INTRODUCTION

How to apply System Dynamics, Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Techniques

Successful businesses are making billions by recognizing the value of integrating “Design Thinking” and “System Dynamics” into their process. 

Design thinking is applied to strategy and innovation and is concerned with solving problems through synthesis.  It allows work on many possible solutions at once, breaking down complex issues into tangible ones that can be analyzed and solved. This method enables consideration of the problem from a variety of perspectives and speculates on both the past and future of the situation.

System Dynamics is useful in policy or strategy formulation, in rapidly changing or complex situations.  It is used to solve problems by seeing the bigger picture as an additional tool to traditional analysis that is concerned with breaking a problem down to its constituent parts. 

Both approaches can be used in addition to the scientific method of problem-solving which requires a highly-defined problem focused on delivering a single solution.

Participants will learn when and how to use System Dynamics, Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Methods as responses to the constant change in technology, population, and economic activity that are transforming the world, and increasing the complexity of today's business organizations.

This T4D training course covers the essential skills needed to explore a complex scenario and problem as a manager and strategic advisor. The training concentrates on the skills required to deploy systems dynamics and design thinking effectively and maximize their benefits as problem-solving approaches that deliver real business benefits in areas such as:

• Corporate growth, stagnation, and decline
• The adoption of new technologies
• Managing business cycles
• Supply chain design
• Product and project development

The Designing Solutions to Complex Business Problems techniques are normally applied to:

• Identify real issues in complex interconnected situations
• Gain increased productivity through business improvements in complex situations
• Examine long-term trends and alternative business solutions for harnessing radical innovations
• Focus on the key elements of complex scenarios
• Evaluate the best course of action through strategic problem solving
• Designing and implementing organizational change, as well as influence complex alliances, partnerships and other interfirm relationships.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• General managers and senior functional managers who coordinate diverse groups and groups of diverse individuals.
• Executives who manage training and education.
• Operation managers and human resources managers
• Directors of organizational development and corporate strategy
• Professionals in technology-intensive sectors
• Project Management professionals
• Engineers needing to grapple with a complex business context

Duration

5 days