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This MA Design Management course offers a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from business, technology, social enterprises and new venture creation. It offers practical research and work-based projects in all areas shaping the creative economy and the fourth industrial revolution – including the role of creative interventions in technology-enabled business transformation, change management and design leadership.

Ravensbourne has an established international reputation for innovation at the intersection of design and business development. Our portfolio of MSc, MBA and MA programmes encourages an interplay between technology, design, creativity and wider social and economic issues.

The design management programme has been designed in a way that is highly relevant to the leadership and organisational challenges of the creative industries and the technology sectors. The course looks at the creative skills and competences needed to identify and anticipate business change and transform business models so that they are interactive, anticipatory and future focused.

The course invites postgraduate learners to be part of that journey, empowering them to draw on and learn from innovative design thinking and how this can be applied to the creation of new business models and business development.

Key study topics

• Emergence and discovery of opportunities
• Organisation and growth of the venture
• The psychological characteristics of the entrepreneur
• System, strategies and structure to transform businesses, products and services
• New cognitive technologies and how to redesign roles/projects to incorporate new technology solutions
• Creative-skills identifying user needs, idea-generation, conceptualisation and leadership development
• Market research and brand innovation
• Work-based learning research project.

These are the types of design management jobs you could potentially move into after graduation:

• Design manager
• Business start-up entrepreneur
• Organisational development
• Brand strategist
• Market insights research
• Senior manager
• Marketing director
• Social enterprise
• Behavioral economics
• Forecasting and trend-casting.