Design Thinking and Global Startup (Coursera)

Design Thinking and Global Startup (Coursera)

This course offers a systematic engineering design methodology: Stanford Design Thinking for preparing global startup. The course empathizes the whole Stanford design thinking process, "Empathy-Define-Ideation-Prototype-Test," for building a startup with a business model that has a “customer truly need” component.

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This course focuses on lean “Prototype and Test” stages in Stanford Design Thinking. For this, the course introduces a novel manufacturing methodology by using 4th Industrial Revolution technology such as FaaS (Factory as a service) with AI, Bigdata, and 3D Printing. As a final achievement of this course, students will make their critical tools such as one-liner, lean-canvas, and global IR (investor relations) pitch deck for the first step of a global innovative startup founder.

Syllabus

WEEK 1:Stanford Design Thinking & Lean Startup I
WEEK 2: Stanford Design Thinking & Lean Startup IWEEK 3: Stanford Design Thinking & Lean Startup II
WEEK 4: Design Thinking with 3D Printing
WEEK 5: Introduction to Singapore and Silicon-V Startup Ecosystem and Strategy
WEEK 6: Global IR Pitch Deck & Case Study

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