Design Thinking with Data to Drive Business Decision-Making

In this 1-day design thinking with data course, you will explore three key pillars - design thinking, agile methodology, and lean methodology. You will learn how to apply the various frameworks and methodologies to draw insights from your data, identify constraints and measure your business performance. By the end of the course, you will be able to effectively apply design thinking to drive more insightful data faster and more efficiently than ever.

Used in various world’s leading companies like Google and Apple, design thinking is essentially a problem-solving technique that can be used on a variety of projects or services with the goal of providing your target audience with better solutions. When you consider what design thinking stands for, you could characterise it as a “thinking outside the box” process where you try to understand the user, question presumptions, and reframe challenges in an effort to find alternate approaches and answers that might not be immediately obvious given your initial level of understanding.

The widespread adoption of design thinking will drive the creation of alternative products and services for both businesses and consumers. Design thinking is not exclusively for designers but for creative employees, freelancers and leaders as well!

Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to:

• Define and understand the explosion of big data and data sources as well as their roles in businesses
• Understand the value of big data in pattern recognition and AI algorithms
• Understand the design thinking framework
• Understand the lean framework
• Understand agile methodology
• Understand data science teams
• Infusing agile, lean and design thinking in business for data-driven solutions

This course is designed for beginners with:

• No background or experience in coding, programming, and/or computer science
• No experience and knowledge of data analytics
• An interest to learn how to leverage data for problem-solving or product development using design and lean thinking

"Attending Dwight’s course on Design Thinking with Data has provided me with a useful foundation of different approaches to problem-solving. I also appreciated him trying to customise the course based on the participants’ profiles and background." 

- Melissa Teh, Senior Executive at Home Team Academy

"The trainer has opened up my mind to the adoption of data in real-life examples, he is a domain lead in this area."

Dwight Fonseka is the Head Data Analyst at Plano, the world’s first science-based parental control application and an Adjunct Lecturer at the London School of Business and Finance. His interest in the area of data developed sometime in 2014 when he ventured into data analytics and database management. 7 years later, he has achieved an impressive skill set in data. This includes advanced statistics, big data analytics, cloud computing, neural networks, R programming, python programming, business analytics, data storytelling, and more. Dwight has a Masters in Education (Curriculum & Teaching), a Microsoft Certificate of Achievement (SQL), and an Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP).