IN-PERSON WORKSHOP FOR TEAMS AND COMPANIES
Design Thinking & Innovation Mindset workshop
Through practical exercises, you will immerse yourself in a creative thinking process and discover how to generate innovative solutions to any problem.
In-person workshop
Includes prototyping material
A Human-Centered Approach to Innovation
Design Thinking is an iterative process that combines creativity and analysis to arrive at more human, innovative, and sustainable solutions. It advocates for a flexible and open mindset to new ideas through tools that will help you manage projects and initiatives.
By combining Design Thinking with specific techniques and exercises to foster an innovation-oriented mindset, we can better equip ourselves to navigate the rapidly changing world.
Organizations that have trusted my Design Thinking workshops
In-person / online
Why Design Thinking?
Successful innovations throughout history share fundamental common factors. Two of these factors are related to the ability to experiment, fail/learn, and the need to solve real problems for people and societies.
In today's world of rapid change, innovation is no longer an option for organizations. It is essential to adopt new tools and ways of doing things to remain competitive and sustainable.
This is where an innovation-oriented mindset and tools like Design Thinking come into play. Design Thinking focuses on problem-solving and promotes a flexible, adaptable, and open mindset to new ideas and creative solutions.
Where can I apply Design Thinking?
COMPANIES
To develop creative solutions to problems and improve your products and services.
GOVERNMENTS
To create more effective and efficient policies.
EDUCATION
To create innovative instructional methods and curricula.
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
To generate a more targeted and relevant impact on your social objectives.
Who is it for?
- Project managers
- Product and service developers
- Change agents
- Innovation Directors
- Consultants
- Entrepreneurs
What are you going to learn in this workshop?
Identifying the Importance of Defining the Problem: Recognize the significance of clearly defining the problem to be addressed. This forms the foundation for effective innovation, ensuring that efforts are focused on addressing the right challenge.
Generating a Multitude of Potential Solutions: Harness creativity and various ideation tools to generate a vast array of potential solutions. Encourage diverse perspectives and approaches to uncover unconventional and innovative ideas.
Transforming Ideas into Sustainable Products and Services: Translate ideas and concepts into sustainable products and services. Consider the environmental, social, and economic implications of the solutions to ensure long-term viability.
Fostering an Innovation-Oriented Mindset: Acquire knowledge of tactics and tools to cultivate an innovation-oriented mindset within the organization. Encourage a culture of experimentation, risk-taking, and continuous learning.
Efficiently Prototyping Selected Ideas: Prototype the selected ideas efficiently to transform them into validated products. Utilize appropriate prototyping techniques to create tangible representations of your solutions for further testing and refinement.
Emphasize the importance of collaboration and teamwork. Bring together diverse expertise and perspectives to enhance problem-solving and solution development.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement and iteration.
Embrace the value of failure as a learning opportunity.
We incorporate the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence as part of the workshop tools.
Why should I have an innovation-oriented mindset in my organization?
- Help your company stay competitive: Innovation is essential to stay competitive in an increasingly saturated market. If your company is not innovating, it is very likely that it will fall behind compared to the competition.
- Improve productivity and efficiency: innovation can help your company improve its processes and increase its productivity and efficiency. By finding more efficient ways of doing things, your business can save valuable time and resources.
Attract and retain top talent: Innovative companies often attract top talent, as people often want to work in environments where they can have the opportunity to contribute ideas and contribute to progress.
Help your business grow: Innovation can help your business find new growth opportunities and increase its customer base.
Workshop topics
MODULE 1: Introduction
MODULE 2: DISCOVERY
MODULE 3: DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM
Module 4: SOLUTION IDEATION
Module 5: PROTOTYPING
MODULE 6: Validation
MODULE 7: Closure
Testimonials
Banco del Pacífico con GLIA / 2024
- Very practical, enjoyable, and valuable course
- Excellent learning experience
- Very good presentation
- Very educational and applicable to our daily lives
- Very practical, the best workshop
Banco del Pacífico con GLIA / 2024
- Excellent instructor
- Excellent case studies with prototypes
- Interesting and practical tips
- Very well organized
- Excellent module
Agroarriba
- Excellent course, very practical and enriching.
- The instructor brought value to the company's reality.
- Very good, he gave us accessible apps for prototyping.
Hotel Oro Verde
- Excellent information and work methodology. Supported and guided to generate innovative solutions.
- Very good course
- Practical and useful
- What I learned is very useful to me
Hotel Oro Verde
- Excellent information and way of transmitting information
- Excellent useful tools to convert ideas into innovation projects
- Excellent, the information was used to the maximum.
- The class was very dynamic with participation and practical work according to the module
Excellent information and work methodology. Supported and guided to generate innovative solutions.Sebastián Lucumí - Farmaenlace / 2023
A person with extensive knowledge who knows how to empathize with those trained.Fausto Acosta - Farmaenlace / 2023
A person who allows us to understand the subject and gives ideas so that what has been learned can be applied in daily life.Jeferson Ayala - Farmaenlace / 2023
Excellent facilitator / good experience and methodology.Jessica Cheza - Farmaenlace / 2023
Ease of expressing oneself and reaching people.Paul Solano de la Sala - Farmaenlace / 2023
Very dynamic/proactive and excellent facilitator.José Usiña - Farmaenlace / 2023
Excellent professional, knows the subject very well and shows mastery and agile and modern tools.Romina Sánchez Amador - Generatrust / 2022
Excellent instructor, easy to answer questions, we take away learnings whose challenge is to apply it in our daily lives!Brenda Domínguez Sarmiento - Banco de Machala / 2022
Michael dominates the methodology and is very playful in the explanation.José Villegas Pico - Granasa / 2022
It has been a very enriching experience, I was able to learn what was necessary to apply the methodology in my workplace.Sonia Avarez - Palmaplast / 2019
Continue with your excellent work, I really liked the tools that facilitated collaborative work despite the distance, it was a very enriching experience.Nodel in-house / 2022
Excellent, very good experience of living Design Thinking.José Erazo - UCSG / 2020
Dynamic, very didactic. Practical, excellent.Nohelia Manosalvas - Ecuasanitas / 2020
Excellent, very complete and interactive.Wendy León - Promesa / 2020
Facilitator
Michael Müller
Through Design Thinking workshops, I help teams adopt an innovator's mindset and drive transformation within their organizations. My approach is based on practicality and achieving results.
I firmly believe in the power of human-centered design to create the best possible experience. With over 20 years of designing interfaces and experiences, I have participated in web and e-commerce projects for leading corporations and financial institutions in Ecuador.
Impact Tank Ecuador trainer, founder of iconiza.com and monitorica.com, and member of the Interaction Design Foundation.
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12 hours of face-to-face team workshop
Two sessions of 6 hours each, where you will work on a selected case (problem) in a practical way and as a team.
Real cases and examples
We will see several real cases of the application of the methodology that will support you with creative ideas, bringing you closer to the user-centered mentality.
All the material to prototype
You will receive everything you need to build a prototype that you will validate with users.
Guías y tableros para descargar
You will have access to several printable PDF canvases, including the Design Thinking Canvas, designed especially for this workshop. Learn more in this article.
Do you have questions?
- Get answers in the frequently asked questions.
- Ask me questions via Email.
- Contact me on networks: Instagram / Linkedin.
Modalities of the Design Thinking workshop
In-house workshop
In-house workshop
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