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EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE
Design Thinking & Agile Methods
Open to admissions now
Next intake: 14 March 2022
Application deadline: 28 February 2022
Duration: 8 weeks
Format: 100% online / 100% in English / Top-level peer-learning & Individual coaching
Fees: €4,500 excl. tax
Recognition: Official Certificate – 8 ECTS credits
Get recognition in innovative leadership to tackle digital transformation and generate innovative solutions to your customers problems. Master Design Thinking techniques and Agile Methods that enable you to constantly innovate and create disruptive strategies.
To have impact and tackle digital transformation in today’s interconnected world you need to master the methods and tools that help you constantly innovate in your industry.
ESSEC professors have designed this executive certificate to help you explore and deeply understand design thinking process and agile methods and to apply them to your business.
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.
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