{"id":1339,"date":"2018-05-29T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=1339"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T15:27:07","slug":"a4q-design-thinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/en\/services\/education\/a4q-design-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"A4Q Design Thinking Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Why<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1507 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Logo-Design-Thinking-1-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Logo-Design-Thinking-1-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Logo-Design-Thinking-1-768x314.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Logo-Design-Thinking-1-1024x418.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.taraxacum.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Logo-Design-Thinking-1.jpg 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Design Thinking, what is it anyway?\u00a0A method &#8211; an approach &#8211; a culture &#8211; a mindset?<br \/>\nYes, indeed, all of it!<\/p>\n<p>Design Thinking is becoming increasingly popular among professionals who want to deliver better solutions to their users; innovative solutions for wicked, ill-defined problems.<br \/>\nSo actually for the problems that organizations are really concerned with today.<br \/>\nDesign Thinking is based on two pillars: empathy and creativity.<br \/>\nA continuous focus on early feedback, prototyping and co-creation with users mitigates the risk of innovation.<\/p>\n<h4>Target audience<\/h4>\n<p>The A4Q Design Thinking Foundation training is intended for professionals from business and IT who want to develop their empathy and creativity skills, and seek practical tools from a well-developed theoretical framework.<br \/>\nThe Design Thinking ideas fit perfectly into an Agile approach and are a must for anyone involved in innovation.<\/p>\n<h4>Business outcomes<\/h4>\n<p>A person who participated in the A4Q Design Thinking Foundation training<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>knows the basics of Design Thinking,<\/li>\n<li>knows the three most important schools: Double Diamond, Stanford d.school and Designing for Growth<\/li>\n<li>knows the four &#8216;steps&#8217; that make up the Designing for Growth approach,<\/li>\n<li>has practiced the ten techniques that are applied in Designing for Growth,<\/li>\n<li>knows what circumstances support innovation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the end of the training you will take a multiple-choice exam. The Design Thinking certificate is awarded to you if you successfully pass it.<\/p>\n<h4>Training<\/h4>\n<p>This 4 dayparts training is derived from the Design Thinking syllabus that you can download from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/isqi.org\/nl\/de\/a4q-design-thinking-foundation-level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iSQI<\/a>\u00a0website.<br \/>\nIt is an interactive combination of theory, exercises and practice exam questions, that prepares the candidate for both the exam and the actual application in practice.<br \/>\nThe exam is part of the training and will be taken collectively at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Design Thinking, what is it anyway?\u00a0A method &#8211; an approach &#8211; a culture &#8211; a mindset? Yes, indeed, all of it! 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