Navigating Industry 4.0 requires more than just adapting to technology — it demands a transformation in how we manage, lead, and innovate. This course empowers participants to integrate design thinking into their professional roles as managers, leaders, and technopreneurs. By developing both hard and soft T-skills, they enhance individual competence, team capacity, and organisational capability, enabling strategic execution and sustained performance.
Learning Outcomes:
Apply design thinking principles in management, leadership, and technopreneurship
Integrate hard and soft skills (T-skills) to drive performance and innovation
Develop strategies aligned with PMI’s project-based leadership framework
Cultivate a high-performance culture across teams and functions
Enhance adaptability and business value in the context of Industry 4.0
Key Topics:
Design Thinking for Managers, Leaders, and Technopreneurs
PMI Talent Triangle: strategic, business, and technical project skills
Self-awareness, self-management, and self-development frameworks
Change management tools: Awareness, Alignment, Action, Adoption, Assurance, Anticipation
Creating synergy between individual, team, and organisational goals
The essence of a high-performance organizational culture is:
- Competent managers optimize resources to achieve the highest level of productivity in the industry.
- Effective leaders develop a pipeline of leaders to grow, glow and globalize the company for brand leadership and equity.
- Savvy technopreneurs invest in the right project, people and process to stay relevant and remain sustainable to beat the competition.
Design thinking is necessary to create the right mix of competent managers, effective agile leaders and savvy technopreneurs. The goal is to achieve best practice in management, leadership, and technopreneurship.
Managers, leaders and technopreneurs are people. The right process will make them better managers, leaders and technopreneurs. This 2-day course provides the road map, transition change management process and tools, viz.
Awareness: what is design thinking for management, leadership, technopreneurship?
Alignment: why is design thinking mission critical to every manager, leader and technopreneur?
Action: how to we cultivate design thinking for individuals, teams, and the organization?
Adoption: who are the authentic design managers, leaders and technopreneurs?
Assurance: when should we develop a pipeline of design thinkers for a multiplying effect?
Anticipation: where does design thinking reap the most benefits?