Centre for Teaching and Learning hosts a webinar on Design Thinking by Dr. Ganesh Prabhu

The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) hosted a webinar on Design Thinking in Higher Education, on 18th November 2022, as part of its Samiksha series of webinars. 

The speaker, Dr. Ganesh N Prabhu, Professor and Chairperson of Strategy area at IIMB, has been successfully running Design Thinking programs exclusively designed for middle to senior level managers and business leaders who wish to hone their business and innovation skills through design thinking. 

In his talk, Dr. Ganesh Prabhu elaborated on how design thinking is applicable to school education and higher education, and how the application is different in nature when applied to the school and higher education institutions. He explained, in detail, the nature of design thinking and recommended the designing of higher education programs via the design thinking framework. He also spoke on the requirement of design thinking in work life, providing relevant examples in his explanation. He presented a design thinking framework that highlighted the ‘whats’, the ‘whys’, and the ‘hows’. He introduced the audience to a ‘4Box Problem-Solving Model’ discussing a clear problem, an unclear problem, a known solution, and an unknown solution from the lens of design thinking.