Design Thinking Starts With Me

Funding Validity Period
4 June 2022
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3 June 2026

Course Overview

Design thinking is a useful tool that can help participants to innovate and problem solve, understanding the underlying customer’s needs and behaviors and then ultimately building quality customer relationships which leads to a sustainable source of revenue growth.

Design Thinking Starts With Me uses different prototyping methods such a sketching, or physical props to help stakeholders visualise the solution and to get buy in to the idea or solution. Previously, ideas and solutions are only verbalised or presented in written proposal and reports.

Skills Acquired

On completion of the course, learners will be able to:

  • Articulate the concept and importance of design thinking
  • Explain the 5 stages of the design thinking process
  • Apply design thinking methodologies to define a problem statement and generate ideas for a given problem statement
  • Identify 2 different methods of applying design thinking in own organisation and apply the decision metrics to determine feasibility of design ideas and solutions
  • Promote design thinking in own organisation and articulate the importance and purpose of prototyping in the design thinking process

Learning Modules

Learning Unit 1: Me? A Design Thinker?

  • Understand the key concepts of design thinking

  • Explain the 5 stages of Design Thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test

  • Learn how to empathize and define the problem statement

Learning Unit 2: Identify pain points and prototyping

  • Practise SCAMPER, Creative Matrix, and Analogy Concepts to brainstorm ideas

  • Use sketches and physical props to showcase prototypes

  • Continue to test and reiterate prototypes

Learning Unit 3: Use Design Thinking Concepts in your daily work

  • Apply Design Thinking mindset to work problems

  • Look at problems and issues from the customer’s perspective

  • Change the way problems are solved in daily operations

  • Understand the key concepts of design thinking
  • Explain the 5 stages of Design Thinking: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test stages of Design Thinking
  • How to empathise and define the problem statement
  • Practise SCAMPER, Creative Matrix and Analogy Concepts to brainstorm ideas
  • Use sketches and physical props to showcase your prototypes
  • Continue to test and reiterate your prototypes
  • Apply Design Thinking mindset to your work problems
  • Look at the problems and issues from the customer’s perspective
  • Change the way problems are solved in your daily operations

Who is this course is for

Supervisors, Middle Managers and Team leaders from any industrial sectors or businesses

Academic prerequisites

  • Learners must be able to read, write, speak and listen to English at secondary school level
  • Learners to have minimum GCE ‘O’ level or ITE certificate education
  • Learner should have at least 1 year’s working experience in any industry

Course Fees

Company Sponsored

Fees Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Non Small Medium Enterprises Singaporean Employees aged 40 years and above
Full Fee $600.00 $600.00 $600.00
9% GST (on full course fee) $54.00 $54.00 $54.00
Funding Amount $420.00 (70% off course fee) $300.00 (50% off course fee) $420.00 (70% off course fee)
Nett Fee Payable (incl. GST) $234.00 $354.00 $234.00

  • SME: Company registered or incorporated in Singapore AND employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Non-SME (MCES): Employee is Singaporean aged 40 years and above

 

Course Fee Funding:
SME: 70% of course fee
Non-SME: 50% of course fee
Non-SME(MCES): 70% of course fee

$4.50 per training hour capped at $100,000 per enterprise per calendar year

Self Sponsored

Fees Singapore Citizens (40 years and above) Singapore Citizens (21 to 39 years old) & Permanent Residents (21 years old and above)
Full Fee $600.00 $600.00
9% GST (on full course fee) $54.00 $54.00
Funding Amount $420.00 (70% off course fee) $300.00 (50% off course fee)
Nett Fee Payable (incl. GST) $234.00 $354.00

  • MCES: Singaporean aged 40 years and above
  • Normal: Singaporean / PR aged 21 years and above

 

Course Fee Funding:
MCES: 70% of course fee
Normal: 50% of course fee

Design Thinking Starts With Me

Course Highlight

Course Duration

16 HRS

Training Time

9am-6pm

Mode of Training

Classroom

Course Reference Number

TGS-2022014001

Corporate Subsidy
Individual Subsidy

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