This is a first draft for the community we are envisioning. It is temporarily made available for advisors and partners to help us in our first steps, as we try to build our community.

1. MONTREAL’S DESIGN
THINKING COMMUNITY

2. THE VISION
what we want to accomplish

3. BREAKING SILOS
➤ The Montreal DT community
will bring together artists,
scientists, business people,
economists…
➤ In order to create cross-
disciplinary bonds & learning
➤ And help strengthen the
Montreal local community
We do this through…
Learning
DT
Creating
Projects
with NGOs
Leadership
Training for
Members
Crafting
OutReach
Material

4. THE
LEARNING
What we will learn

5. ➤ Bootcamp : 1st Week of AugustTopic Format In Partnership With…
Welcome Speech Kick-starting the day 10 minutes introduction Host + DJ
1st Session Inspirational Talk
20 minutes presentation about the impact
DT can have and our community’s vision
& objectives
Founding members
2nd Session Introduction to DT The Wallet Game (90 min) DT Facilitator : Toni
3rd Session Interactive Workshop 20 minutes presentation (overview of DT) DT Facilitator
LUNCH
4th Session Our Outpost Community &
Leadership Track
Presentation on our leadership track to
recruit community leaders
Founding Members
5th Session Making an Impact
Presentation on areas of Identifying
Community Needs
Rotary or other global organization with
knowledge in areas of service
6th Session Program Overview
Our upcoming activities & how our
community functions
Founding members
7th Session Brainstorming Causes
Workshop to uncover interests &
resources within DT community
Corina
Closing Remarks Wrapping up the day 10 minutes conclusion Host
NETWORKING Light snacks & non-alcoholic
refreshments
40 minutes cocktail
Sponsor for the meal & volunteers to place
catering on tables & set room
Kick-Off & Bootcamp
1st week of August

6. HOW IT WORKS
➤ Bootcamps (2x a year)
➤ Full-Day Workshops
➤ Aimed at inspiring, educating and training DT community members
➤ Brings together DT Facilitators, Community Leaders & Experts
➤ Conference & Interactive Workshop (1x a month)
➤ Crash-Course for the respective phase
➤ In preparation for community project meeting
➤ Can contain optional viewing material for home (link, videos, etc.)
➤ Community Project Meeting (1x every 2 months)
➤ Can take place on the same day as the conference, on an a separate day
➤ Participants apply their skills to a real-life problem, presented to us by our Community Partners
➤ Outreach
➤ Leadership training material produced for our DT community will be made available for other community leaders around the
world
➤ Conferences, workshops and community projects will generate 1-5 minutes edited videos or interviews, and will be made
available as inspiration and idea bank for other community leaders around the world

7. ROADMAP
Topic Conference Community Project Outreach Activities Key Resources
Human-Centerer
Design
Video or Conference
+ Discussion Groups
Introducing community
partners & choosing teams ➤ PDF List of
Resources
➤ Teaser Videos
➤ Interviews
➤ Discussion Group
Summaries
➤ Copy of
Workshop
Instructions
Acumen +
Developing Empathy Interactive Format -
Gathering Insights Video or Conference
+ Discussion Groups
Gathering Insights with
Community Partners
Rotary
Engaging with
Ambiguity
Interactive Format -
Personal Leadership (or
other tool)
Developing Ideas
Video or Conference
+ Discussion Groups
Brainstorming ideas
Teamwork Across
Functions
Interactive Format -
Prototyping Video or Conference
+ Discussion Groups
Building prototypes of the
service or product ideas
Acumen +
Business Model Canvas
Communicating
Complex Ideas
Interactive Format -
Storytelling
Video or Conference
+ Discussion Groups
Learn to tell a compelling
story for the service
Acumen +
Toastmasters
AGILE Meets DT Interactive Format - University of Virginia

8. THE
BUILDING
What we will contribute

9. COMMUNITY PROJECTS EXPLAINED
➤ The DT Community will select
desired projects or community
partners at the beginning of the year
➤ Interactive sessions will be held with
these organizations to discover their
needs
➤ Organizations may then volunteer to
partake in ideation and prototyping,
or they may provide an ambassador
which may be reached by the DT
community for questions throughout
the design exercises

10. COMMUNITY PROJECTS MEETINGS :
THE FORMAT
➤ Organization will present
service
➤ Breakout groups will explore
need in detail
➤ Interviewers will then share
insights to the entire group
➤ This allows all team members
to rotate across projects for
each meeting (phase)
First
Meeting

11. COMMUNITY PROJECTS MEETINGS :
THE FORMAT
➤ Process Outline
➤ Breakout groups for ideation,
prototyping, storytelling, etc
➤ Summary presentation to all
members at end of meeting
➤ Meeting notes from each team
loaded onto DT Community’s
private Google Drive
Subsequent
Meeting

12. THE
OUTREACH
PROGRAM
Creating a way forward

13. USING TECHNOLOGY AS ACCELERATOR
➤ Many tools and documents exist for DT communities,
including from IDEO, Acumen+ and Stanford.
➤ Whenever possible, we will use existing material
➤ Any time we face a knowledge gap and feel our experience
could contribute to the community, we will issue a ppt, blog
article or document to share with the global DT Community
➤ We will use podcasts, videos, photography, blog articles and
any other medium throughout our adventure to encourage
community building, identity fostering and branding for our
DT community in Montreal

14. THE PEOPLE
Leadership & Sustainability Plan

15. “Our main objective is building a
sustainable DT community over time.

