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The menu offerings from our test kitchen can be tailored to your individual organization’s needs. Get personalized expert guidance through our innovation masterclasses, innovation sprints, or innovation tools. You can also curate your own innovation recipe by combining any of the following offerings, or design your own corporate package.
Innovation Masterclasses
Learn from the experts and become one! Spend a day with our certified Innovation experts, learning about the various innovation methodologies you need to master to tackle challenges within your organization!
What is Design Thinking?
Design Thinking is a mindset and a process that helps you solve real industry problems by developing customer-focused solutions in a short amount of time. Design Thinking methodologies are already being used in a variety of industries to innovate quickly and channel creativity. Used correctly, Design Thinking saves a significant amount of time and money when launching new products or services.
What to Expect
In this Masterclass you will learn the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking and provide your team with the opportunity to experience the value of its methodologies through engaging, hands-on activities.
- A full walkthrough of the Design Thinking methodology, as perfected by researchers at Stanford
- Elevate your team’s approach to business problems with a human-centric approach that drives better results
- Identify how you can use Design Thinking in a variety of industries to solve essential challenges
- Learn to ask the right questions to uncover valuable customer insights
- Create concrete problem statements that highlight the real customer needs to be addressed
- Use takeaways from this Masterclass to facilitate your own internal Design Thinking Sprints
What is Lean Startup?
Lean Startup is a methodology that supports the development of products, services and businesses, and teaches how to achieve this development within a short period. The process includes fundamentals of Design Thinking and defines a new way to start and launch a business and/or product.s.
What to Expect
In this training, your team will learn how to use a variety of entrepreneurial tools and processes to turn business ideas into products and solutions.
- Understand Lean Startup and learn how to use the methodology in your business
- Become equipped to quickly and cheaply launch products customers really want
- Identify the steps needed to apply the methodology
- Learn how to map out the process for a business or a product
- Re-define how to prepare, experiment and present the start of a new idea
- Learn how to measure success while using the method
What are Design Tools?
All designers have special toolkits full of the best applications to design graphics, animations, web, and mobile applications. These tools are used to create stunning visuals that convey a business or product idea to key decision-makers, helping them better envision the concept that is being pitched to them. But with so many options available today, which one is the best to help you sell your idea?
What to Expect
Take your Design Thinking knowledge to the next level with this Design Tools Masterclass! Through hands-on activities, you will develop your own low-fidelity mockup of a real business solution for your organization.
- Identify the best design tool needed for your project
- Learn how to compare between the many tools at hand
- Try the most efficient and popular tools available
- Experience the steps involved in bringing your idea to life, from sketches to low-fidelity prototypes
- Create a prototype of a real business idea from your organization, using your preferred design tool
- Receive feedback on the spot from our UX/UI Design expert
Innovation Masterclass
Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a mindset and a process that helps you solve real industry problems by developing customer-focused solutions in a short amount of time. Design Thinking methodologies are already being used in a variety of industries to innovate quickly and channel creativity. Used correctly, Design Thinking saves a significant amount of time and money when launching new products or services.
What You Will Take Away
Learn to apply the Design Thinking methodology to real problems faced by your organization or your customers. In this Masterclass you will learn the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking and provide your team with the opportunity to experience the value of its human centered methodologies through engaging, hands on activities.
What to Expect
In this Masterclass you will learn the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking and provide your team with the opportunity to experience the value of its methodologies through engaging, hands-on activities.
- A full walkthrough of the Design Thinking methodology, as perfected by researchers at Stanford
- Elevate your team’s approach to business problems with a human-centric approach that drives better results
- Identify how you can use Design Thinking in a variety of industries to solve essential challenges
- Learn to ask the right questions to uncover valuable customer insights
- Create concrete problem statements that highlight the real customer needs to be addressed
- Use takeaways from this Masterclass to facilitate your own internal Design Thinking Sprints
Learn from the experts and become one! Spend a day with our certified Innovation experts, learning about the various innovation methodologies you need to master to tackle challenges within your organization!
What is Design Thinking?
Design Thinking is a mindset and a process that helps you solve real industry problems by developing customer-focused solutions in a short amount of time. Design Thinking methodologies are already being used in a variety of industries to innovate quickly and channel creativity. Used correctly, Design Thinking saves a significant amount of time and money when launching new products or services.
