Contents
Design thinking and process management
- Basic principles of design thinking.
- Human factor and customer centricity.
- End-to-end approach and customer-oriented processes.
Double Diamond: The Design Thinking process model
- Get to know the Double Diamond process model.
- The three phases: From exploration to solution.
- Inspiration: Understanding & observing.
- Ideation: Define perspective & develop ideas.
- Validation: prototyping & testing.
Inspiration: Becoming a customer advocate
- Observe and better understand the customer.
- Build empathy with the customer.
Ideation: Creative process ideas
- Synthesize the customer problem and define your own point of view.
- Develop creative process ideas.
Validation: putting processes to the test
- Simply prototype process ideas.
- Test process ideas in a target and customer-oriented manner.
Learning environment
Your benefit
- You will get to know and apply design thinking as a systematic approach in the context of a case study from start to finish. You will go through the individual phases of the design thinking process, use the associated methods and develop your own process prototypes.
- You know why customer centricity is also relevant for corporate success in process management.
- You can empathize with your customers and understand their wishes, needs and challenges.
- You will learn methods for the creative development of process ideas.
- You develop process prototypes and test them in a customer-oriented manner.
Methods
Keynote speech, exchange and discussion, group workshop, accompanying case study.
Keynote speech, exchange and discussion, group workshop, accompanying case study.
Recommended for
process managers, process owners and process consultants, specialists and managers with process responsibility, process owners and business analysts who want to improve their processes in a customer-centric way or develop new processes with a customer focus.
Seminar evaluation for "Design thinking in process management"







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Start dates and details
Wednesday, 22.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 23.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, 20.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 21.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 09.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 10.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 09.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 10.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, 20.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 21.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.