Empower your team with the skillset for tomorrow’s world
This quarterly skill enhancement program inspires and equips your team in building customer-centric products with positive impact on profit, people and planet.
We’ve inspired these companies before:
Step into the future
And learn how to design for it.
AI is for everyone
AI is conquering many aspects of business by storm, creating new opportunities for product design and marketing. But many businesses feel overwhelmed and are unsure where to start. We'll teach you Generative AI, like ChatGPT and Midjourney, to deliver better results at 10% of your precious time.
Design for 10x
Don’t wait for your disruptor, anticipate on it from the inside. This course is about mindset as well as skillset. Your company, innovating with the mindset of creative destruction. Going for 10x instead of 10% better.
Sustainable by default
Growth through people-centric design is not good enough anymore - now, the planet is at stake. A triple-P design method, integrating People, Planet and Profit is the way forward; we'll show you how.
Testing is crucial
Scientific research shows that 70%-90% of products and services fail in the market. The old way of designing products is dead. Agile product development, with fast learning cycles together with customers the new imperative.
…And more
...Tomorrow's world requires teams with a mindset of extreme customer centricity, and the skills to put this into action. We've explored many of these and translated them to a meaningful training offering for you.
The FutureForward
Foundation package
01. Team courses
The learning experience is designed so that every quarter there is one training, for one year. Choose a minimum of 4 dates that fit your schedule, and be sure of a year full of inspiration and team learnings!
each course has a duration of 1 day, with 4 hours theory and 4 hours workshop
Design for 10x
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Learn how to identify meaningful opportunities, discover underserved customer segments and apply new business models.
T O P I C S
The 10x mindset
Pockets of growth
Lean Startup Fundaments
Business Modeling
Design for Sustainability
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We'll inspire your team with successful sustainability pioneers and teach your team about sustainable design fundaments like the the UN's SDG's, the Butterfly Diagram, but also about sustainable pivots in business models.
T O P I C S
The butterfly model
Triple-P Bottom Line
9 Sustainable Pivots
Design for planet
Design with Generative AI
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Learn how to draw customer journeys, interview scrips, create new concepts and validate them through synthetic research. But also, learn about ethical, legal and privacy considerations for good use of Generative AI.
T O P I C S
Gen-AI: past and future
Synthetic research in ChatGPT
Brainstorming
Concept and AI branding
MVP and experimenting
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During this course you will learn how to innovate with the market, instead of for the market. Learn how to involve peers, experts and customers in design anda apply continuous validation by smart experiments to navigate towards success.
T O P I C S
Evidence-based innovation
Experiment Design Meaningful Metrics
MVP-ing
Optional Topics
Want to have more options, have a specific need or want to elaborate on the training? We have extra modules you can add:
T R A I N I N G S
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Create experiences, not just products. From customer journey mapping to defining and testing powerful interventions. Learn about experience design principles, NPS, intervention ideations and living lab validation. All in one course.
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To pivot or not? Being successful in innovation doesn't start with an idea, it is the consequence of meaningful pivots towards Product-Market fit. See real life stories and practice with 9 ways to pivot.
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The double diamond is the fundament for teams that want more customer-centric products. Learn about the basic 4 steps and practice with the most powerful tools.
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No matter how good your idea is, pitching is an art. Learn about the 7 fundamental essentials for a pitch presentation and how to translate that into a story that converts.
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Team workshop to get experience with real life testing in the market. We challenge you to innovate out of the office!
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Not all ideas are great innovations. But all great innovations tackle a problem head-on and work backwards. Dive into niches, problem context, switching costs and creating a beachhead strategy to onboard first paying customers and beyond.
02. Workshop material
Spread the word and start a movement. Our courses are aimed at action. Take home pragmatic tools to onboard peers in new thinking and doing. Be the champion that provokes positive change for your organization. For every training we have at least one handout!
03. Inspiring Locations
Inspiring locations to step into the future with both feet. You as a champion will get a peek into the future by handpicked locations in tech, sustainability and creative. Experience thought provoking environments and new surroundings.
* Locations are optional, in-house or online can ofcourse be discussed!
Photo: Jasmijn van der Klei
Groene Afslag – Laren
De Groene Afslag in Laren is a sustainable haven, creatively designed with reused furniture and materials in an old demolition site. Every corner reveals something unique and eco-friendly!
Photo: Stadstheater de Boemel
Theater de Boemel – Tilburg
De Boemel in Tilburg is a local theater that welcomes you in a cozy and creative way. Get immersed in an entirely different and artistic setting that makes everyone happy.
Photo: Michiel Ton
The Social Impact Factory – Utrecht
The Social Impact Factory have unique creative meeting rooms, like this waste based room that is completely covered with recycled textiles from a circular innovative startup.
Testimonials
Don’t just take our word for it.
Outstanding
We at Navara strive for elite performing software engineering teams as defined by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) program. Several of the found best practices are related to a lean approach to product management, and Joost's knowledge in this area is outstanding! In addition he is one of the highest rated trainers we have.
Noldus Reijnders, Technology Officer at Navara
High-value training
Thank you ktc! This was a very valuable training. With recognizable and catchy examples of how innovation does and does not work. The message that stayed with me: innovation die is blijven hangen: innovation requires determination. It takes courage to deploy innovation with a long-term perspective. But if you have that long-term breath, something really awesome can happen!
Jolien Bos, Innovation Manager
For whom?
Software
Teams
Product
Teams
Reframe technology into customer-centric propositions
Become design thinking savvy and create better products
Innovation
Teams
Service & CX
Teams
Create meaningful interventions for people and planet
Innovate with a customer- and planet proof mindset
FAQs
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We advice on having a group of 10 - 15 people. If you’re not sure about your group size, just ask us for advice!
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The locations we have experience with and are excited about are
Groene Afslag in Laren
Spoorzone in Tilburg
Microlab in Eindhoven
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We help product managers, product owners, general team managers, and corporate teams to become future resilient
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If you’re not familiar with innovation methods, design thinking or agile working (sprints, scrums, etc) we don’t necessarily advice you to take our training. Our trainigs are targeted towards teams who have the beginning knowledge but lack some experience. This is where we boost your team to get hands on and inspired to work on a better future
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That’s okay! Let’s have an intake call and see what you want for your team. You know them, we don’t. We only can advice on what we think is best in terms of flow!
Book an intake call with us.
Let’s innovate the future, together!
How it works
Fill in the form or send some general info with your question our way. We’ll get back to you and plan together a video intake call.
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We’ll have a 30 min. intake call talking about what topics and mindset changes you want to provoke. This is important so we can really make impact. We’ll shortly discuss a few locations and practicalities.
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When we have a match, we’ll plan the year ahead so the everyone will become future forward thinkers and do’ers!
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