The MBA Certificate in Design and Innovation Management Program is a series of four graduate-level business courses addressing specific areas of design/business integration. The introductory course, KDES 650, is the prerequisite to the other courses, which should be taken in sequence.
KDES 650 Design and Innovation Process Management
The concept of Design and Innovation Process Management is developed through the interrelationships between the organizational systems of learning, finance, process, and customer systems and those of research, analysis, synthesis, and implementation as related to product/ problem formulation. This information will be prefaced with an introduction to the concepts of design thinking, strategic design value, and interdisciplinary collaboration and their direct effect on successful innovative business practices. The course will involve case study investigation and col- laborative interaction to explore parameters of the design and innovation process and will require an integrated comprehensive project.
Make it work:
Learn how innovation, creativity, design, and problem-solving processes play into a design-centered corporate culture.
KDES 651 Design Communication Management
The concept of Design Communication Management is developed by examining communication systems within design and innovation processes that involve research, analysis, synthesis, and implementation as related to product/problem formulation and their interrelationships with the organizational systems of organizational learning, financial, process, and customer systems. The course will involve case study investigation and collaborative interaction to explore parameters and challenges of design communication and will require an integrated comprehensive project.
Make it work:
Learn to speak the language of design and business. You'll be able to research user needs, see solutions, and identify how a collaborative culture brings innovation.
KDES 750 Sustainable Design and Systems Management
The concepts of Sustainable Design and Sustainable Systems are developed through examining their interrelationships with the organizational systems of organizational learning, financial, process, and customer systems. Sustainable organizations and product development systems and processes involving research, analysis, synthesis, and implementation will be fully explored. The course will involve collaborative interaction in the case study investigation of the management of sustainable systems/business practices and sustainable design development. An integrated comprehensive project will be required.
Make it work:
Learn about sustainable design and help your business foster an innovative organizational culture.
KDES 751 Leadership By Design
The concept of Leadership by Design is developed through exploring those elements common to leaders and organizations in which innovation success is achieved through structuring the interrelationships between design process, design communications, consumer-centric design thinking, and organizational systems and using research, analysis, synthesis, and implementation to foster a creative culture throughout the organization. The course will involve case studies and collaborative interaction to explore parameters of design-centered leadership and will require an integrated comprehensive project.
Make it work:
Learn ways to measure innovation's effect on your business's bottom line and lead by putting design at the center of your organization. Gain a competitive advantage by blending business and design thinking.
