International Management & Design Innovation

Graduate benefits

This programme will develop your ability to confidently apply the methods and techniques of design-led innovation practice as a means of researching, visualising, analysing, resolving and communicating project-based work to a professional audience; demonstrating the value (practical, financial or social) of design-led innovation within a specific context, or organisational environment.

You will develop the capability for confident critical, conceptual, and analytical thinking as a means of engaging with issues. You will be able to find creative and critical solutions to problems in a business context, using the skills, techniques and processes of international management and design-led innovation.

You will demonstrate a capacity for collaboration, managing cross-cultural group dynamics, effective interpersonal communication, reflective & self-directed learning, visualisation and time & project management.

This provides benefits for employers while enhancing the career prospects of our graduates and we would expect our graduates to follow entry into the following areas:

• Professional design/management consultancy environment
• Work as an independent consultant
• Start-up enterprise
• Entry level management post in MNC, SME and public sector
• Further academic study by research