In this webinar, Professor Jeanne Liedtka updates us on her research of the most impactful use cases of design thinking in practice and shares a framework that anyone can use to self-assess the impact of design thinking within their own organization.

Evaluating the Impact of Design Thinking in Action II

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In our first webinar with Professor Jeanne Liedtka (University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business), she reported on her in-depth research of over 30 organizations who used design thinking in practice - so that we could understand how to legitimately evaluate design thinking's overall impact. But as we continue to make more progress with design thinking and it becomes even more popular, the urgency of how we measure it continues to grow.

In this webinar, Jeanne will share updates on her previous research study as well as introduce a new tool which allows you to self-assess the impact of design thinking within your own organization and see how your results compare to those of other companies.

You won’t want to miss this opportunity to better understand the ROI of design thinking plus get access to this new tool so you can participate and evaluate your organization.

REMEMBER: If you can't attend the live session - SIGN UP ANYWAYS! We'll send the video replay to everyone who registers, so you can learn on your own time. 🎯

https://blog.mural.co/designthinking-roi-2

In this webinar, Robert Skrobe (Dallas Design Sprints) shares how the first global virtual design sprint began, what he learned to improve future sprints,  and how you and your team can run your own virtual design sprint using MURAL.

 If design sprints work well with everyone in the same room, could that same success be achieved in a virtual environment?  More importantly, could design sprint practitioners make the transition from a physical sprint to a remote one?

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The first ever global virtual design sprint was done on a simple thesis: If design sprints work well with everyone in the same room, could that same success be achieved in a virtual environment?  More importantly, could design sprint practitioners make the transition from a physical sprint to a remote one?

Last November, we teamed up with design sprint master Robert Skrobe to run the first ever global virtual design sprint, bringing together practitioners, thought leaders and design sprint enthusiasts from Romania, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South and North America.  Robert and his team organized and facilitated the virtual design sprint event towards a surprisingly successful outcome, allowing everyone involved to practice and apply various design sprint methodologies and processes for a broad variety of interesting ideas and challenges.

In this webinar, Robert Skrobe (Dallas Design Sprints) will explain how you and your team can run your own virtual design sprint using MURAL. We’ll share how the first global virtual design sprint achieved their success, and their plans for an even bigger event this upcoming April.  

https://blog.mural.co/global-design-sprint

In this webinar, Maura Hoven (Sr. Product Designer, UserTesting) will share how she mitigates the pressure of heavy design sessions so her (mostly-remote) team can regularly flex their design muscles - getting everyone involved, on board, and making design a habit.

Empowering Remote Teams To Collaborate Visually

Design-led organizations thrive when they instill a culture that makes it safe and normal for their teams to collaborate visually. In this customer story, learn methods to make design thinking a habit with your remote teams.

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Design-led organizations thrive when they instill a culture that makes it safe and normal for their teams to collaborate visually.

But culture takes time to develop and not everyone becomes a design guru overnight. Forcing teams who aren't ready or experienced into grandiose design sessions will be stressful and counter-productive.

Utilizing more frequent, shorter touchpoints instead of intense, heavy design sessions helps alleviate the pressure and cognitive burden of lengthy ideation sessions while making sure everyone's engaged and learning together.

In this webinar, Maura Hoven (Sr. Product Designer, UserTesting) will share the methods she applies to her mostly-remote team of designers, engineers and researchers so they can regularly flex their design muscles - getting everyone involved, on board, and making design a habit that fits alongside their day-to-day obligations.

Many times we don’t have the time or resources to conduct a full design sprint - and we spend too much time belaboring the prototyping phase when we could be utilizing tools to help us test quickly and  efficiently.

Build More, Faster - With Collaborative Prototyping

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You don’t always have the time or resources to conduct a full design  sprint. But you do want to prototype and test your concept before fully  building it.

By using the right tools, your team can fly through your next prototyping phase and test more efficiently.

In this webinar, Douglas Ferguson (President of Voltage Control) will share collaborative prototyping techniques that bring teams together to build more, faster.

https://blog.mural.co/collaborative-prototyping

As facilitators, we just got everyone comfy using sticky notes and colored markers, but there’s more to teach.  It’s our goal to show you how, with forethought, conducting remote workshops can be as productive as running them in person.

Three Keys For Running Successful Remote Workshops

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Design workshops help companies frame challenging problems and find  optimal solutions - but what happens when you're on a globally  distributed team? The chops we've developed for running workshops and  meetings in a room together don't always map to online.

In this webinar, Jim Kalbach (Head of CX, MURAL) and Mark Tippin (Head of Facilitation, MURAL) will share insights from their new book, The Definitive Guide to Facilitating Remote Workshops.

 1. What the three critical elements are you must consider before planning your workshop. (The Three T's)

 2. How to create the flow that guides your participants through the discussions and gets you to the insights.

 3. Insights from industry leaders that are using MURAL to run remote design workshops.

 Plus, pitch your questions to Jim and Mark to answer in our Q&A session at the end of the webinar.

