Duration Programme, you will be able to enjoy some exclusive benefits other than the outcomes such as skills and knowledge enhancement and building specific competencies that can help shape your career growth.
Some of the exclusive benefits of attending this programme are listed below –
Receive Executive Education eNewsletters.
Invitation to share articles to the EEP blog (subject to a shortlisting process)
Participate in EEP webinars on various topics
Invitation to curated events and programs by the EEP office
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