Postgraduate Course: Innovation Management and Design Thinking (EMBA) (CMSE11270)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Common Courses (Management School) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course examines how managers and leaders can deal with ongoing innovation. The course explores the core processes underlying innovation and the enablers and blockages to effective management of this process. This ranges from incremental (¿do what we do but better¿) innovation through to more radical, ¿do different¿ innovation. A key aim is for students to understand the strategic as well as operational issues that affect the innovation process. The course will also explore the role which design thinking plays in innovation. Design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes. The theory suggests that If you approach problems in the same way that designers approach design, you can find more effective solutions. Design thinking involves applying the methodologies and approaches of design to business and social problems - experimenting, prototyping, testing, and failing quickly in order to learn from mistakes and eventually succeed. Design thinking demands that we shift from an organisational to a human perspective and from an individual to a collaborative, interdisciplinary perspective. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Block 5 (sem 2), Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
27/04/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 24,
Summative Assessment Hours 26,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
48 )
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
¿ The significance of innovation and how it links to wider strategic and operational issues within the firm.
¿ How process innovations alter the ways of transforming inputs into products/services for customers and end-users.
¿ How firms can develop new products and services to differentiate from competitors.
¿ How firm size, technological complexity and environmental uncertainty influence innovation processes.
¿ Dimensions of responsible innovation.
¿ Understand design as an action discipline and be familiar with design concepts and tools.
Cognitive and Subject Specific Skills:
¿ Diagnose barriers to innovation in a company setting.
¿ Apply a range of innovation and design tools to generate product, process, positional or paradigm improvements.
¿ Ability to frame and tackle complex challenges using design thinking skills.
¿ Recommend appropriate strategies for the development and commercialisation of innovations.
Transferable Skills:
¿ Further build written and oral communication skills, and independent study and research skills.
¿ Ability to work effectively in collaboration with others with different backgrounds, experiences and skills. |
Assessment Information
Group Assignment - 50%
Individual Assignment - 50% |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Raluca Bunduchi
Tel: (0131 6)51 5544
Email: Raluca.Bunduchi@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kate Ainsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
Email: Kate.Ainsworth@ed.ac.uk |
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