[New!] 2-Day Expanding Your Business Internationally



Overview

Business design thinking is a process that is human-centred and needs-driven. It focuses on uncovering and meeting unarticulated unmet needs in order to find solutions to all kinds of international business challenges in a creative way. Applying Design Thinking's user-centered approaches to uncover opportunities in new markets can help establish strategies to capture new customers. Design Thinking can provide businesses with ideas of what the foreign markets need and how to meet those needs. It enables strategic business decisions about internationalisation to be based on real, actual market exploratory research rather than merely raw assumptions and unguided gut feelings.

Course Outline

Day 1 :

1. Introducing The Concept of Design Thinking
- What is Design Thinking ?
- Why is Design Thinking relevant in today's businesses ?
- Sharing of Client-Project Case Study and exemplary organisations

2. Be Curious of Everything - The 3Ts

- What is Photo-Journaling ?
- Ways to capture Customer Experiences 

3. Planning the Photo-Journaling
- What variation to use ?
- Establishing the exploratory statement

4. Uncovering the Unarticulated Unmet Need
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The definition of Unarticulated Unmet Need
- How to uncover the unmet need ?

Day 2 :

1. Recap of lessons and examples learnt in Day 1 
- How can you apply empathy at work ?

2. Creating "Wild to WOW" ideas To Meet Unmet Needs
- Learn Divergent Principles to convert Wild ideas into WOW ideas

3. Co-creating the Solution Concept
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Synergising WOW ideas into a breakthrough solution concept

4. Prototyping Resources and Capabilities
- Identifying resources and Capabilities to guarantee success

5. Identifying Quick Wins
- identify high impact low resource ideas for quick wins

6. Presenting and Critiquing The Concept

Learning Objectives

The 2-day experiential workshop aims to introduce creative confidence through the principles and methodologies of Design Thinking - Empathy, Creativity and Strategy phases. It comprises a balance blend of interactive lectures, group work, individual practice, class discussion and out-of-class applications.

Who Should Attend

C-Suite, Business owners/leaders, Line Managers, Senior Executives who are responsible for decision making on business strategy, service innovation, productivity and process improvement for their organization.

Trainer Profile


Alfred 
Bachelor of Science, Hospitality Management (Florida International University, Miami USA)
Prior to his graduation from FIU in 2001, Alfred was selected by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC as Market Research Analyst to open The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park. After returning to Singapore, he continued his passion at The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore and went on to join Raffles Hotels & Resorts. His area of focus was Sales & Marketing, Special Events & Services and Employee Quality Selection. Alfred also dedicated 4 years of his career path to teaching in Singapore Polytechnic as a full-time lecturer where he developed and taught modules and curriculum specialising in Tourism and Business Design Thinking.



Ken
Bachelor in Business Administration with Honours (NUS), NUS Scholar
Master of Science (MSc) in Research
Ken's unique talent lies in his ability to synergise his sharp analytical mind and creative spirit to create user-centric innovations for sustainable growth. Ken spent more than 10 years with Singapore Polytechnic as a full-time lecturer where he developed and taught modules and curriculum specialising in Statistics and Business Design Thinking.

In 2010, both Alfred and Ken were among the selected few in Asia to go through an intensive 1-year certification programme from Rotman, the University of Toronto's prestigious graduate business school on Business Design Thinking methodology. They frequently practice, facilitate and impart their knowledge of Business Design Thinking to many SMEs, government agencies and learning institutions on educational and commercial level. They have been involved in Business Design workshops and consultancy projects for B2B and B2C enterprises ranging from diverse industries such as education, fashion retail, furniture retail, F&B, healthcare, social innovation and tourism etc.

Both Alfred and Ken are Singapore Certified Management Consultant by TUV SUD PSB.

Administrative Details

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160 Robinson Rd #06-01, SBF Center, Singapore 068914

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Ref No: SB190538

DISCLAIMER
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When
10/31/2019 9:00 AM - 11/6/2019 5:00 PM
Where
160 Robinson Road #06-01 SBF Center 068914

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