COMMUNITY
OF PRACTICE
INNOVATED
BY DESIGN
GHENT '24
Are you eager to enhance your innovation skills and master design-research techniques for significant impact? If you recognise the importance of business model innovation and are focused on achieving meaningful outcomes, our Community of Practice Innovated by Design is ideal for you. Join a network of dedicated innovators and experts, and elevate your practice in a community committed to making a difference.
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Who should attend?
This program is designed for you when you are:
✔︎ Innovation Manager
✔︎ Product Owner
✔︎ Designer, and you are strongly engaged in your companies innovations
Why should you attend?
You share your knowledge and experiences with your peers, as they do. In addition to the knowledge you get from the experts, this program is real-world learning
What can you expect?
Six days of interactive sessions will energise you to put your hands to the plow. Guided by peers and experts you do this already during the sessions, building your own case
THE PROGRAM
DAY 1 | 11|10|24
STAGING INNOVATION AS WE SEE IT
Innovation is a catalyst for transformation. Drawing inspiration from groundbreaking concepts in the literature, we will look at innovation as a lever for creating value.
DAY 2 | 12|12|24
DESIGN THINKING AS A MEANS TO INNOVATE
Design thinking and design research can help us understand the needs and context of beneficiaries. Design thinking also helps ideating new ways to fulfil these needs.
DAY 3 | 14|02|25
BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION
The core of innovation is creating value and impact. Technology can be a means, but most important is how we bring value and create impact. Business model innovation is key.
DAY 4 | 04|04|25
PROTOTYPING AS MEANS TO RESEARCH AND TEST
Prototyping serves as a means to test at every stage of our innovation trajectory. Whether that is to test a first idea with rough prototyping or our final test before launch.
DAY 5 | 23|05|25
INNOVATE WITH THE DESIRED IMPACT IN MIND
Innovation is about creating value and making impact. In this session we learn how to measure the impact we have in mind, and to incorporate the impact in our innovation.
DAY 6 | 04|07|25
CREATING SUPPORT AND PITCHING INNOVATIONS
This day is designed to fortify your ability to cultivate a receptive environment, ensuring alignment with the governance structures that guide innovation within your organization.
Build Your Own Case
Why enrol?
✔︎ Share experiences with peers
✔︎ Learn from experts
✔︎ Acquire the tools to make it happen
✔︎ Apply on a real case
THE LECTURERS
We explore what innovation truly entails with Sarah Boone, professor Innovation at UGent
Design is all about research. Your first steps as an EPIC Designer are guided by Jan Van Caneghem
Business Model Innovation on the stairway to greatness, we do with Rudy Moenaert
Starting with the end in mind we begin doing in the impact evaluation session with Eva Wuyts
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"You can read a pile of books on design and innovation, but you will never learn from the lived experiences as you do in the Community of Practice Innovated by Design"
- Peter Bertels -
