The Creative Process
FOR EFFECTIVE DESIGN THINKING & INNOVATION
Why Design Thinking Fails (Keynote by Andrew Grant – Innoday Stockholm)
The Creative Process: The 7 Creative & Critical Thinking Rescue Strategies
The Creative Process program consists of the following modules:
Hot Topic: Navigating an AI-Dominated Future with Critical Thinking
Repurposing AI from a “Creative Killer” into a High-Performance Collaborator. (more about our AI offerings)
The Cold Case of Critical Thinking. Stop Being an Intellectual Tourist- How to be better than AI. (YouTube / Audio Overview )
In an era of cheap intelligence, Critical Thinking will be the only thing keeping us relevant and in control. While AI accelerates information processing, it lacks human contextual understanding and ethical judgment. We need to actively develop our own cognitive capabilities. In this session, participants move beyond the validation trap to ensure they remain the architects of their own ideas. It highlights that if a professional’s primary value today is simply validating a robot’s opinions, they aren’t future-proofing their career – they are documenting their own obsolescence. Through the practical models and tools, teams learn to transition from “Passengers” or “Flight Path Checkers” to “Pilots”, using critical thinking as a strategic mindset essential for navigating technological disruption. This is a provocative call to action, recognizing that we should be turning to AI to challenge and extend our thinking, not simply instruct or obey.
The AI Critical Thinking Lab: An Essential Masterclass (Extension)
- Audit Cognitive Strength: Identify where efficiency has led to mental atrophy and reintroduce the critical thinking required for deeper job mastery.
- Architect over Validator: Shift from simply approving AI output to applying the rigorous abstract reasoning and analytical thinking required for generating real-world solutions.
- Leverage AI as a Co-Pilot: Develop strategies to use AI as a collaborator that enhances human ingenuity rather than replacing it. (See full article)
Full Workshop: How to come up with better ideas and solutions faster
Built on a robust Design Thinking model, this comprehensive workshop delivers paired applied capabilities across two specialized modules: The Creative Challenge and The Critical Thinking Lab (Rescue Strategies). It provides a provocative roadmap to reclaim original thought and includes an optional masterclass add-in on AI—transforming it from a “Creative Killer” into a strategic co-pilot. These sessions will empower you to develop the innovative problem-solving capabilities needed to thrive in a complex future.
1: Creative Thinking Rescue Strategies –Better Ideas Faster!
We need creative thinking to generate unique ideas. Creative thinkers will learn to challenge dogma and construct unusual elements based on Divergent Thinking. This session covers personal creativity to redesign your brain.
Enquire & Explore Process
- Divergent thinking to access all parts of your brain (left & right, front & back, thinking fast & slow, processing), the power of ideation, questioning, and harnessing ambiguous thinking.
- By exploring the importance of both divergent and convergent thinking, it is possible to see situations differently and solve complex puzzles.
2: Critical Thinking Rescue Strategies – Better Solutions Faster!
Critical Thinking is a key follow up from Creative Thinking to complete the model and ensure strategic results. Critical Thinking seeks to assess the worth or validity from the new ‘creative’ idea. Critical thinking is the thinking we do when we judge & need to apply ideas. It is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving & implementing the creative ideas. This version of the full CSI2 workshop looks specifically at the right side of the SID model to explore using critical thinking skills.
Solve & Apply Process
- Critical thinking is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it.
- Critical thinkers rigorously question ideas and assumptions rather than accepting them at face value.
- This session will enable participants to determine whether the ideas, arguments and findings represent the entire picture. Participants will also be open to finding that won’t work.
3: Implications & Applications: Business facilitation with case study
Try & Apply:
P&G case study. Practice using the creative thinking and critical thinking methods and our strategies for innovative development model to solve a seemingly impossible “wicked” problem.
Validated through real-world application, this model and these tools are designed for immediate implementation against any emerging challenge. Our ‘Teach and Learn, then Try and Apply’ methodology ensures that participants move beyond theory to deliver practical solutions for current workplace demands, providing a repeatable framework for sustained success
AI and Creative Thinking: Learn when, (if) and how to use AI during the design thinking process.
AI will play a dynamic and collaborative role in Tirian’s creative design thinking workshops. Rather than replacing human ingenuity, our programs are designed to strategically integrate AI as a powerful co-pilot in the creative process. Participants will learn how to leverage AI to accelerate insights, uncover hidden patterns, and expand ideation, all while remaining actively engaged as the essential drivers of creativity. This approach ensures that AI enhances-rather than automates-human creative thinking, empowering individuals and teams to harness both technological and human strengths for breakthrough innovation. (read more)
REC TIME
1/2-1 day
REC SIZE
7-50
PLATFORMS
Keynote, Workshop, Online, Virtual, Self-led
The Creative Process Collaborator Canvas (with Design Thinking tools)
This online canvas comes with complete instructions, videos, and steps for any leader to run the program’s core elements independently with a small team. The boards ensure a quick way to start conservations and develop faster solutions.
