Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Design Thinking for Business (Executive)

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM4519	City Campus	Postgraduate	660H Law	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2016, Sem 2 2016, Sem 1 2017, Sem 2 2017, Sem 1 2018, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 2 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 1 2025
BUSM4520	RMIT University Vietnam	Postgraduate	660H Law	Face-to-Face	Viet1 2016, Viet1 2017, Viet3 2017, Viet2 2018, Viet3 2018, Viet3 2019
BUSM4521	Open Learning Australia	Non Award	660H Law	Distance / Correspondence	OUAS1PG19, OUAS1PG20, OUAS2PG20, OUAS1PG21, OUAS2PG21, OUAS1PG22

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM4759	Mandarin Oriental Hotel HK	Postgraduate	660H Law	Face-to-Face	PGRDFlex23 (MOHG)

Course Coordinator: March L To

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 (3) 99254211

Course Coordinator Email: march.l.to@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: City Campus

Course Coordinator Availability: Please check with the course coordinator

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.

Course Description

This is a foundation course within the MBA Executive program. In this course, we magnify the role of design thinking in fostering team creativity within the dynamic context of international and local business. We will dive into the research-based principles and practical applications of design thinking across disciplines, with a special focus on collective creativity and innovation. Leveraging your managerial experience, this course will invite you to explore the business problems and/or opportunities in industrial and professional contexts. Embrace research-based principles and methodologies of design thinking not only as individual problem-solving tools but also as catalysts for team creativity. Learn how to lead team members effectively in co-designing and generating novel and practical solutions that bring exceptional value to users. Get ready to inspire and guide your teams towards generating ideas, solutions, and products that create sustainable and ethical solutions to contemporary business issues.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Examine and discuss design thinking, exploring its manifestations and implications within organisational contexts.

2.Differentiate between contemporary methods, emphasising their role in fostering teamwork to identify opportunities and solve problems collaboratively and creatively.

3. Create and communicate end-user-driven solutions to business problems or opportunities, employing design thinking principles and encouraging diversity and team creativity throughout the process.

4.Demonstrate creative, critical and ethical thinking by collaboratively developing and recommending solutions to business problems and opportunities that benefit relevant stakeholders.

5. Evaluate potential outcomes of design thinking in view of better innovative problem-solving, decision making, implementation and sustainability of solutions.

Overview of Learning Activities

Learning activities include lectures, seminars and group activities. This course is delivered in intensive mode.
In this course you will be encouraged to be an active learner. Your learning will be supported through various in-class and online activities comprising individual and group work. These may include quizzes; assignments; prescribed readings; sourcing, researching and analysing specific information; solving problems; conducting presentations; producing written work and collaborating with peers on set tasks or projects.
 

Overview of Learning Resources

From 2018, Canvas is RMIT University's Learning Management System. Canvas is a flexible online system which will provide you with an engaging and exciting learning experience as part of your studies with us. The Canvas platform will be the primary site for you to gain access to all the resources designed to support your learning in this course. Your Canvas portal can accessed by logging into the following RMIT page: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students

Overview of Assessment

The assessment alignment list below shows the assessment tasks against the learning outcomes they develop.

Assessment Task 1: 30%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Assessment Task 2: 20%
Linked CLOs: 1

Assessment Task 3: 50%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.