Successful companies create compelling, disruptive products and services by cultivating a culture of design thinking—and by putting people at the center of their process. These firms innovate continuously by connecting with customer needs and emotions and demonstrating effective design leadership. Learn how enable this design culture at your organization to achieve buy-in for your vision and create solutions that consumers love.
Leadership by Design: Innovation Process and Culture
Certificate Track:
Strategy and Innovation
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tuition:
$4,100 (excluding accommodations)
Program Days (for ACE Credit) 2
This new program helps individuals and teams understand and practice human-centered design. You will learn both strategic and hands-on techniques for structured exploration through prototyping. You will also learn how to enable an action-based organizational culture in which empathy is generated, trial and error is encouraged, and failure is celebrated as a source of learning—all resulting in successful innovation.
Drawing on the resources of MIT’s Integrated Design & Management curriculum and its new Integrated Design Lab (ID Lab), this program combines the inspired, intuitive methods taught in the world’s best design schools with the systematic, analytical methods for which MIT is world renowned. This program is led by Matthew S. Kressy, creator and Director of Integrated Design & Management (IDM).
Course content includes:
The tools presented in the program can be applied to any range of human-centered innovation problems and opportunities including products, services and social/societal challenges.
By applying a human-design centered approach to leadership, you’ll be able to conceive of radically innovative solutions to multifaceted problems, create a vision that gets buy-in from senior management and colleagues, avoid hazards, and create solutions that people love both emotionally and intellectually.
Participants in this course will:
Teams from the same organization that attend this course will:
This program provides a shared process for problem solving and consensus building that can be applied to many roles, organizations, and industries. Ideal participants include:
Matthew S. Kressy, director and founder of the MIT Integrated Design & Management (IDM) master’s degree track, is an expert in product design and development. As an entrepreneur and founder of Designturn, he has designed, invented, engineered, and manufactured products for startups, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between.
Kressy believes in interdisciplinary, design-driven product development derived from deep user research, creative concept generation, and rapid prototype iteration. He is passionate about teaching this approach to the design process. In fact, since 1999, Kressy has co-taught collaborative courses in product design and development at top design and business schools including the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Harvard Business School.
As IDM director, Kressy leads curriculum development and teaches the track’s primary and required courses. He holds a BFA in industrial design from RISD.
| DAY 1 SAMPLE | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Design Process and Culture - Exploration, Empathy and Expression; Creation; What is good design? What is a good culture?; Love |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Exploration & Empathy (Field Exercise) - Interviews & Photos; Observations & Video; Dialog & Need Statements |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
Expression (Studio Exercise) - Photo Essay; Video; Image Boards; Personas; Storytelling |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Group Presentations |
| DAY 2 SAMPLE | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Creation - Strategy; Vision and Leadership; Balance (vision vs. feasibility vs. viability); Testing and Selection; Case: Saltshooter |
| 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Making Workshop - Sketching Demo + Exercise; Sketch Modeling Demo + Exercise; Rendering Demo; Hot glue Demo + Exercise |
| 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
Functional Prototyping (Studio Exercise) - Introduce Design Challenge: Teams form strategies and review; Materials provided; Build -> test -> iterate (Includes working lunch) |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Process Discussion - Process and leadership; General Reflections; Take-aways; Concluding remarks |
There is a shift happening in innovative product design--and it's putting people at the center of it.
VIEWStudents prepare for real-world product development through hands-on collaboration.
VIEWThe Integrated Design and Management Program blends creativity, analysis, and empathy.
VIEWCacophony has taken over Matt Kressy’s MIT class. But the noise is planned, and soon, he hopes, it will become music.
VIEWMatthew S. Kressy named to lead, develop, and teach new track.
VIEWIt’s a pretty safe bet that if you’re a mechanical engineer, you know the bare minimum about industrial design and even less about business. This makes for some pretty distinct silos that should in fact be actively collaborating over the course of product development.
VIEWThe benefit of bringing together students from different backgrounds—engineering, business, and industrial design—represents the students’ first real-world lesson.
VIEWA new master's degree route at MIT will harness the power of design, management and engineering.
VIEWAldo B: Great professor. A space to reflect in the relevance of design in today management.
Vandan D: Great program that provided insights on how to apply the IDM principles in process or product based initiatives. Matt is great at engagement and really gets your creative brains going.
Chester D: The MIT SLOAN Executive Education program exceeded my expectations. Matthew Kressy’s real world experiences and instructional technique of demonstrating methods on innovation and culture, followed by actually allowing students to lead the design and construction of projects results in a eclectic learning experience. The program demonstrates the importance of communication with the customer and extending the information across organizational domains that otherwise would remain stove piped within a business.
Sam J: Good delivery and great insights.
Dinesh A: Like stated in another review - I felt this was more of 'Innovation Culture' with Design rather than 'Leadership' by Design. Having said that - I was very pleased with the 'MIT' experience; Unbelievable couple of days, superbly organized that deserves a 5-star rating. The topic is such that it cannot have very 'clear-cut' content; Matt was excellent with his explanations and examples; I did feel however that the content of the course needs a bit of a boost. Overall, pretty happy with my first MIT experience; coming back soon.
Abdul R: Matt was a super teacher. I enjoyed the practical examples and also his sharing of his valuable experiences. The content was relevant to today.
Italo F: I liked it in general, but I had another expectation about this course. You should review the description. It was very much focused in product and almost nothing in service.
Jun E: The innovation process is clearly described and the friction points between designers, engineers and management are discussed. Hands-on experience on some aspects of the process was interesting.
Aris T: A great fit between theory and practice. And a better design thinking course than most design thinking courses.
Eric R: This is a tough topic to convey in such a short amount of time, but I will say that Matt did an admirable job. I found the course very helpful and I think it would be good for anyone who is responsible for bringing products to market. So on that basis, I give it a very postivei recommendation. I was a bit surprised given the title of the course that we didn't spend more time on the leadership aspect. I did understand that the leadership comes organically out of applying these techniques. But nevertheless, I would have appreciated more guidance on how to actually go about that, as I know there are a lot of hurdles in changing organizational culture. It could be that the course could have fulfilled this goal with an extra day.
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There is a shift happening in innovative product design--and it's putting people at the center of it. "It's about talking to your users and stakeholders and then going back and expressing those needs and emotions to the organization in order to innovate and problem solve," says Matt Kressy.
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