Good course, but does not make sense as part of Leadership Specialization. The amount of work required in the assignments is not proportional to the relevance of the subject in this specialization.

The name shouldn't be Leadership Through Design Innovation, but Design process, or Observation and Design.

The content is interesting and well built, but not suitable for the Leadership Specialization.

The course takes you through an entire conventional process of applying design principles. That's the good part. Learners who are ready to apply themselves, will takeaway key learnings. While rigor is appreciated the process, activities, instructions etc need more simplification. As a user it feels very laborious at the end of it all. The video learnings also need to include some more new age content, tools, software access for designs that can be used for the projects.

Good discussion poor assignments

I found the videos on innovation a but 'hollow',, not much new stuff there. This unit of the specailization does not come up to the standard of the other courses in this specialization, which were really great. The course also left me frustrated due to the task in the second week. Generating a minimum of 15 ideas (if you are alone) is maybe a little exaggerated. I came up with 6 ideas, but I suppose that is not good enough. No good submitting my ideas, as I do not have the requisite number. I'm thinking of quitting the course. Talk of motivating people! I also found the task limited in its topic, it did not give you freedom of developing your own ideas. Why not give some possible areas of innovation, but leave it to the students to come up with other things?

This module does not seem to fit to the course main purpose, it is more fitable to an innovation course. Just some of the last videos are about leadership. Also, the tasks are meant to be outside and with some people. As we are under pandemic restrictions, some of them were not posible to be fullfilled what descrease the points.

While there are some interesting elements, taking a course on leadership without actual leadership skills included is not what I expected. Evaluating a grocery store layout may sound fun to a design-minded person, but not so fun for someone who is interested in general leadership training.

very long and time consuming and its hard to get your peer to grade your submissions

Worst course from the entire certification. It is very time-consuming, centered around design, and if you are not a Design or Marketing major, this is absolutely a waste of time. Also, the assignments that you hand in need to be graded by peers, but the Forum is full of requests asking to be graded, some requests are from weeks, months, even years (oldest one was from 2021), which if you are not graded by a peer, you cannot get a grade for your assignment, and it is also a huge waste of time. The course is supposed to have an AI grading tool, but it is useless if you have to wait months to get a grade. I wanted to take more courses, but this inefficiency is making me look elsewhere to obtain certifications. It is definitely NOT worth your money and time to use Coursera.

I love the concept of design thinking and the approaches leaders can and should take to address change management and innovations, and I have learned this topic from other classes and professors. The concepts are good, however, the assignments and design of this course activities are highly irrelevant to leadership or management. At some point, I started to doubt if the faculty understand what leadership means and how it can be connected and integrated into the subject. By far the most disappointing course I took.

Totally irrelevant in terms of marketing & brand management perspective. It can a be a good course for designers rather than marketer.

I am stuck to take it, but if i have the option to drop it, I will do so. But I want to earn the specialization certificate.

This course was not easy to complete with the current COVID-19 restrictions here in Canada (and probably around the world). It should have been updated.

The exam is not practical and has deterred me from advancing. I have been working on a project for the last month to be able to pass it.

I held a Design Thinking for Innovation workshop with my employees by asking them to identify pain points associated with completing their day to day tasks. 45 ideas were generated in the ideation phase. In a matter of 3 months we have already completed 30% of their ideas and another 25% are in various phases of development. These ideas have streamlined our communications and accelerated the learning curve for training of new hires. The activity also increased teamwork and job satisfaction, which is evident in the level of creativity and initiative shown by the employees.

Excellent course, very grateful to COURSERA and NORTWESTERN UNIVERSITY, now I know how to develop and test prototypes very important in design innovation. It will definitely help me a lot in my professional and personal life.

SO far I've enjoyed it and it's the course why I started the specialization for, and instead of taking it separate from the others, it's way better to have the full track to get the 360 view

The course, Leadership Through Design Innovation, challenged me and successfully took me out of my comfort zone. Using applied learning techniques, I was able to dig deep within myself.

Enjoyed the journey through the course. The projects are integral to gain confidence on applying design thinking. However, they are time intensive and require commitment.

Probably the hardest so far of the Org Leadership Specialization, but in a good way. This course really stretched me and gave me skills I can use with any job.

The tasks are short but are tedious. (Tbh, I spent days avoiding to finish this course 😂). Nevertheless, I have learned a lot from the course. 5/5.

I highly recommend this course for anybody aspiring to become the best leader they can. Very useful exercises and tools for future use.

Great great just enjoyed a lot and learn more by this course thank u team Coursera. It's helps me to develop my leadership skills

Probably the most eye-opening and useful class of all the specialization. Took significantly more time, but was very insightful.

Great course about Design Innovation. It's really clear, well-thought and entertaining. The assignments are great too.

This course extremely challenged me in my thought process and has changed how I will lead my teams moving forward.

I found this one extremely useful for all managers who need to work with new products or improve existing ones.