PDMA St. Louis: How to leverage Design Thinking to create better products — Cancelled

When:  Sep 21, 2021 from 18:30 to 20:00 (CT)
Associated with  St. Louis, MO
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Description

With today’s rapidly changing business landscape, it is a major challenge for enterprises to deliver the right business value through products, in a faster, cheaper, scalable, and sustainable way. Design Thinking capability is a key enabler in ensuring customer centricity, and organizations can leverage this effectively. This workshop will delve into some of the failure patterns and solve them by embedding Design Thinking as a capability across teams, processes and operating models.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand what is Design Thinking and its application in a product management area
  • Understand how Design Thinking can help solve some of the typical challenges / failure patterns in the enterprise

About the Speaker

Raj Thota 

Raj Thota is a Certified Design Thinking professional from Darden School of Design. He has trained and mentored many executives, professionals and clients on design thinking frameworks and best practices. He is also trained by Jake Knapp on Design Sprints [Google Ventures] which combines Design Thinking, Agile, Lean Startups, innovation, and behavioral science.

Raj is passionate about design and problem-solving processes especially in enabling transformations of IT Organizations and start-ups. He has consulted to CXOs on designing their Target Operating Models and Roadmaps for transformation. He has worked across the globe and brings in 23+ years of industry experience, and is also a SAFe, ITIL, Six Sigma, CMMI, TMMI and ISO Certified Consultant. Raj is Founder & Chief Mentor at ADVX, a unique C-School that is helping aspirants to become Agile & Design Thinking Consulting professionals. He currently works as an Advisor to Stanford SEED [entrepreneur network]. He is an invited speaker at various companies and B-schools like ISB, IIMs, etc.

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