After a successful course, the student shall:

- show familiarity with concepts within leadership and management
- demonstrate comprehension of different strategic design concepts

- demonstrate the ability to identify and formulate (digital) innovation potentials
- demonstrate skills of planning and creating a business pitch
- demonstrate skills of handling group diversity and building functional teams
- demonstrate skills of applying design thinking methodologies

- demonstrate the ability to critically analyse and evaluate different future scenarios and their impact on people, brands, and services
- demonstrate the ability to critically analyse leadership practices to suggest how they can be further developed or optimized

In this course students will learn how to take on a leadership role, drive life-centered innovation, and develop competitive advantages using strategic design methodologies, taking into account design and management skills.

The course includes the following elements:
- Design Thinking
- Future casting
- Social Innovation
- Strategic Management
- Storytelling and pitching
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship and Start-ups
- Business Design

Lectures and seminars.

Undervisningen bedrivs på engelska.

The applicant must hold the minimum of a bachelor’s degree (i.e., the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits at an accredited university) with at least 90 credits in Informatics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent. Proof of English proficiency is required.

Kursen bedöms med betygen 5, 4, 3 eller Underkänd.

Examinationsmoment	Omfattning	Betyg
Presentation1	3,5 hp	5/4/3/U
Seminarium	4 hp	U/G

¹ Bestämmer kursens slutbetyg vilket utfärdas först när samtliga moment godkänts.

The literature list for the course will be provided eight weeks before the course starts.