16. THIS MEANS...
➤ Early identification of members' current and latent skills
➤ A community model based on co-creation
➤ A strong culture of Intrapreneurship

17. OUR VISION FOR FOSTERING
INTRAPRENEURSHIP IN OUR DT COMMUNITY
➤ Have Intrapreneurship Sponsors
➤ Founders, advisors and board members must actively encourage and promote intrapreneurhsip
➤ When someone volunteers, keep the intrapreneur involved in the project from A to Z
➤ Promotes sens of ownernship,
➤ Intrapeneur = driving force
➤ Give your DT Community intrapreneur autonmy
➤ Can access resources and exchange information without going through someone ‘’official’’
➤ Tolerate risks, failures & mistakes
➤ Celebrate failures as opportunities to learn and grow
➤ Let people fail so they can learn
➤ Have a long-term philosophy towards success
➤ 1-3 years for an idea to completely develop; don’t expect immediate results for some initiatives
➤ Have smaller milestones (quick, frequent iterations) to keep team motivated and celebrate the journey
➤ Give the teams the resources they need
➤ Limited budget & number of volunteers you can allocate
➤ Free the intrapraneurs up from other DT Community obligations if they have to focus on something big
➤ Reward according to dual promotion system
➤ Not everyone wants to become an executive member
➤ Find different, relevant ways to reward different kinds of contributions, from the small to the big ones
➤ Every bit of help is useful and makes a difference ; we each contribute what we can!
➤ Be generous with praise and honest with coaching feedback to help members develop their potential as leaders

18. COMMITTEES
Sponsorship
Outreach &
Media
DT Community
Communication
Program
Development
Strategic
Advisors
Community
Partners
Coordinator
Chair
Community
Partners
Sister
Organizations
Advisory Board
Executive Committee
Angels
Sponsors
Facilitators

19. TRAINING THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
➤ A half-day training will be offered to incoming leaders in the DT Community
➤ The first year, the training will be peer-based and created as a brainstorming and
discussion facilitation workshop
➤ On subsequent year, the training will contain common core sections, followed by one-to-
one knowledge transfer from outgoing to incoming executives
➤ Documentation from existing sources as well as documentation created through the
Outreach initiative will be made available to leaders on the platform
➤ A portion of the training day will focus on Experential Learning - teaching the steps for
leaders to learn by doing, and improve their knowledge without extensive formal training.
This is coherent with the entrepreneurship model used throughout the DT community.
➤ The first year, a small group of people may fulfill some of the roles. As the community
grows, more and more tasks will be delegated.
➤ The Bootcamp period will be a prime moment for current leaders to identify the leader
potential within the community, and approach members for positions in the executive
committee.

20. FUNDING, TOOLS & PARTNERS
Gaining support of our community

21. RESOURCES DASHBOARD
in
progress
Conference Venue
Finance & Sponsorship
in
progress
Advisory Board
Community Partners
Community
Members
Sister Organizations
in
progress
in
progress
Strategic Direction &
Program Development
needs
additional
actors
Executive Committee

22. STRATEGIC COMMITTEE
(The names of our strategic committee will go here, with a short description of
respective competencies)

23. PROJECTED EXPENSES
Per month One-time Cost
Total Yearly
(10 months)
Bootcamp
Cocktail
12$ per person $240
Conference
Material +
Meetup
$40 $400
Collaboration
Tool
$30 $300
Email automation
for reminders and
new
$5 $50
Estimated Total $990
Can be
supported by
participants at
first
Sponsorship
can be
requested for
software

24. SPONSOR IDEAS
➤ Apple Store
➤ One tablet loaned per team for the community partner project
➤ Possible one-hour training with photo and video editing apps
for iPad (ex. iMove and Aperture)
➤ Private Companies, Young Chamber of Commerce or
Government
➤ 40$ per month to cover costs for Meetup & Material
➤ Collaboration Tool (exo, Basecamp, JIRA or other)
➤ Allow documents sharing and task follow-ups for executives,
as well as document storing for members

25. SISTER ORGANIZATIONS
➤ The Design Thinking Community’s main objective is to break
down the barriers amongst silos and organizations
➤ One of the ways it does so is by gathering professionals of all fields
➤ Another way is by helping the community through community partners
➤ Another is through collaboration with sister organizations
➤ Benefits of Sister Organizations Collaboration
DT Community Sister Organization
Learn new Skills
Recruitment (Possibility for
joint-program memberships)
Establish ties with other
industries & complementary
areas of knowledge
Fulfill educational mandate
Knowledge exchange & transfer between both organizations
*
* Example:
The Toastmasters
Competent Communicator Program could
easily be done with a focus on preparing
presentations for the DT Community
Similarly, the Rotaract Club could join
the group for a semester as part of their
vocational training & community service
program.