81540 Leading Creative Innovation
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Credit points: 8 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Anti-requisite(s): 81512 Creative Practice and Methods AND 81547 Leadership in Innovation
Description
Leading innovative initiatives requires working with a wide range of different people and thinking outside-the-box together to enable ideas to flourish. In this subject, students explore how to create breakthrough opportunities and anticipate and navigate future possibilities. By doing so, students learn hands-on skills to effectively use creative practices, research methods and possibilities thinking to support their innovation journey. This subject empowers students to develop their leadership skills for co-designing innovative initiatives.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
| 1. | Examine, select, create and apply various techniques and methods for understanding, visualising, interpreting and investigating complex problems. |
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| 2. | Participate collaboratively in teams and engage with the needs of various and diverse stakeholders. |
| 3. | Test and articulate the value of different methods for exploring, understanding and addressing complex challenges in creative and useful ways. |
| 4. | Explore, ideate and communicate using a range of methods and techniques from different disciplines and professional practices. |
| 5. | Work within a professional context to design and develop ideas, strategies and practices for betterment. |
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
This subject contributes to the following course intended learning outcomes:
Research and analyse problem situations or contexts from multiple disciplinary or personal perspectives to develop a deep understanding of the needs, interests and values of multiple stakeholders. (CILO 2.2)
Integrate findings from research and problem / stakeholder / data analysis in creative and useful ways to generate a proposal. (CILO 2.3)
Critically examine, test, appreciate and articulate the speculative or actual value of outcomes for different stakeholders, whether at a societal, organizational, community or individual level. (CILO 2.4)
Design, develop and apply appropriate team-based decision making frameworks and participate collaboratively in teams according to proposed intentions. (CILO 3.2)
Use a range of appropriate data, tools, techniques, technologies and methods creatively and critically in multi-disciplinary teams to discover, investigate, design, produce and communicate ideas or artefacts. (CILO 3.3)
Design and develop ideas, strategies and practices for betterment that engage with and respond respectfully, generatively and analytically to different ways of knowing across community and cultural contexts. (CILO 4.2)
Teaching and learning strategies
This subject will consist of six full days on campus scheduled over 3 weeks, supplemented by online resources and activities.
Learning will take place in a collaborative, experiential, studio-based environment. Students will work with academics and professionals across a range of disciplines and undertake a project set in a real life context to explore the use of technology and methods in creative practice.
Content (topics)
- Creative practices and methods
- Systems innovation
- Team-based decision making
- Innovation leadership
- Innovation adoption and diffusion
- Agency in innovation systems
- Visualisation and storytelling
- Influencing outcomes
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Your Leadership Journey
| Type: | Report |
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| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 30% |
| Length: | 1,800 words |
Assessment task 2: Communicating value
| Type: | Demonstration |
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| Groupwork: | Group, group assessed |
| Weight: | 30% |
| Length: | 5-minute presentation |
Assessment task 3: Leading Innovation and Creating Opportunities for Impact
| Type: | Report |
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| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 40% |
| Length: | Report with an approximate length of 1,800 words. |
Minimum requirements
Students must attempt each assessment task in order to pass this subject.
Required texts
No required texts. Readings and other resources will be provided online.