Course - Innovation by Design Thinking - TMM4220
TMM4220 - Innovation by Design Thinking
About
Examination arrangement
Examination arrangement: Work
Grade: Passed/Failed
Evaluation | Weighting | Duration | Grade deviation | Examination aids |
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Arbeider | 100/100 |
Course content
This course is an immersive experience into design thinkingan empathy-based, human-centered, and rapid prototype-driven methodology for innovation. Design thinking helps to tackle challenges such as the creation of new products, technological innovation, services, business models, experiences, processes and/or systems.
The primary aim of the course is to empower students to ideate, launch, run, and successfully complete innovation projects that have a significant and meaningful impact on pioneering organizations and industries.
The course encompasses intensive sessions on need finding, empathy, observation, immersion, ethnographic research, brain-/body-storming, ideation, and rapid prototypingall in the context of tackling cutting-edge technological challenges and addressing strategic industry objectives.
For further information, see http://www.innovationbydt.org/
Learning outcome
Students of the course will be able to:
Implement the design-thinking methodology in the context of multiple industries and organizations
Expose organizational cultures to innovative ways of tackling problems
Empathize with users and customers through an ethnographic perspective
Concoct radical ideas to complex, seemingly intractable problems
Build rapid prototypes that instruct, and inspire valuable conversations among varied stakeholder groups
Test their prototypes many times and with multiple stakeholders to receive constructive feedback
Adopt a highly ambiguous, seemingly chaotic, and iterative process that eventually delivers tangible results
Learning methods and activities
We will employ the latest project- and problem-based learning pedagogies, involving real-life challenges, storytelling/storydoing, soft prototyping, and iterative methods.
With regards to the evaluation, we will focus significantly on the design-thinking process, the insights learned, and the skills developed during the educational journey. The quality and applicability of the final prototypes will not be our sole focus.
Students will be evaluated on the following graded deliverables:
Project Presentation (40%) team-based
Design-driven, Knowledge Portfolio (40%) team-based
5-Page Reflective Essay (20%) individual
Recommended previous knowledge
None.
Required previous knowledge
None.
Course materials
Announced at the beginning of the semester.
Handouts/pdf and
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All; by Tom Kelley, David Kelley
Rotman on Design: The Best on Design Thinking from Rotman Magazine; by Roger Martin, Karen Christensen
Strategic Management of Technological Innovation; by Melissa A. Schilling
No
Version: 2
Credits:
7.5 SP
Study level: Second degree level
Term no.: 1
Teaching semester: AUTUMN 2015
Language of instruction: English
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- Entrepreneurship
- Technological subjects
- Federico Lozano
Examination
Examination arrangement: Work
- Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
- Autumn ORD Arbeider 100/100
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Room Building Number of candidates
- * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
For more information regarding registration for examination and examination procedures, see "Innsida - Exams"