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12-week programme

Innovation Accelerator

Guiding teams through the nuts and bolts of bringing a new product, service, or intervention to life using lean innovation.

Talk to us about it

The Innovation Accelerator is a 12-week programme for teams pursuing innovations around a critical business or social challenge in your organisation.

Teams are guided through a structured approach, tools, and coaching across the five phases of moving a specific product or service innovation towards pilot or commercialisation. Our clients sometimes refer to it as an innovation incubator or an innovation garage.

As teams work on a real project, they gain in-depth practice and build skills in the design thinking approach through a series of mini-workshops, weekly coaching, and our Design Thinking Toolkit. They run co-design workshops with stakeholders, work on building organisational buy-in, and have touch points with senior management to validate direction.

Upon graduation, teams have the practical experience to coach others in the organisation through design thinking projects — making a more agile and innovative work culture part of business as usual.

Why it works

Structure, tools, and coaching

Move innovation forward

The structure, guidance, and skills to move an innovation project forward — and tackle the roadblocks your team will encounter on the journey.

Design Thinking Toolkit

Method and process cards that guide teams through a broad array of design thinking tools — from planning customer-insight excursions to quick ways to prototype a service.

Adaptive approach

Creating space for innovation looks different in every company. We run concentrated sprints with coaching calls in between, so participants manage their own time.

The programme

What teams walk away with

Programme goals

  • Develop the depth of skill of design thinkers across the organisation by working on a real project with expert coaching.
  • Act as a platform to launch innovation projects that are significant to the organisation.
  • Build a cadre of internal design thinking coaches with the practical experience to guide other teams.

Participants will be able to

  • Gain hands-on experience with each stage of the design thinking process.
  • Develop a deep understanding of potential users and their underlying needs.
  • Prepare presentations to involve senior management at key decision points.
  • Build an idea, create a rough prototype, and validate the business opportunity with real buyers.
  • Create a brief business case to move their project to pilot or commercialisation.

Available internationally

Offered in multiple languages and locations, including Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, and more.

Format 5–18 people

We recommend 5–6 participants per team, with up to 3 project teams running simultaneously. Participants get digital copies of all tools and frameworks to use in your organisation.

The method

Five phases of design thinking

Discover

Participants learn interviewing and other anthropological approaches to deeply understand users.

Synthesise

Participants reframe the challenge by uncovering new angles or opportunities for change.

Ideate

Participants develop and categorise ideas before fleshing out a direction for their solution.

Prototype

Participants identify key risks, develop prototypes to test those risks, and iterate.

Execute

Participants learn how to bring design thinking into their everyday work.

Ready to accelerate your team's innovation?

Tell us about the challenge you're tackling and we'll shape an accelerator around it.

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