Design Thinking Studio

MMG offers customizable sessions under each category of the design thinking process. Our in-house innovation catalysts can lead your team in a variety of productive and collaborative sessions that can:

• Uncover and align your teams on what your actual business challenges are
• Use consumer data to inspire your teams to ‘walk in your consumers' shoes’ so that unmet needs can be discovered
• Take collaborative groups to the next level of big ideas, by using tried and true lateral thinking tools and other design thinking techniques to ensure solutions are both novel and consumer-centric
• Further develop top ideas, refining them to meet your success criteria and your consumer’s needs, then set up the pitch of these ideas for senior leadership and the rest of the organization

Sessions are fully customized to your group and unique business challenge based on challenge level, number of participants, the extent of tangible idea deliverables, and final report-out presentation structure/involvement. 

Design Thinking Boot Camp – MMG offers various training programs to skill your teams up in the use of design thinking and creative problem solving as a discipline. This training can be customized to the budget and needs of your team in 2,4, 8, or 16-hour packages in both the virtual or in-person environment.  This training is instrumental in creating a culture of innovation within your company. Those participating in this boot camp will learn creativity and innovation tools, behaviors, and techniques in addition to practical idea generation, idea developing, and pitching skills from expert practitioners of the craft. The training includes real-time stories using these tools and techniques from our extensive Disney experience as well as stories from the innovation world at large.

Also, MMG offers specialized innovation training packages and workshops that can hyper-focus on each stage of the process, diving deeper into each section with advanced tools and techniques for scoping, empathizing, ideating, and idea developing/prototyping. Each session is usually 2-4-6 hours and can be held both in-person or virtually.

Sometimes your team needs a pep-talk.  MMG offers many different styles of innovation and creativity keynotes delivered by our expert, former Disney Innovation Catalysts. These keynotes are introspective, interactive, and fun sessions that motivate participants to realize their creative potential and to use that information to challenge themselves, in both their personal and professional lives. Keynote topics include:

• The importance of spontaneity and fresh input
• Creativity tips that can change your business, every day
• Using innovation to up your competitive game
• Walking in your consumers' shoes, using empathy every step of the way
• Getting the best collaboration within your team(s)
• Unleashing your inner creativity hero and using this new power wisely
• Making creativity a daily personal and professional habit
• Using disruptive ideation techniques to create disruptive products and services

Keynotes are offered in 30-45-60-90 minute increments and are available both in-person and virtually. 

In this new ‘work-from-home’ world we live in, virtual video (Zoom) sessions can get repetitive, tiring, and frankly, BORING. At MMG we’ve refined our virtual sessions to be just the opposite: fun, interactive, and memorable using a variety of techniques and tricks from our design thinking dashboard to help participants engage, participate and enjoy our sessions. This is key to the creativity and innovation work we do here at the MMG Design Thinking Studio, and we think you will see a huge difference in both the virtual sessions themselves and the outcomes they produce.