Design Thinking & Agile Methods

Teaching methods

• 100% online lectures
• Teamwork (top-level peer learning)
• Individual academic coach

Follow-up & evaluation

• Self-assessment
• Evaluation & feedback
• Video projects
• Activity files & materials

English: minimum TOEIC SCORE 785 or B2 on the Common European Framework of reference

Candidates must have some notions of digital technologies.

Julien Malaurent

Ph.D in Information Systems, ESSEC Business School. Dr. Julien Malaurent is Professor of Information Systems at ESSEC since 2013. He obtained his PhD at ESSEC in 2011 by analysing the circumvention of information systems developed by users of major international firms.

Thomas Kude

Ph.D in Information Systems. Associate Professor, Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Statistics (IDS) Department.

Sen Chai

Sen us an associate professor in the Management Department of ESSEC Business School. Sen’s research examines the entire developmental course of creative innovations from idea conception to commercialisation.

Understand and drive a design thinking approach

• Define what is the design thinking method and its 5-stage process
• Drive the empathize stage of design thinking method
• Drive the define stage of design thinking method
• Drive the ideate stage of design thinking method
• Drive the prototype stage of design thinking method.

Understand and drive an agile approach

• Explain and integrate the mechanisms that underlie the agile approach
• Describe and apply agile methods and practices
• Lead the agile transformation of an organisation
• Scrum continued, Kanban/lean startup.