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Programme Overview
This Faculty Development Programme integrates Design Thinking, Japanese management philosophies, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a cognitive and decision-support tool to enable faculty members to address complex problems more effectively.
The programme positions AI not as a technical skill, but as a partner in thinking—supporting empathy analysis, idea generation, pattern recognition, and decision-making—while retaining human judgment, ethics, and contextual understanding at the core.
Programme Objectives
In addition to existing objectives, participants will:
Understand AI’s role in augmenting design thinking stages
Use AI tools to support problem discovery, insight generation, and ideation, using Japanese management practices.
Programme Structure
Session 1: Design Thinking & AI as a Thinking Partner
Duration: 1.5 Hours
Design thinking as a human-centered problem-solving approach
Where AI fits in the design thinking cycle
AI vs human judgment: complementary roles
Session 2: Japanese Management Philosophy, Lean Thinking & AI Diagnostics
Prof. Ishita Batra is an Assistant Professor (Strategy) at the FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, with her doctoral research focusing on international joint ventures and the role of organizational ambidexterity in enhancing firm performance.
Dr. Batra brings over a decade of teaching, research, and executive training experience. Her teaching interests include Strategic Management, Design Thinking and Creativity, International Business, and Business Ethics. She actively designs and delivers Management Development Programmes (MDPs) on Design Thinking, Innovation, and Creative Problem Solving, catering to faculty members, corporate managers, and institutional leaders.
Her research has been published in leading national and international journals, and her work lies at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and sustainability. She was recognized as a Top-Cited Author by Wiley’s Thunderbird International Business Review (2022–2023). Additionally, she received the Best Paper Award at the Academy of Global Business Advancement (AGBA) Conference 2018, held at NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand.
Prof. Ana Sinha
Prof. Ana Sinha, Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society (UK) is an Assistant Professor (International Business) at the FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India. She has received her Doctorate in Management from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, with her research focusing on ‘wise’ decision making practices and experiences in multicultural workplaces from a managerial perspective.
Dr. Sinha has a Masters in East Asian studies, specialising in East Asian economy and management with a proficiency in Mandarin Chinese from Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi. She has designed, developed and taught courses on International Business for data scientists, Japanese Business Culture and Management, Doing Business with China, Cinema, Global Business and Film Diplomacy and Transmedia Storytelling. She has conducted training sessions with MBA students, doctoral students, faculty members, corporate managers and institutional leader on International Management, Japanese business culture, and Cross-cultural negotiations.
Her research has been published in leading national and international journals. A University Gold Medallist from University of Delhi, she has also been awarded as the Best Doctoral Student at the Indian Strategy Conference 2023, organized by IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, ISB Hyderabad and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
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FORE School of Management has been designing, developing and conducting innovative Executive Education (EE)/ Management Development Programmes (MDPs) for working executives in India for over three decades.
