Inspiration for Innovation
MBA level | 6-week course | English-taught
Date: to be announced
Study overview
Curriculum
We start the course by problematising traditional approaches to organisational development while offering the complexity perspective as an alternative to the macro, meso and micro perspectives. We explore topics such as co-creation, collective creativity, design thinking, systems thinking, complex thinking, and strategic and entrepreneurial thinking within a business and organisational contexts.
Complex adaptive systems and complexity thinking play a central role to open up another academic perspective on reality. Through the perspective of complexity, there is another dynamic view on change and innovation in human systems which we have developed in the design methodology of Imagineering: designing for imaginative emergence in human ecologies of value creation.
Every Monday, the day is divided into lectures and workshops with different lecturers and professionals from the field of innovation and change. The topics are:
- Week 1: General introduction to Complexity and Imagineering principles explained
- Week 2: Philosophy of Imagineering. Being an Imagineering: a meta-perspective and from Goods-Dominant Logic to Service-Dominant Logic
- Week 3: Appreciative Inquiry and Resounding: an alternative approach to organisational change
- Week 4: World 2.0 and Design and Complexity and Systems Thinking
- Week 5: Study week and preparation for final presentation and Q&A
- Week 6: Final presentation and Q&A session
What you will learn
After this course, you:
- Better understand the paradigm shift in society and are able to analyse new thinking and practices in business.
- Apply system thinking and design thinking in coping with complex management issues in practice.
- Make use of principles of service design and experience design in practice.
- Are able to translate insights into innovation and wicked problems to a strategic situation of value creation in an industry and an organisation.
Study load & coaching
The lectures of this six-week course are one day per week, where you will spend eight hours in class every day. The total study load is eight ECTS credits. With one ECTS credit being equivalent to 28 hours of study, this means that the programme has a study load of approximately 37 hours per week.
The students will be coached from day one and they will be supervised in the various tasks on a weekly basis.
Study method
As co-creation is essential in new enterprise logic, it is also central to our way of working in this course: students are not only responsible for their own development and learning but they realise that their own development is essentially interdependent with the development of their fellow students. During the course students are expected to already behave as Imagineers: as appreciative designers for co-creation, leading towards the most wanted evolution of the total group or organisation by focusing on the micro processes while keeping an eye on the macro direction.
Practical information
Date
A six-week course, date to be announced. You will be expected at school on Mondays from 9.00 to 17.00 hrs. There are optional presence hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Location
Our beautiful green campus is situated at Mgr. Hopmansstraat in Breda. Courses are in the Ocean Building.
Costs
The costs for this microcredential are 2,500 euro.
Edubadge
By the end of the course, students must pass an assessment. The assessment consists of an individual presentation of their personal understanding of Imagineering and an oral conversation / exam containing questions that cover the whole theory of the course.
If you finish this course successfully, you will receive an Edubadge, a recognised digital certificate. This microcredential will be provided at NLQF level 7.
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