Northumbria Design Sprint

• Provider: Northumbria University
• Attendance: In-person
• Accredited: Yes
• Length: Short
• Cost: Paid
• Starts: TBC
• Topic: Creation, Innovation and Research

PRE-SPRINT MEETING DEFINING THE PARAMETERS WITH THE ORGANISATION'S LEADERSHIP In order to prepare for the course and ensure that the participants and the organisation maximise the value on offer, this pre-sprint meeting seeks to establish the nature of the challenge being tackled and the roles from within the organisation who are key to inform the activities and participant.

DAY ONE: SET-UP DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES The objective of day one is to define the opportunity spaces to be tackled during the sprint. To achieve this insights, priorities, trends, issues and perceptions are gathered, mapped and explored. The team will define the challenge, the creative brief and its associated value statement, core objectives and scope.

DAY TWO: EVOLUTION OF PROBLEM & SOLUTION SPACE INITIAL CONCEPT GENERATION The objective of day two is to generate lots of ideas. Using a range of creative techniques ideas will emerge and be developed into sets of concepts responding to the project’s creative brief.

DAY THREE: STRATEGY DEVELOPING STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLANS The objective of day three is evaluate the value within the concepts and ideas that have been developed, to narrow down and focus thinking, making hard choices based upon organisational realities and being strategic.

DAY FOUR: PREPARE & PITCH REFINE, SHARE AND VISUALISE The objective of day four is to further refine concepts and the strategic rationale in order to produce visualisations and communications of the core concepts that can be shared with colleagues from across the organisation or pitched to customers or partners.

DAY FIVE: UNPACK & EVALUATE DOCUMENT, REVIEW AND PLAN There are three objectives to fulfil on the final day: objective one is to gather and review the week’s materials, packaging all that has been learnt and created; objective two is collate and reflect on feedback from the pitch; and objective three is to identify and reflecting upon learning from the week and how the innovation culture of the organisation can be enhanced.

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