Ship disruption campLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

The overall goal of this course is to improve the student's ability to create business related value, to work as enterprisers/entrepreneurs and to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries in an innovative and design thinking driven way. At the end of this course, the student should be able to:
• Apply design thinking/process driven methods to your work approach, a.o.:
o Understanding and utilizing user/customer/stakeholder needs and insights in your innovation process
o Applying idea generation, concept testing and concept development to your work process.
• Apply personal disciplinary work methods to promote your team’s joint actions.
• Demonstrate social skills to promote your team’s development.
• Demonstrate abilities to collaborate across disciplines, cultures, national backgrounds and business boundaries.
• Conduct disciplinary analysis of a real-life industrial problem and design solutions relevant for your buddy industry.
• Propose and justify the value of your innovative solutions.
• Pitch disciplinary analysis to industry stakeholders from different disciplinary backgrounds.

Content

Students are taken out of their conventional class-room environment with teacher-led learning and are instead placed in a dynamic study-, community- and business environment to be enrolled in problem-based learnings based on business briefs from different businesses. Tasks are solved in multidisciplinary teams – and supported by team facilitators. And several days of working are out in the businesses partaking.
During the first week, focus is on how to proceed from an open idea for a new solution concept, to sketching relevant concepts – and to start designing a strong solution. You base your work on user- and business insights and design thinking methods. During the week 2 you focus on selecting the best conceptual ideas, bringing them to live as a final concept, which you codevelop with a specific company and finalize to pitch for a board of specialists. Here you verify your concept’s attractiveness, feasibility and viability.
To do this, different disciplinary analyses must be conducted and, in particular, the interfaces between the different disciplines must be agreed upon and described.

Evaluation

a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
b. evaluate information sources critically.
c. work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
d. evaluate operations in customer, user and target group situations.
e.choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
f. promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.
g. apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.

Qualifications

Students must have a background in Engineering, Human Technology/Product Psychology Development, Industrial Design/Service Design, Business, Architecture, or Journalism etc. We prefer students close to last year of their BA, BBA, BSC/MSc.