Business Design for Social Innovators

Join us for a workshop on Business Design for Social Innovators, open only to Nova SBE students

Business Design combines human-centered design methodologies and mindsets with business model and strategy tools and approaches to solve business challenges. Social Innovators can leverage business design to:

• De-risk business ideas and draft models to move a business concept forward.
• Create products and services that deliver unmatched value to customers
• Improve on existing products, services and offers
• Refine their business model to achieve scale and impact
• Improve their internal business processes and structures
• Design strategies to deliver better impact
• Create partnerships that can help scale their business

For this workshop, we will explore how social innovators can leverage the art of business prototyping to refine aspects of their businesses that are essential to achieving product-market fit and impact.

The workshop will be facilitated by Isaac Jumba, the Spring 2023 Social Innovator-in-Residence invited by the ERA Chair in Social Innovation. The workshop is organized by the DESIS Lab @ Nova SBE in partnership with the Haddad Institute Entrepreneurship. The workshop will take place at the Haddad Institute.

More about Isaac Jumba:

Isaac is the founder of Mideva Labs – a research, design and innovation consultancy studio based in Nairobi Kenya, and a co-founder of Idea Studio Africa – a community-powered learning, skills development and apprenticeship studio helping young professionals build meaningful career pathways in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Isaac previously co-founded the Africa YES Program – a 6-month leadership and entrepreneurship accelerator program for young social entrepreneurs in Kenya, which has supported over 80 entrepreneurs to launch social ventures since 2019.

Isaac has over 8 years of experience working in the design, social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem across Africa and supporting initiatives around the world, including working for openIDEO – IDEO’s open innovation platform that supported innovators across the globe to solve some of the biggest world’s challenges.

He brings deep expertise in leveraging the human-centred design and strategy approaches in helping teams, individuals and organizations innovate sustainably to achieve impact.

Isaac has a passion for designing with and working with communities and young people to achieve impact and is interested in exploring ways to rethink learning and in investment in young people and their ideas for a better future.

Isaac holds certifications in Entrepreneurship, Human-Centered Design, Business Design, and Strategy Design, and a bachelor’s in Computer Science.