EDGE2210. Innovation Lab: How to Prototype Your Firm’s Future

To submit a question or participate in polling, click the link above. The CPA industry is going through rapid, massive changes. There are so many complex problems swirling around. Firms haven’t faced such difficult changes in our past and don’t know how to solve these kinds of issues. This session gives you a proven toolkit to do just that. You’ll have fun in this high energy, hands-on introduction to Stanford’s famous innovation process called Design Thinking. We’ll create real prototypes to solve a common CPA firm problem! You’ll walk away with a process that can accelerate the speed and effectiveness of how you develop new services, processes and a thriving future for your entire organization.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the framework of Stanford’s famous Design Thinking innovation process and why it matters to CPAs
• Apply Design Thinking to a common CPA firm problem in session
• Identify how to bring this back to your firm so you can solve your most pressing problems