This subject requires on campus attendance. Refer to Additional Requirements for more information.
Design Thinking for Business (Executive)
PostgraduateRMI-BUSM45212020
Course information for 2020 intake
Look at local and international business issues and develop ethical solutions. Discover how design thinking manifests in organisational contexts. Reposition your understanding of design thinking as you tackle this foundational Executive MBA subject.
Enrolments for this course are closed, but you may have other options to start studying now. Book a consultation to learn more.
- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Design Thinking for Business (Executive)
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject you will be able to:
- Analyse and discuss design thinking, its manifestations and implications across organisational contexts
- Differentiate between various contemporary methods to identify opportunities and solve problems
- Create and communicate end-user driven solutions to business problems or opportunities utilising design thinking
- Demonstrate creative, critical and ethical thinking through developing and recommending solutions to business problems and opportunities that benefit relevant stakeholders
- Evaluate potential outcomes of design thinking in view of better decision making, implementation and sustainability of solutions.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this unit will be provided in your study materials.
This subject is designed to enable you to demonstrate a globally applicable understanding of design thinking and leverage designerly, work-ready skills in business contexts. The ability to think and act with a designerly perspective is a critical success factor for firms. For this purpose, the subject will enhance your capability to understand and manage the principles, tools and implications of design thinking for business. Through a mix of academic and practical work, you will learn what design thinking, with its holistic focus on human experiences, means for business and its consequences for organisational design and customer experience design. You will be challenged to creatively and critically reflect on business problems and opportunities applying a design thinking approach, and thereby explore, evaluate and even critique the design thinking solutions of others.
Design thinking will help you empathise with and then connect externally with internal business contexts and stakeholders. In doing so, you learn to leverage design thinking’s power in improving and innovating business and life conditions. Going beyond the innovation process, this subject takes a particularly strategic perspective on design thinking so as to help organisations capitalise on the benefits of designerly sense-making, decision-making and action-taking for sustainable and socially responsible business success.
This subject requires on-campus attendance in Melbourne.
Session 1:
- Intensive:Friday 20 March–Monday 23 March
Session 2:
- Intensive:TBC
- Industry Partner Presentation (40%)
- Industry Report (30%)
- Reflection Paper (30%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
One of Australia's largest dual-sector institutes, offering both TAFE and higher education, RMIT University proudly delivers work-related education and practical research relevant to current business and community needs. More than 96,000 students study with RMIT, and many of their degrees are available through Open Universities Australia.
Learn more about RMIT University.
Explore RMIT courses.
- QS Ranking 2024:
- 11
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 16
Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
Do not enrol in this subject if you have completed OMBA600.
Additional requirements
- Attendance requirements - Attendance for the 4-day intensive is compulsory, plus another 1-day presentation.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.