Design

Begin your program with an immersion experience. This is where you’ll first practice essential business skills to prepare for the program and assess your readiness on commonly used concepts and tools for industry and career preparation. You’ll begin to develop communication and teamwork skills, reflect on your personal journey, and build a strong foundation for your ongoing success.

In modern organisations most of the work is done in teams and so the ability to work with others is fundamental in business. The Teamwork & Collaboration course will lay the foundations for effective teamwork by understanding yourself – your behavioural style and mindset. The course will then focus on how to collaborate with others in a variety of contexts. You will develop a broad repertoire of tools to collaborate and negotiate across cultural and generational boundaries in a range of situations.

Organizations can be conceptualized as a series of interlinked business processes. This course will explore designing, assessing, and improving business processes in product and service organizations.

Successful businesses compare past business performance with newly acquired information to visualize industry trends and make decisions. Using data analysis helps companies predict industry and market trends and adapt accordingly. This course will help students understand and apply different business metrics and use quantitative and qualitative analyses to provide specific recommendations to their businesses and clients.

The business environment is transforming from one of scale, predictability, and rigidity to one of speed, agility, and fluidity. And so business management approaches need to change accordingly. Some of the most successful companies have integrated design thinking into a culture where creativity and drive are transformed into implementation and delivery. You’ll apply holistic design thinking methodology to 21st century business challenges.

As a business professional, you'll need to be able to interpret and analyze financial reports, access capital to grow businesses, and navigate financial markets and institutions. Gain the basic financial acumen that will enable you to carry out financial analysis and management of a company.

Put all your newly acquired knowledge and skills directly into practice at the end of each block through a practical and relevant business challenge. Teams will draw on the content and themes of previous courses in each block to complete challenges involving simulations, executive pitch presentations, innovation hackathons, real company challenges, designing new business models, etc.