More than ever, public institutions and entities need to be able to adapt and respond quickly to an ever changing and complex environment and context. Design is a systematic way of navigating within uncertainty and ambiguity and developing solutions that hit the needs of your target groups and users. Through a four module training program, you will be introduced to all the basic principles, perspectives and tools for applying design driven innovation within public institutions successfully.
The virtual training program is divided into two units.
Consisting of the first two modules, will give you a thorough introduction to the theory and praxis of design driven public innovation and how to manage processes, people and teams in uncertainty and ambiguity.
Both modules focus on how you can use future scenarios as a design tool for strategizing.
Christian Bason is the Chief Executive (CEO) of the Danish Design Centre, which works on behalf of the Danish government to advance the value of design for business and society. Christian was in 2007-2014 Director of MindLab, the Danish government’s innovation lab. From 1998 to 2006 he held various leadership positions in Ramboll Management, a consultancy, including as Business Manager for the management, organisation and policy evaluation practices. Christian holds an M.Sc. in Political Science from Aarhus University and a Ph.D. in design, leadership and public governance from Copenhagen Business School, CBS. His doctoral thesis was conducted with Oxford Business School professor Rafael Ramirez as co-advisor.
As COO of the Danish Design Centre, Sune Knudsen has the primary responsibility for the organisation’s internal life and organisational performance. Sune oversees the continuous development and implementation of the DDC’s strategy and ensures that the DDC’s projects and programmes are aligned. As HR director, Sune is also responsible for ensuring that the DDC always has the necessary in-house competences required to realize the strategy.
Sara has been working within the field of design, innovation and healthcare for more than 10 years, developing products and services for the healthcare sector, advising policy level, and implementing innovation policy and strategy.
Sara is head of the Danish Design Centre’s business and focus area and the team Future Health. The team explores how design can radically improve healthcare services and solutions across the public and private sector and, while elevating advanced technology, is fully centered around the patient experience. The goal is to facilitate the creation of ground-breaking new services and products as well as public-private innovation frameworks by tackling challenges through experimentation and harnessing the benefits of the developments in technology and access to new data.
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April 19, 2021 (10:30-12:30am EST)
Get an introduction to the praxis and principles of design driven innovation in the public sector.
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Sara Gry Striegler,
M.Sc. Engineering (Design Engineer), Programme Director, Social Transformation, Danish Design Centre
April 14, 2021 • 10:30am-12:30pm EST
Experience and learn how scenarios can help you think strategically about uncertain futures, through the methodology of Scenario Design.
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Sara Gry Striegler, Programme director, DDC
April 19, 2021 • 10:30am-12:30pm EST
Get tools and methods for working with and implementing strategic learning as part of decision processes in organizations working with complex, societal issues.
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Christian Bason,CEO, DDC
April 21, 2021 • 10:30am-12:30pm EST
Get tools and methods for working with and implementing strategic learning as part of decision processes and governance models in organizations working with complex, societal issues.
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Sune Knudsen, COO, DDC
Christian Bason is the Chief Executive (CEO) of the Danish Design Centre, which works on behalf of the Danish government to advance the value of design for business and society. Christian was in 2007-2014 Director of MindLab, the Danish government’s innovation lab. From 1998 to 2006 he held various leadership positions in Ramboll
Management, a consultancy, including as Business Manager for the management, organisation and policy evaluation practices. Christian holds an M.Sc. in Political Science from Aarhus University and a Ph.D. in design, leadership and public governance from Copenhagen Business School, CBS. His doctoral thesis was conducted with Oxford Business School professor Rafael Ramirez as co-advisor.
Christian is a prolific contributor to blogs and magazines, including Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Danish weekly business and political magazine Mandag Morgen. He is the author of seven books on design, innovation and management, most recently Leading Public Design (2017), Form Fremtiden (Shape the future; 2016), Design for Policy (2014) and Leading Public Sector Innovation (2010, 2018). Christian is a visiting associate professor at several executive educations, including Oxford Saïd Business School, the European School of Administration, Copenhagen Business School and Aarhus University.
Christian is a member of the board for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK), and a member of The Rockwool Foundation’s Research Programme Committee. He is a former Chair of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Public Sector Innovation and a former member of the European Design Leadership Board. Currently, he is a member of the SIRI Commission, the Danish government's challenge panel on public innovation and digitization and the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council on Agile Governance.
As COO of the Danish Design Centre, Sune Knudsen has the primary responsibility for the organisation’s internal life and organisational performance. Sune oversees the continuous development and implementation of the DDC’s strategy and ensures that the DDC’s projects and programmes are aligned. As HR director, Sune is also responsible for ensuring that the DDC always has the necessary in-house competences required to realize the strategy.
Sune Knudsen has experience from both the private and public sectors and NGOs. For the past nine years, he has worked at the intersection of design, innovation and strategy in both national and international contexts, developing initiatives, project, policies, methods and institutions with a particular emphasis on involving and generating an impact for clients and users. His previous employments include Implement Consulting Group, the Danish Business Authority, the Danish Ministry of Employment, Defence Command Denmark and MindLab.
Sune has extensive management experience, and for several years he has both developed and headed units working with design and innovation. Sune has also been responsible for strategy development and implementation in several organisations, at group level and in business units, and has been involved in developing performance management systems as well as project and programme organisations. Sune has in-depth knowledge of business policies especially how they are developed in interaction with private companies.
Sune holds a master’s degree in political sciences from the University of Copenhagen and has co-authored two books on change in the public sector, including "Sæt borgeren i spil. Sådan involverer du borgere og virksomheder i offentlig innovation" (Citizen involvement. Involving citizens and companies in public innovation). He is much in demand as a speaker, both in Denmark and abroad.
Sara has been working within the field of design, innovation and healthcare for more than 10 years, developing products and services for the healthcare sector, advising policy level, and implementing innovation policy and strategy.
Sara is head of the Danish Design Centre’s business and focus area and the team Future Health. The team explores how design can radically improve healthcare services and solutions across the public and private sector and, while elevating advanced technology, is fully centered around the patient experience. The goal is to facilitate the creation of ground-breaking new services and products as well as public-private innovation frameworks by tackling challenges through experimentation and harnessing the benefits of the developments in technology and access to new data.
Sara led the design-driven strategy process, co-creating the innovation strategy with and for the Capital Region of Denmark managing 5 big hospitals in Denmark. The work has contributed to the transformation of the organization and the strengthening and prioritization of innovation and has provided management decision-making basis for concrete implementation plans that can support innovation efforts among employees and businesses.
Sara also leads the programme Boxing Future Health – a future lab for health. Boxing Future Health consists of physical manifestations of future health in 2050 - four plausible scenarios. She leads the team running collaborative workshops with both private and public leaders and innovators to explore the consequences of alternative futures for their products, services, and business and governance models.
The lab was created through a comprehensive co-creation process with more than 100 experts and with five close partners: two major hospitals, two educational institutions and the industry association, the Medico Industry.
Previously Sara has been serving as an internal consultant and advisor for the Capital Region of Denmark, managing more than 40.000 healthcare professionals, where she amongst others, was responsible for implementing the innovation policy from the policy level to operation management, teaching innovation methods and tools. Sara holds a Master of Science degree in engineering, Design & Innovation from the Technical University of Denmark.