Shilpi Kumar
Founder & Principal Innovation Catalyst @ Khoj Lab | Strategic Research, Design Leadership, New Product Development, Innovation Effectiveness
- Role
- Adjunct Faculty at Institute Of Design Id
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Shilpi Kumar
With over 20 years of experience as a design strategist, user experience researcher, industrial designer, and design educator, I help organizations succeed in innovation by streamlining the flow of ideas to maximize value. I am the founder and innovation catalyst of Khoj Lab, a consulting firm that offers services in process and operations, insight-led innovation, and innovation capability development, using design thinking, lean, and agile methodologies. I also teach a graduate course called ‘Corporate Innovation Effectiveness’ at the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech, where I obtained my Master of Design Methods degree. I specialize in taking an inclusive approach with an eye on bringing diverse perspectives from people across the organization. This approach helps innovation and strategy teams understand the whole view of innovation, draw on existing organizational strengths, and enable quick adoption of ideas. I have worked with Fortune 500 and multi-billion dollar companies, such as GE Transportation Digital and Herman Miller, to define an integrated business process for new product development and align innovation ideas to company strategy using human-centric research. I have led customer experience, scenario planning, organizational transformation, and new product development projects that have resulted in multiple awards and publications.
Experience
Adjunct Faculty
Feb 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Graduate Course: Organizing for Innovation Success, Corporate Innovation Effectiveness
Education
Institute of Design (ID)
Master of Design Methods (MDM), Design Research, Strategy & Innovation
Kendriya Vidyalaya
12th, Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Master of Design (MDes), Industrial Design
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Architecture
Skills
- Workshop Facilitation
- Creative Problem Solving
- Qualitative Research
- Project Management
- Customer Insight
- Lean Startup
- User Scenarios
- Design Strategy
- Strategic Leadership
- Service Design
- User Experience Design
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Ethnography
- Human Centered Design
- Design Management
- Contextual Inquiry
- Design Facilitation
- Strategic Thinking
- Concept Generation
- Rapid Prototyping
- Industrial Design
- Strategy
- Research Design
- Concept Design
- Team Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Public Speaking
- Program Management
- Human Computer Interaction
- Experience Design
- Customer Experience
- Secondary Research
- User-Centered Design
- Business Process Improvement
- Concept Development
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- User Experience
- Marketing Strategy
- Scenario Planning
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