What to Expect
In this Masterclass you will learn the fundamental concepts of Design Thinking and provide your team with the opportunity to experience the value of its methodologies through engaging, hands-on activities.
- A full walkthrough of the Design Thinking methodology, as perfected by researchers at Stanford
- Elevate your team’s approach to business problems with a human-centric approach that drives better results
- Identify how you can use Design Thinking in a variety of industries to solve essential challenges
- Learn to ask the right questions to uncover valuable customer insights
- Create concrete problem statements that highlight the real customer needs to be addressed
- Use takeaways from this Masterclass to facilitate your own internal Design Thinking Sprints
What is Lean Startup?
Lean Startup is a methodology that supports the development of products, services and businesses, and teaches how to achieve this development within a short period. The process includes fundamentals of Design Thinking and defines a new way to start and launch a business and/or product.s.
What to Expect
In this training, your team will learn how to use a variety of entrepreneurial tools and processes to turn business ideas into products and solutions.
- Understand Lean Startup and learn how to use the methodology in your business
- Become equipped to quickly and cheaply launch products customers really want
- Identify the steps needed to apply the methodology
- Learn how to map out the process for a business or a product
- Re-define how to prepare, experiment and present the start of a new idea
- Learn how to measure success while using the method
What are Design Tools?
All designers have special toolkits full of the best applications to design graphics, animations, web, and mobile applications. These tools are used to create stunning visuals that convey a business or product idea to key decision-makers, helping them better envision the concept that is being pitched to them. But with so many options available today, which one is the best to help you sell your idea?
What to Expect
Take your Design Thinking knowledge to the next level with this Design Tools Masterclass! Through hands-on activities, you will develop your own low-fidelity mockup of a real business solution for your organization.
- Identify the best design tool needed for your project
- Learn how to compare between the many tools at hand
- Try the most efficient and popular tools available
- Experience the steps involved in bringing your idea to life, from sketches to low-fidelity prototypes
- Create a prototype of a real business idea from your organization, using your preferred design tool
- Receive feedback on the spot from our UX/UI Design expert
Innovation Sprints
Our bespoke Innovation Sprints are designed to guide you through the complex process of problem-solving and creating new ideas using a human-centered innovation approach.
- Corporate Innovation Strategy
- Guided Design Thinking
- Self-Paced Design Thinking
- Corporate Ideathon
- Digital CX Ideation
What is Corporate Innovation Strategy?
In just 5 days, your innovation team will build an innovation plan that is ready to be implemented. The team will decide on specific goals and the ways for the organization to reach these goals. The key decision-makers select one of the blueprints created, and this blueprint finally executed at the end of the Sprint.
What to Expect
In this training, your team will learn how to use a variety of entrepreneurial tools and processes to turn business ideas into products and solutions.
- A unique collaboration between different departments within your organization!
- Faster-than-normal decision making for executives and key stakeholders
- An innovation blueprint that will be tested and validated during the Sprint
- Clearly defined KPIs to help you measure the success of your action plan
- Constant support and guidance from our certified Innovation experts
- A solution worth investing your innovation budget in
What is a Design Thinking Sprint?
A Design Thinking Sprint solves a business challenge and follows a detailed step-by-step process that allows participants to ideate, design, develop, and test solutions using a human-centered approach. This process produces customer-focused solutions by encouraging participants to empathize with customers via in-depth interviews. Design Thinking Sprints drive fast decision-making and prototyping of solutions that are tested and validated before the week ends.
What to Expect
Our certified Innovation Experts will support you every step of the way, providing valuable information on the Design Thinking methodology and the right tools to help drive long-term results.
- Guidance from our certified Innovation Coach, Innovation Strategy Expert, and our Lead UX/UI Designer
- Real validation of your idea before the end of the project
- Rapid prototyping of your solution for you to present to key stakeholders
- Pre-configured Innovation Collaboration Tools for the project and our Tech Support on standby
- 3 months’ access to Joolia (our Virtual Innovation Assistant) and Tastemakers (our crowdsourcing platform)
- A specially designed infographic after the project to summarize the week and your results
What is a Self-paced Design Thinking Sprint?
