Class Details
Leading Responsible Innovation Course: Strategic Design and System Thinking
Course summary
Many of us have a good understanding of innovation as a concept, but less of us understand how to fully realise its value. When implemented properly, and coupled with robust system thinking skills, sustainable and responsible innovation can become a reality. This course empowers leaders to better understand the stakeholder and system landscape of their organisation and arms them with the methods and tools to create sustainable and responsible innovation.
Strategic design is a way of understanding your operating environment and the system in which it lives, to redefine problems and create innovative solutions which can be prototyped and tested. It empowers leaders and organisations to validate at every stage of the process, and create lasting value for your business, your customers, and society at large.
Truly responsible innovation looks beyond the immediate opportunity and takes a broader and longer-term view of the system in which the innovation may live. This is the power of system thinking. System thinking is a way of making sense of the complexity of the world by looking at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than by splitting it down into its parts.
This course will cover a range of current and emerging methodologies to unlock innovation capability within your organisation with a focus on strategic design, system thinking, and second order thinking, as well as the practical application of these skills. This learning is supported by practical exercises that will be contextual for you as leaders.
Aims
This course will teach you the principles of strategic design and system thinking, how they can be leveraged to innovate responsibly and sustainably, solve problems creatively, and execute them viably.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- understand strategic design principles for leading innovation
- understand organisational and market complexity through system thinking
- utilise responsible innovation frameworks and methods
- lead responsible innovations to address unintended consequences for sustainable impact
- utilise system thinking tools when leading innovation
- map the path to change using theory of change
- develop practical applications with innovation principles and second order thinking.
Content
Leading responsible innovation
- Understanding responsible innovation
- Adopting a system thinking approach to leading innovation
- Exploring risks and impacts
- Developing mitigation strategies
- The power of design thinking in innovation practice
Strategic design principles
- Human-centered inspiration
- System thinking principles and methods
- Second order thinking
- Innovation’s role in creating stakeholder (as well as shareholder) value
- Theory of change
Practical applications
- The role of wayfinding leadership in innovation
- Strategic design in the workplace
- Responsible innovation in the workplace
- Emerging frameworks
Who this course is for
This course is intended for senior leadership in business, government, or creative industries who are seeking to innovate with design solutions to better meet the needs of customers and society, whilst creating sustainable value.
Prerequisites
None
Delivery style
- Face-to-face, presenter-taught workshop
- Online workshop via the platform Zoom
Materials
All course materials are provided electronically (via Dropbox).
Sessions
Location
Online via Zoom
Other information
Our online via Zoom courses are interactive and delivered in real-time. You will have the chance to ask questions and join in activities, just as you would in any in-person class.
Our facilitators are well versed in Zoom delivery and will skillfully guide you in your online learning journey.
Instructions regarding how to connect to online classes will be sent to participants about 4 days before the class commences.
Meet the facilitators
Trena Blair
Trena empowers leaders to lead with purpose.
With an international executive career spanning Australia and the USA, Trena has led billion-dollar P&Ls, managed global teams of over 400, and driven strategic growth across multiple industries. She brings more than 20 years of senior leadership experience to her work with business leaders navigating complexity and transformation.
A highly respected thought leader in strategy, leadership, governance and risk management, and women’s advancement, Trena is regularly engaged to design and deliver programs for organisations such as the University of Sydney Business School, the American Australian Chamber of Commerce, UNSW Australian Graduate School of Management, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Mastercard, and Discover Global Network.
She is an experienced presenter of business leadership programs, including governance and risk Management, leadership, and strategic planning and management.
Trena is a qualified Company Director and maintains an active board portfolio, providing governance and strategic oversight in both commercial and not-for-profit sectors. Her thought leadership has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, and CEO Magazine, and she is a multi-award winning businesswoman, and best-selling author of Decoding Global Growth: How successful companies scale internationally.
Her academic credentials include a Bachelor of Arts (Education) and a Bachelor of Education (Deakin University), a Graduate Diploma in Management (UNSW AGSM), and the General Management and Leadership Program (Harvard Business School).
Her mission? To inspire courageous, strategic leaders to grow with clarity, act with impact, and lead with purpose.
