Master in Strategic Design
The Specializing Master in Strategic Design at POLI.design – Milan (Italy) combines for learning purposes the methodologies of a classic MBA with those typical of a design school oriented towards innovation.
Duration
15 months
Starting Date
October
Tuition Fee
€ 15,500
Location
Milano, Italy
About the programme
Strategic Design is a design activity that concerns the Product Service System, i.e. the integrated body of products, services and communication strategies that either an actor or a network of actors (companies, institutions, non profit organizations, etc.) generate and develop to to create value. It is often claimed that technological innovation, cultural and economical globalization, and the transition to environmental sustainability generate problems and opportunities.
It is also repeatedly stated that the possibility to avoid the former and to exploit the latter requires the development of three core skills: visioning, sensing innovation, creating solutions embedded in new business models. It calls for the ability to design products and services whose success today anticipates what will be, or may have to be, the norm of tomorrow.
The social demand for a new generation of products and services, coherent with current socio-cultural transformations, and their sustainable development becomes an opportunity for companies able to operate in the context of this new design mindset. This unique meeting of design and company strategy: strategic design.
Career
The placement identifies two main macro-professional profiles: “innovation and design specialists” (marketing directors, R&D managers, industrial designers and product engineers, services and multimedia solutions designers) and “integrators of innovative and design processes” (design managers, design directors, project managers, product managers, retail managers, brand managers, consultants for product-system innovation).
Courses Included
- Strategic design
- Service design
- Design tools
- Product service system design
- Design culture
- Strategic and operative marketing
- Project management