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Design is an intentional intervention to change something for the better. It is about making an impact. Empathy drives us to understand this desired impact.
Although we embrace creative thinking, we aim for the best results and assess the processes with the EPIC-design assessment tool.
A human-centred design approach is our default way of working. Design projects with a broader societal impact make our hearts beat faster.
In this Community of Practice, we will tackle business model innovation, prototyping, innovative organisations, impact evaluation, design thinking and design research. We will have six offline workshops over one year, starting on January 12th ’24 in Milan (Italian), January 26th ’24 in Cologne (German) and February 2nd ’24 in Ghent (Dutch).
CoP Innovated by Design
MILAN | 2024
Learn to uncover the needs to innovate from the perspective of our beneficiaries, to establish an innovation culture and evaluate impact.
Host: Mila Stepanovic
Start: January 12, 2024
Language: Italian
Duration: 6 days
Price: € 3750,00
CoP Innovated by Design
COLOGNE | 2024
Learn to uncover the needs to innovate from the perspective of our beneficiaries, to establish an innovation culture and evaluate impact.
Host: Tom Maes
Start: January 26, 2024
Language: German
Duration: 6 days
Price: € 3750,00
CoP Innovated by Design
GHENT | 2024
Learn to uncover the needs to innovate from the perspective of our beneficiaries, to establish an innovation culture and evaluate impact.
Host: Jan Van Caneghem
Start: February 2, 2024
Language: Dutch
Duration: 6 days
Price: € 3750,00
CoP Strategic Innovation
Brussels | 2024
How do you align a portfolio of innovations with the strategy of your organisation and how do you do so from a foresight perspective?
Host: Jan Van Caneghem
Start: February 23, 2024
Language: English
Duration: 6 days
Price: € 5250,00
The book that helps you become the EPIC designer of our tomorrows tells us why we need more creative thinking to achieve innovation. The EPIC design maturity model gives you the tools to get started.
To enable ourselves and our customers to use creative-thinking methodologies to gather divergent ideas on the one hand and to converge to the best outcomes on the other, we use two methodologies.
The first is the process framework FIDL, which guides us through the process in four phases: frame the need or problem, ideate on all possible solutions, design the most preferred one and launch and iterate.
The second is the EPIC-design assessment tool, which enables you to self-assess your empathic mindset, the process you have designed, the impact measuring you have in place and the organisational character. This self-assessment applies to the four phases of the process.
Empathy
How to consider the needs of the people you work for and their context, in every step of the design of your innovation?
Process
Developing new services and products asks for a safe context in which employees can think creatively and experiment. But there is also a need for a well-developed process.
Impact
How do you consider the impact you want to make ? To what extend is that impact part of your reseach ?
Character
An impactful innovation you only develop in an organization with an open, inquisitive and supportive character.