Design sprints allow teams to focus on a single problem over a few days, leading to breakthroughs that might otherwise take months. For teams that can’t get together in the same room, remote design sprints can reap the same or even better results.

Special Touches That Make Your Sprint Kickass

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You’ve read Sprint, watched the training videos, and practiced the exercises. You’re prepped and excited to facilitate your first (or second, or third) design sprint.

But perhaps what you haven’t learned yet is what comes from mastering the real-world sprint experience.

As a facilitator, you have the opportunity to create brief experiences to elevate/punctuate moments throughout the sprint.

These special touches are where impact is made, what clients remember - and what make your sprint kickass.

In this webinar, Dee Scarano (Lead Design Sprint Trainer at AJ&Smart)  will share insights from running hundreds of design sprints and  training people from some of the biggest and best companies in the  world.

Leading creative conversations means guiding them through the challenges of group dynamics. And there are simple ways to frame conversations large and small to navigate those challenges.

Conversations matter. We literally build our lives one conversation  at a time, but we're also defined by the limits of the conversations we  can and can't have.

Leading creative conversations means guiding  them through the challenges of group dynamics. And there are simple ways  to frame conversations large and small to navigate those challenges.

In this webinar, Daniel Stillman  (The Conversation Factory) will share some simple frameworks for  facilitating conversations, workshops, and meetings of all shapes and  sizes - drawing from research gathered on his podcast The Conversation Factory and his upcoming book: 9 Conversations.

https://blog.mural.co/conversation-design-webinar

Make Meaningful Progress Via Remote Design Sprints

 Right now you may be juggling multiple projects individually or with  your team - multitasking to the extreme - but none of them seem to be  making any meaningful progress.

A design sprint is a great way to  break this cycle by bringing your team together to focus on a single  problem - but what if your team doesn’t have the time or budget to fly  everyone to the same location to run a sprint?

In this webinar, Joe Lalley (Head of Product Management & User Experience at PwC) and Greg Smith (Sr Creative Account Manager at PwC) will share how their team broke the cycle by running a fully remote design sprint.

They’ll reference how they planned and ran the sprint - including the advantages, disadvantages, and surprises.

https://blog.mural.co/design-sprint-webinar

Creativity and innovatio-while difficult to quantify-are essential for driving change. Studying innovation at 400+ companies, IDEO has uncovered the six behaviors of creative and innovative teams.

Six Behaviors of Creative and Innovative Teams

How can you make your organization more innovative, adaptive, and creatively competitive?

Too many executives focus on ideas, but to generate powerful and  effective solutions, they ought to instead focus on behaviors and  culture—fostering teams that ask questions, experiment, refine, and  collaborate.

After studying 400+ companies, global design firm IDEO has identified six essential qualities to drive innovation.

In this webinar, David Aycan,  Managing Director - IDEO Products, shares insights from his research  and explains how your team can drive change through creativity and  innovation.

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In this webinar, Joni Saylor explain the payoff of IBM’s early investment in “virtual studios” and remote collaboration best practices.

We started the year with Jeanne Liedtka’s framework to measure the  ROI of Design Thinking. Now we’re bringing in Forrester to share their  findings from an impact study they conducted examining the ROI that IBM  has realized from using MURAL.

In this webinar, Joni Saylor, Design Principal at IBM and Dean  Davison, Principal Consultant - TEI at Forrester explain the payoff of  IBM’s early investment in “virtual studios” and their journey &  evolution to be able to work in person and remotely.

Register now for the ROI of Remote Design Thinking webinar and get early access to the Forrester Total Economic Impact study.

Learn how to use Design Thinking methods in your everyday work

Using Design Thinking in Your Everyday Work

People around the globe have recognized the value of design thinking,  yet many are struggling to successfully integrate it into their daily  work and work culture.

In this webinar, Chris Pacione, LUMA CEO & Founder, will share a recipe for how to use design thinking with a remote team to visualize a customer's experience with the products or services your organization offers so you can better understand:

What is working well in your current process

Where the most promising opportunities for change lie

 This is part two of our series "Using Design Thinking in Your Everyday Work". You can watch part one here.

Design thinking is widely adopted by the most innovative companies and organizations - but how do we truly measure its ROI? In this webinar, Professor Jeanne Liedtka dissects the impact of design thinking based on over 6 years of research from over 30 organizations using design thinking in practice.

Evaluating the Impact of Design Thinking in Action

Design thinking offers a problem-solving approach widely adopted by the  most innovative companies and organizations - but how do we truly  measure its impact?

