Foster an environment that values and nurtures creativity. Investigate frameworks and approaches, learn how to use tools, and develop the skills to ideate, prototype and test new products and services – or modify and enhance existing products and services.
What you’ll learn
In this stackable microcredential, you’ll:
- Describe a range of strategic and ideation frameworks in the context of innovation
- Apply design thinking methods to propose human-centred approaches to problem solving
- Evaluate the merits of different ideation strategies within the context of organisational innovation.
Job Outcomes
- Identify and articulate ideas and potential solutions using various ideation processes and frameworks.
- Apply models and tools, such as Mintzberg’s Crafting Strategy and PESTLE Analysis, for creativity and rigour when developing new ideas.
- Analyse and select approaches to prototyping and testing solutions for new or enhanced products and services.
- Make informed decisions about how to ideate for innovation.
How you’re assessed
Write a 2500-word wicked problem analysis report and recommendation that illustrates connections between ideation and problem framing, using the different tools and insights gained from the course
Co-designed with industry
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University; Cathryn Nolan, Senior Knowledge Lawyer at Hall & Willcox; and Mark Cameron, CEO of W3. Digital. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Stackable or standalone
This microcredential can be completed to receive a standalone credential or stacked together with related microcredentials to build towards a full postgraduate Deakin degree later.
