This subject requires on campus attendance. Refer to Additional Requirements for more information.
Design Thinking for Business (Executive)
PostgraduateRMI-BUSM45212022
Course information for 2022 intake
Look at local and international business issues and develop ethical solutions. Discover how design thinking manifests in organisational contexts. Reposition your understanding of design thinking as you tackle this foundational Executive MBA subject.
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- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Design Thinking for Business (Executive)
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject you will be able to:
- Analyse and discuss design thinking, its manifestations and implications across organisational contexts
- Differentiate between various contemporary methods to identify opportunities and solve problems
- Create and communicate end-user driven solutions to business problems or opportunities utilising design thinking
- Demonstrate creative, critical and ethical thinking through developing and recommending solutions to business problems and opportunities that benefit relevant stakeholders
- Evaluate potential outcomes of design thinking in view of better decision making, implementation and sustainability of solutions.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this unit will be provided in your study materials.
This is a foundation course within the MBA Executive program. In this course, we operationalise the concept of design thinking in international and local business, and examine how the tools of business design can be employed across the disciplines and functions covered in this program.
Drawing on your experience as a manager, this course will provide opportunities to consider global business problems or opportunities, and those in your own industry and professional context. Adopting design thinking methodology and tools, you will lead teams to analyse, define and create sustainable and ethical solutions to contemporary business issues.
Please note, this course is delivered in intensive mode.
- Assessment Task 1: (Linked CLOs: 1, 2) (30%)
- Assessment Task 2: (Linked CLOs: 3, 4) (30%)
- Assessment Task 3: (Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
Do not enrol in this subject if you have completed OMBA600.
Additional requirements
- Attendance requirements - Attendance for the 4-day intensive is compulsory, plus another 1-day presentation.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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