In this webinar, Professor Jeanne Liedtka of the University of  Virginia’s Darden School of Business will report on the results of  research conducted at UVA over the past 6 years of over 30 organizations  using design thinking in practice to:

Identify the most effective elements actually practiced under the rubric of “design thinking”

Assess design thinking’s value for enhancing innovation outcomes

Evaluate the overall impact of design thinking in practice

You  won’t want to miss this opportunity to better understand the ROI of  design thinking based on the deepest research and most systematic  analysis known to-date.

Distributed teams can outperform collocated teams, but only if they are confident and coordinated. How do you prepare for remote collaboration?

Distributed teams can outperform collocated teams, but only if they  are confident and coordinated. How do you prepare for remote  collaboration? What makes that time together most productive? Our  easy-to-implement advice helps align remote teams and accelerate their  innovation no matter where they’re geographically located.

In  this 60-minute webinar, we'll teach you what to do before, during and  after your collaborative sessions, incorporating digital solutions to  take your best ideas farther.

Best Practices for planning and executing your remote sessions

Using templates and frameworks to scale your processes

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Does your team apply user insights toward each iteration of your product? Learn how IBM Design experts Eric Morrow and John Murray use a design tool called User Story Mapping to improve user research, team collaboration and product delivery.

How well do you think your product team takes what they learn from  their users and puts it into the next iteration of the product? How well  does your team come to a common understanding of what the next  iteration of the product will look like and then build a product that  reflects that common understanding?

These two  problems — improving your product with user research and effective team  collaboration — can both be solved with a design tool called User Story  Mapping.

After you register, make sure to check out their two part case study breaking down the high level strategy and the granular tactics of running a User Story Mapping workshop.

Join us to build experiences with IBM's Eric Morrow and John Murray.

https://embed.vidyard.com/share/hBvpmV9hhva3B8dSLi7Nm3?

Product management expert Dan Olsen will share advice from his book The Lean Product Playbook on how to achieve product-market fit.

A Playbook for Achieving Product-Market Fit

Product management expert Dan Olsen will share advice from his book The Lean Product Playbook  on how to achieve product-market fit. Dan will describe his Lean  Product Process, a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to:

Specify your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) feature set

Dan will illustrate his concepts with real-world examples and case studies.

Come learn how to turn product definition and development into more of a science than an art to improve your odds of success.

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People around the globe have recognized the value of design  thinking, yet many are struggling to successfully integrate it  into their daily work and work culture.

In this webinar, Chris Pacione, LUMA CEO & Founder,  will introduce us to the LUMA System of Innovation  and share practical examples that will help you:

Become a more confident and capable problem solver

Equip your team to collaborate, think differently and deliver more impactful solutions

Transform your organization into a place where people and innovation flourish

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In this webinar, Brittni will explore how you can take the design sprint process and easily reformat to help you run the best meetings and workshops of your career, AND get buy-in from your team to adopt this way of working - by taking the core design sprint exercises + principles to get things done faster, better & happier! 

How Design Sprints Can Be Reformatted For Any Workshop/Meeting

Brittni will explore how you can take the design sprint process and easily reformat it in a way that helps you run the best meetings and workshops of your career, AND get buy-in from your team to adopt this way of working - by taking the core design sprint exercises and principles to get things done faster, better & happier! Hosted by Brittni Bowering, Design Sprint Expert & Head of Brand at AJ&Smart

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After running hundreds of design sprints and training thousands of people across the world, AJ&Smart have a good handle on the most common challenges that people face when attempting to introduce a new process, both personally and within a company.

Some of the questions AJ&Smart get asked about most are:
🗣 Can I/we reap the benefits of the design sprint without having to commit to the entire process off the bat? 
🗣 I'm not a designer - is the design sprint applicable to my job? I'm a (insert any job title here).
🗣 How can I run an amazing, interactive, productive & engaging 1 hour workshop/meeting? 
🗣 I want to take my role to the next level - what tactic(s) can I use to do this?
🗣 I'm a junior and don't have the authority to decide that we should start running sprints but I want to get things moving in that direction - what can I do? 
🗣 How do you actually convince someone of the benefits of a process that demands significant resources and time commitment from key stakeholders?
🗣 How can you build design sprint evangelists within your organization quickly?

Brittni will explore how you can take the design sprint process and easily reformat it in a way that helps you run the best meetings and workshops of your career, AND get buy-in from your team to adopt this way of working - by taking the core design sprint exercises and principles to get things done faster, better & happier! 

https://mural.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QKlCsmeoQSaZWpTNUUmojg

Our 45-minute weekly demo gives you basic, hands-on guidance to using MURAL effectively. We cover a range of topics from the basics of adding content onto the canvas to common use cases, depending on the audience.

This session is geared towards new users, but will also include some advanced topics.

This webinar gives you basic, hands-on guidance to using MURAL effectively. We'll cover a range of topics from the basics of adding content on the canvas to common use cases, depending on the audience.

This is geared for new users, but will also include some advanced topics.

https://mural.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uDas86vkQFasAt48APUhvw

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