What I like is that people without design abilities, particularly management, can take these courses and learn a little bit more about design. What then happens is they often come away and are ready to revolutionise their stagnant business by using design (which I think is a good thing). The problem I think though is that they often come away thinking they are now designers and what I find is NEVER taught is that if they want implement design thinking then employ a designer.
I have been to a few of these courses run by academics who haven’t designed anything apart from a course based on studies about companies they have never worked for. Overall though, I think the whole design thinking thing has run its course (BOOM!).