Content + Structure
Portrait
Transformative and rewarding. This course gives you the tools and skills for driving and shaping change. All the methods you will meet in this programme represent the cutting edge of change and innovation management. Following this course, you will learn how to create useful, feasible and viable eco-systems.
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Usefulness ("doing the right thing"): What are the requirements from the stakeholders' point of view? How do they react to possible solutions?
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Feasibility ("doing it right"): What is possible and what are possible synergies with partners? How can a solution be optimally developed?
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Viability ("doing it sustainably"): What is the business model? Can the solution survive in its economic, social and ecological environment?
Today, agile organisations are considered the optimal structure to shape change and to keep up with the pace of the markets. Unlike traditional line organisations with their often over detailed processes and stringent hierarchies, agile organisations adapt to new requirements more easily.
Course objectives
Professional skills
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You can independently identify an open problem and propose an optimal procedural model following the three-step approach: Where are we? Where do we want to go? How do we get there?
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You can draw on knowledge from a range of disciplines to understand a situation.
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You can identify requirements in dialogue with a client and other stakeholders.
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You know the basics of creative solution development.
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You know the essential aspects of the design process and are able to independently facilitate such process.
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You can coordinate a creative group process successfully.
Methodological skills
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You are familiar with various methods from the world of innovation and change management, agile solution development and entrepreneurial thinking.
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You are familiar with tools for designing products, services and business models.
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You use can the instruments you have learned appropriately and correctly.
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You can adapt the instruments you have learned to fit your organisation’s needs.
Social skills
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You will improve your ability to give feedback in an appreciative, respectful and fair manner. We work on keeping feedback professional and considering the subjectivity of the viewpoints and perspectives (using I-messages, perception and effect).
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You are able to work towards achieving common goals and appreciate the meaning, value and context of individual and collective learning processes.
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You recognise the creative potential of groups and know how to use it in a way that it is appropriate for the task.
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You will discuss in groups to deal constructively with the suggestions of others and take joint responsibility for your collective actions allowing you to master difficult situations as a team.
Self-competence
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You will develop confidence in your ability to understand and describe a situation in its complexity.
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You will take responsibility for the planning and implementation of analysis processes.
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You will critically assess the results of your analysis and learn from your mistakes.
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You will gain confidence in your ability to develop a product or service.
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You are involved in a creative process in a constructive and goal-oriented manner.
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You can represent your own positions and develop them further in dialogue with your team members.
