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Online Microcredential in Business & Management
Innovation and Ideation
Evaluate and select approaches to ideation and innovation in your organisation.
Duration
6 weeksCost
$809
Move your business ideas forward
Foster an environment that values and nurtures creativity. Investigate frameworks and approaches, learn how to use tools, and develop the skills to ideate, prototype and test new products and services – or modify and enhance existing products and services.
What you’ll learn
In this stackable microcredential, you’ll:
- Describe a range of strategic and ideation frameworks in the context of innovation
- Apply design thinking methods to propose human-centred approaches to problem solving
- Evaluate the merits of different ideation strategies within the context of organisational innovation.
Job Outcomes
- Identify and articulate ideas and potential solutions using various ideation processes and frameworks.
- Apply models and tools, such as Mintzberg’s Crafting Strategy and PESTLE Analysis, for creativity and rigour when developing new ideas.
- Analyse and select approaches to prototyping and testing solutions for new or enhanced products and services.
- Make informed decisions about how to ideate for innovation.
How you’re assessed
Write a 2500-word wicked problem analysis report and recommendation that illustrates connections between ideation and problem framing, using the different tools and insights gained from the course
Co-designed with industry
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University; Cathryn Nolan, Senior Knowledge Lawyer at Hall & Willcox; and Mark Cameron, CEO of W3. Digital. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Stackable or standalone
This microcredential can be completed to receive a standalone credential or stacked together with related microcredentials to build towards a full postgraduate Deakin degree later.
What skills will you learn?
- Change management
- Communicating vision
- Written and verbal communication
- Ideation (identify and articulate solutions)
- Problem framing and definitions
- Planning
- Apply design thinking tools
- Business model innovation
What you will achieve
By the end of the microcredential, you’ll be able to...
- describe a range of strategic and ideation frameworks in the context of innovation
- apply design thinking methods to propose human-centred approaches to problem solving
- evaluate the merits of different ideation strategies within the context of organisational innovation
Are you eligible for this microcredential?
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
This microcredential is available ‘on demand’, as such it is open in 6 week learning periods. Learners can commence at any time and complete in a minimum 6 weeks, or maximum 6 month period. The opportunity to join live sessions and assessment windows are provided regularly to ensure all learners receive the same level of support.
Is this microcredential right for you?
This microcredential is for managers or leaders in senior positions dealing with major change and/or innovation in an organisation.
It can be stacked together with related microcredentials to build towards full postgraduate Deakin degrees:
- Graduate Certificate of Business Administration
- Master of Business Administration
Complete a maximum of four stackable microcredentials (earning 2 Deakin credit points) for the Master of Business Administration and two courses (earning 1 Deakin credit point) for the Graduate Certificate.
Syllabus
What happens before, during, and after your microcredential
Before learning
You will have access to the welcome area to introduce yourself and familiarise yourself with the microcredential structure.
Course
From 29 Nov 2021
Innovation and Ideation
Evaluate and select approaches to ideation and innovation in your organisation.
6 weeks
10 hours per week
After learning
Upon successful completion, you will receive a statement of completion from FutureLearn and a digital certificate from Deakin University.
What you will receive
0.5 Deakin Credit Points at Postgraduate level from Deakin University
You’ll receive a digital Credly badge worth 0.5 postgraduate level credits. With these credits, you can build towards a degree from Deakin University.
Find out how credits work and where you can use them in our FAQs.
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Additional benefits
Complete your course within 6 weeks, including the assessment, or take extra time and use the regular assessment submission windows to complete within 20–26 weeks of your enrolment.
What is a microcredential?
Microcredentials are designed to upskill you for work in rapidly-growing industries, without the time and cost commitment of a full degree. Your microcredential can stand alone as an independent credential, and some also offer academic credit to use towards a degree.
Learn online with expert instructors
Complete online courses led by experts over multiple weeks with a dedicated group of professionals.
Complete project-based assessments
Test your understanding with online tutor-marked assessments and exercises.
Earn a professional credential
Finish your learning and pass your assessments to gain an accredited credential.
Advance further in your career
Use your microcredential as evidence of your specialised skills and progress further in your industry.
Career-focused learning by Deakin University
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
Established
1974Location
Melbourne, AustraliaWorld ranking
Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021
Delivered by experts
Dr Cuc Nguyen is a lecturer in Marketing and Management disciplines at Deakin University since 2011. She has also started up and operated several small businesses, both overseas and in Melbourne.
Mark Cameron is the CEO of W3.Digital, and an expert in complex digital transformation strategy and delivery. Mark is a member and contributor to the Forbes Technology Council.
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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When would you like to start?
We aim to run our microcredentials every few months. Join on the date that suits you or register to hear about future runs and updates.
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FAQ
We can accept payments made by card (Visa, Mastercard and American Express) or PayPal via our online system.
You will have 14 days from the day the course starts to apply for a refund. If this Microcredential has any non-refundable costs they will be stated in the ‘Overview’ section above. You can find more information in our cancellation and refund policy.
Microcredentials are designed to fit around your life and timezone.
There may be live events as part of your studies, but these will be recorded and can be watched afterwards if you aren’t online for the live broadcast.
No, microcredentials are designed to be taken anywhere in the world. You won’t need the right to study in the country where the university offering the microcredential is based.
This microcredential can be stacked together with related Deakin stackable short courses (micro-credentials):
- Foundations of Innovation
- Innovation and Organisational Change
- Innovation and Leadership
- Design Thinking
- Managing your Message
- Beyond Compliance Being Board Savvy
- Digital Transformation Leadership
- Project Management
- Work and Wellbeing
- Change Tools
to build towards full postgraduate Deakin degrees:
- Graduate Certificate of Business Administration
- Master of Business Administration.
Subject to successful completion of microcredentials and meeting Deakin’s award course admission and selection requirements, including English language proficiency requirements.
Complete a maximum of four stackable microcredentials (earning 2 Deakin credit points) for the Master of Business Administration and two courses (earning 1 Deakin credit point) for the Graduate Certificate.
This microcredential has been developed by Deakin University at an AQF9 (Masters level) standard and provides Credit into a range of degrees.
As there is no standard for credit in Australia, at Deakin University this credential equates to half a point of academic credit, equal to half a unit of postgraduate study.
Want to know more? Read the microcredential FAQs, or contact us.