Overordnede kursusmål
With the course, we aim to prepare future designers and engineering
for the way design and development practice interacts with the
organization at large. We introduce students to a number of
relevant models, theories and methods that organizations use to
structure and manage their development and innovation efforts,
particularly in the 'Fuzzy Front End' of Innovation. More
specifically, we focus on a number of modern approaches and methods
- such as agile development and scrum and user experience design -
that manufacturing companies are taking up in order to drive their
innovation efforts and overall competitiveness and that are shaping
the future of design practice. Furthermore, we aim to equip
students with the capability to link and use theoretical models and
methods in the reality of design practice, a.o. by applying the
theory in a case study for an organization. Students will be able
to position themselves as designers or engineers in the context of
an organization and articulate their added value and ways of
working.
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Analyse and discuss drivers and constraints imposed on design
and innovation processes in organizations
- Understand modern models and methods of design innovation and
how they are used to increase competitiveness and customer
value
- Formulate research questions related to the course topics that
point to how they might be further researched
- Use models of organizational structure to analyze a company’s
characteristics and dynamics through performing a case study
- Report research work in the form of an academic report
- Position your role, ways of working and value as a designer in
relation to an organization and its business objectives.
- Discuss and use an agile development model in the context of
Product Development
- Discuss and use a User Experience model in the context of
innovation
Kursusindhold
The course presents key design and innovation approaches that
product developers can use to involve and interact with
professionals in the organizational context, including the dilemmas
organizations are facing in their management of these processes. It
particularly focuses on the interface between organizational
structure/behaviour and product development practices. Design and
Innovation is seen as embedded in organizational processes and
linked to business strategies. This include the following themes:
- Organizational models that are used to describe organizational
structure and behaviour and their relation to development projects
- Change in the organizational landscape and its influence on the
way that organizations structure themselves and their innovation
efforts.
- Modern approaches and methods that organizations are taking up to
enhance their competitiveness and capability to create value for
customers.
- Reflecting on the role, limitations and value of the course
material in the reality of design and innovation practice
Bemærkninger
Kurset er obligatorisk for studerende på "Design og
Innovation", som derfor har fortrinsret hertil.
Sidst opdateret
05. maj, 2020