Deep Dive into Organisations

This is an SPD programme course.

In this course students will work with theories and practical cases that will give them advanced knowledge about organisations and their surrounding e.g. stakeholder network ecosystem, how they innovate, and the way in which strategic designers can interact with and add value to them. The first part of the course will focus on different organisational theories and why different kinds of organisations exist and what are their innovation value drivers that can influence and be influenced by strategic designers. Organisational capabilities such as innovation portfolio, differentiation from competition, business model, and sustainability practices will be covered. The 2^nd part of the course will take a more systemic perspective and will look at organisations as parts of ecosystems. Students will learn how organisations connect, relate and compete in the context of socio-technical and/or SDG-driven transitions, as well as how strategic design capabilities can play a role in these transitions (organisational transformations that occur within them).