Same as our regular Design Thinking Sprint Design self-paced to allow your team to comfortably innovate in sessions spread over (and up to) 4 weeks. A Design Thinking Sprint solves a business challenge in a short period of time. It follows a detailed step-by-step process that allows participants to ideate, design, develop, and test solutions using a human-centered approach. This process produces customer-focused solutions by encouraging participants to empathize with customers via in-depth interviews. Design Thinking Sprints drive fast decision-making and prototyping of solutions that are tested and validated before the week ends.
What to Expect
Our certified Innovation Experts will support you every step of the way, providing valuable information on the Design Thinking methodology and the right tools to help drive long-term results.
- Guidance from our certified Innovation Coach, Innovation Strategy Expert, and our Lead UX/UI Designer
- Real validation of your idea before the end of the project
- Rapid prototyping of your solution for you to present to key stakeholders
- Pre-configured Innovation Collaboration Tools for the project and our Tech Support on standby
- 3 months’ access to Joolia (our Virtual Innovation Assistant) and Tastemakers (our crowdsourcing platform)
- A specially designed infographic after the project to summarize the week and your results
What is a Design Corporate Ideathon?
A Corporate Ideathon is a competitive event with a fixed time limit to solve a specific real-world business problem. The business challenge is typically announced at the beginning of the Hackathon. Internal and/or external participants form teams that race to build winning cases and present their final solutions to a panel of key decision makers at the end of the event.
What to Expect
Our team of Innovation experts will provide the right guidance on methodologies and tools to achieve best results.
- Support from our certified Innovation Coach and our Lead UX/UI Designer
- Pre-configured Innovation Collaboration Tools for the project and our Tech Support on standby
- 3 months’ access to Joolia (our Virtual Innovation Assistant) and Tastemakers (our crowdsourcing platform)
- A team-building opportunity that connects participants from different departments, promoting a team-oriented culture within your organization
- A number of impressive solutions to evaluate at the end of the project
- Choose to involve participants from different locations, increasing brand exposure
What is a Digital CX Ideation?
A Digital CX Sprint focuses on your digital experience from the customers’ perspective and will help you to understand where you do not meet their expectations. Together with your team we will create empathy maps, personas and map out the current digital customer journey to formulate your specific challenges and ideate solutions to create a positive experience. Using customer insights, you will evaluate and prioritize the solution ideas to make informed decisions on which ideas you want to build.
What to Expect
In this sprint, your team will explore various ways to improve your current digital experience by harnessing the power of Design Thinking.
- Support from our certified Innovation Coaches, UX/UI Designers and CX Experts from msg global
- Gain an in-depth understanding of your current customer journey and how to turn bad experiences into good ones
- A unique collaboration between different departments within your organization
- Real validation of your idea with aligned criteria set
- Keep high motivation of your employees to deliver a constant stream of new business ideas by managing idea lifecycle
- A team-building opportunity that connects participants from different departments, promoting a team-oriented culture within your organization
- Several impressive solutions to evaluate at the end of the project
Innovation Tools
Whether you need to design your innovation program, ideate with your team, or connect with some of the brightest minds from around the world, we have the right tools to cover all your innovation needs!
Tastemakers Powered by Cookhouse Labs
What is Tastemakers Crowdsourcing Platform?
Tastemakers is a community-led innovation ideation platform. In just 5 days, your innovation team will build an innovation plan that is ready to be implemented. The team will decide on specific goals and the ways for the organization to reach these goals. The key decision-makers select one of the blueprints created, and this blueprint finally executed at the end of the Sprint.
What is Tastemakers?
Anyone can join our Tastemakers network of diverse and innovative minds. We provide a steady supply of challenges from a wide variety of categories, and the next challenge our community tackles could be yours!
Features
Tastemakers, powered by Cookhouse Labs, is a community-led innovation ideation platform. Innovate faster and better to solve the toughest problems.
- Connect with a community of global innovators in the first crowdsourcing platform in the insurance world.
- Frequent challenges for our community to tackle, allowing your teams to sharpen their innovation skills while having fun!
- Shape the future of the industry by ideating high-impact solutions with other community members.
