Academic Overview
The Design Thinking Program at the Tombolo Institute at Bellevue College is intended to train you and develop your abilities to apply innovative Design Thinking principles to increase ROI at your organization. Learn to analyze, manage, and build techniques to create and deliver unique and valuable experiences in the marketplace. Develop your strategies to solve messy, real-world problems and help you to communicate results. Gain technical, analytical and communication skills through our human-centered interdisciplinary curriculum, which seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new way of doing business.
Who Should Attend
Design Thinking and creative problem-solving innovation involves everyone in your organization. Therefore, the program is ideal for a wide variety of backgrounds, including:
- Director of Business Development
- Vice President of Marketing
- Senior Marketing Manager
- Brand Manager
- Financial Analyst
- Marketing Director
- Marketing Manager
- Director of Operations
- Business Intelligence Manager
- Product Manager
- Project Manager
- Entire Project Teams
Interdisciplinary Approach |
Practical Outcomes |
Design Thinking requires you to work as a team across disciplines to achieve real results. Our curriculum is designed to engage you and your peers in hands-on learning opportunities to solve real-world problems.
Hands-On LearningOur program is designed to lead you in solving real-world problems by facilitating exercises and simulations. Our interactive, hands-on sessions utilize best-practice methods and frameworks. In our online offerings, you'll have access to weekly virtual interaction with faculty and peers.
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Our faculty and leadership consult directly with organizations in today's marketplace ensuring you will leave the program with skills and knowledge to ask the right questions and manage your teams using the Design Thinking Approach.
Actionable ToolkitDuring the program, you'll complete your own Professional Design Thinking Portfolio and apply your learnings toward your Capstone Project: a real or hypothetical problem, solution and strategic plan.
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Key Takeaways
- Customer Research Methods - Segmentation, Persona, Emotional Response, Feedback
- Data Analytics - Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics
- Innovation Tools - Refinement, Iteration & Testing
- Measurement & ROI - Success Criteria & Experience KPIs