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Master

Seminar - Digital Innovation for sustainable and social impact

Study Area:
  		 Master / Business C: Digitalization & Entrepreneurship
Module: Digitale Transformation III - Digital Innovation
Course: Digital Innovation for sustainable and social impact
Lecturer: Manuel Wiesche, Kay Hönemann, Dana Hofmann, Philipp Brandt
Scope / Credits: 4 SWS / 7,5 Credits
Type of Course: Seminar
Date and Place: TBA
Language: The course language will be decided based on the participating students.
Application: Online application via the faculty system from 07.07.2025
In addition to your online application, please send your CV, grade transcript, and optional a motivation letters to the secretariat (dt.wiwitu-dortmundde), indicating your previous experience with digital transformation topics and empirical research methods.

Seminar description

In this course, students will learn how technology-driven digital innovations work in real business contexts. As part of the course, students will learn about and apply the design thinking approach. First, the needs are run through the initial phases of understanding, observing and synthesizing the challenges. This is followed by problem solving, which includes brainstorming, designing a prototype and testing its suitability as a solution.
The topics are worked on in groups, with each group working on a problem set by the practice partners. Each group will be assigned to a partner company, which will provide the challenge as the project-guiding question and the context as the framework for the question. The students will work closely with the company contacts and present the results and solutions at the end of the course. 
 

Selected literature

  • Uebernickel, F., Brenner, W., Pukall, B., Naef, T., & Schindlholzer, B. (2015). Design Thinking: Das Handbuch. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch.
  • Brown, Tim (2008) “Design Thinking” in Harvard Business Review
  • Wiesche, M., Uebernickel, F., Byler, E., Garcia-Cifuentes, J. P., Kelly, K., Suzuki, S., Vignoli, M., Leifer, L., Lang, M., et al (2018) “Teaching Innovation in Interdisciplinary Environments: Toward a Design Thinking Syllabus,” in Proceedings of the AIS SIGED, San Francisco, CA, USA
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