Design Management

Objectives:

Enable Design, Marketing, Engineering and Business Management professionals to overcome disciplinary boundaries in order to grow into key drivers of organizational success.
Develop into leaders capable of combining creativity, managerial skills and entrepreneurial mindsets within the constraints of Business realities.
Assist Designers and non-Designers in understanding how design management can contribute to the creation of sustainable value within the Business environment.
Help Designers become Design Managers, Design Managers become Design Leaders and Design Leaders become innovation leaders of the future.
Provide students with Design and Business Management tools that will enable them to become powerful key contributors in the Value Creation Chain, within the corporate environment or as independent professionals.
Develop proficiency in using the tools provided. Students will be able to identify appropriate use of these tools to balance academic and practical knowledge, efficiency in communication and ability to evaluate necessary trade-offs when faced with real business challenges.
Expand the student’s roles and capabilities in working with innovation teams.
Encourage critical thinking to allow students to be active citizens of our global society

The culmination of the course is the presentation of your personal research project as your master's thesis, the best way to showcase the skills, knowledge and analytical abilities you’ve acquired.

To keep up to speed with the latest trends in the market, the course includes two study trips, giving you first-hand experience of the different European markets and professional contexts you’ll be working in. The Master in Design Management is for people looking for insight into how to manage innovation, how to manage people, and make the best use of design tools. Design students who want to learn and use creative business methods and tools in multidisciplinary teams will find the course both interesting and useful. If you’re already established in the business world and want to learn how to apply design methods and tools in business environments, this is the course for you. The master's degree is also open to people with a background in design, management and theoretical fields. A specialisation for designers from any discipline (graphic design, product design and interior design), architects, management, business, marketing and communication professionals who want to add another feather to their professional cap.