This module is focused on helping students develop the mindsets, skills, habits and discipline that underpin effective learning, informed by how leading organisations develop their people. Its focus is on the behavioural aspects of learning, including the role of deliberate practice, feedback, iteration and failure in learning.  

During the module students explore key ideas, approaches and tools that drive effective learning and apply them systematically to understand and adjust their own behaviour.  

This module is focused on helping students develop the combination of engineering and business skills needed to identify and predict changes in new and existing technologies, and understand their business impact. 

It introduces students to key concept and tools from mathematics and data analytics that provide the foundations for analysing trends, modelling the evolution of technologies, and clustering and classifying applications. 

The module also examines the ecosystems of organisations involved in developing new technologies, exploring how collaboration, competition, and co-innovation within these ecosystems drive technological advancement and influence market dynamics. 

This module explores the way people think, feel and behave in a range of contexts, and the challenges and complexity of working with people as customers, colleagues and citizens. 

The module introduces students to the principles underlying the systematic investigation and analysis of human behaviour and explores key behavioural science concepts, models and frameworks. It explores the challenges of changing behaviour and practical approaches to designing systems and interventions that support behaviour change. 

The module facilitates students applying methods, theories, and approaches from behavioural science to their own lives and projects. 

The module helps students develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to analyse complex problems, identify and evaluate evidence and sources, build robust mental models of complex domains, formulate well- reasoned arguments, and consider alternative points of view. 

The module helps students understand key critical thinking principles and techniques and provides them with opportunities to practice these techniques. It explores the role of foundational skills (like curiosity, humility, empathy, creativity and kindness) in developing advanced human- centred critical thinking skills. 

This module explores the fundamental skills, methods, and mindsets of human-centred design. It provides students with an opportunity to explore design as a distinctive approach to problem solving, and its applications to the development of new products and services, and the search for solution to social issues. 

The module explores core design methods through project- based learning and incorporates real world challenges. Students experience how to prototype and test concepts, research needs, and how to synthesise insights from data to spark novel ideas. 

During this module, students engage in an extended independent project focused on the Discovery phase of innovation. They use this project to practice key skills, methods, mindsets and behaviours that provide the foundations for innovation.  

During the module, students explore a business or societal problem that they identify and select. They apply empathy- driven techniques to explore the problem from the perspective of different groups of people. And explore how ethnography, interviews, deep listening and observational techniques can help them understand people's environments, experiences, needs, desires, pain points, and preferences.  

Management’s greatest challenge is delivering results through others. Effective managers transition from focusing on their own performance to developing a team that successfully delivers.  

They recognise the importance of having the right tools to understand and influence other people, and knowing when and how to apply them. They also understand the importance of organisation culture and how it impacts business performance.  

Students develop the knowledge and skills needed to collaborate effectively and lead high-performing teams. They explore the challenges of building teams, managing projects, and working under stress by critically reflecting on their experiences of working in teams.  

This module focuses on how to generate, evaluate and refine creative ideas in a business context. It aims to improve students’ ability to think beyond conventional solutions and use divergent thinking to explore novel ideas. 

During the module, students explore how deeply engaging with key creative practices, including unlearning, problem making, observation, gathering, conceiving and connecting, can improve the volume and quality of ideas. 

They explore what different types of employer mean when they say they want employees who demonstrate "creativity" and how they assess, nurture and develop this skill in their people. 

This module focuses on how to decompose and structure complex, interconnected business problems. And how to make decisions on what parts of a problem to focus on. Students learn how to identify, frame and ask powerful questions that can improve decision-making, spark creativity and build connections with people. 

Students learn how to identify and scope the primary information they need to answer key business questions. They learn how to design and run interviews, fieldwork, action research, and other types of business experiment to collect this information. And how to analyse this information using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. 

This module explores the fundamental skills, methods, and mindsets of human-centred design. It provides students with an opportunity to explore design as a distinctive approach to problem solving, and its applications to the development of new products and services, and the search for solution to social issues. 

The module explores core design methods through project-based learning and incorporates real world challenges. Students experience how to prototype and test concepts, research needs, and how to synthesise insights from data to spark novel ideas.

Successful innovation requires practical ways to explore and validate ideas. Ways to make ideas tangible. Ways to experiment with different options and alternatives. Ways to "innovate out loud". 

During this module, students engage in an independent project to explore a business or societal problem of their choice that could be addressed by developing (or enhancing) a product or service. They use this project to practice key skills, methods, mindsets and behaviours needed to design, make and test prototypes that can help organisations make informed decisions about the features and functionality to include in products and services. 

Year 3

Developing solutions to complex, societal problems is hard. It requires engaging with diverse groups of people and inspiring them to think differently, contribute their experience and perspectives, and collaborate. 

When it comes to thinking about the future, most people struggle. Mainstream ideas and orthodoxies can dominate thinking about what might be possible. And limit both individual and collective imagining. 

This module explores creativity as a catalyst for change. Students learn how to create artefacts that engage people's emotions and empathy. Artefacts that help people ask questions. Artefacts that change how people feel about important issues. 

In business, writing a detailed report with clear findings, conclusions, and recommendations isn't enough. Insights must also be communicated and understood — and they must motivate action. 

Stories are powerful tools in influencing and reshaping people’s perspectives. A story is not just about what is communicated, but also how it impacts its audience. 

Students explore the role of questions in helping people to change their opinions and the stages and processes involved in explaining and selling complex ideas. They create and deliver a range of narrative outputs designed to build support for their recommendations and overcome rational and emotional objections. 

The scale and complexity of the challenges we face - as individuals, teams, organisations, communities, and as a society - can be overwhelming. Many of society's greatest challenges - climate change, inequality, education, healthcare - require understanding and redesigning complex systems, organisations and processes. 

During this module, students learn how to combine the analytical tools of systems thinking with the creative mindsets of human-centred design to make sense of complex systems challenges. 

They learn how to diagnose performance issues, and identify the root causes of problems. And how to redesign systems, organisations and processes to change their performance. 

Innovation plays a crucial role in driving systems change. Innovation challenges established policies, practices and power structures. It introduces new ways of thinking. And it provides the frameworks and tools needed to address complex, interconnected problems. 

During this module, students engage in a 6-month independent project to explore a business or societal problem of their choice that involves making changes to an imperfect system. This change could involve developing (or enhancing) a product or service, making changes to some aspect of the system, or making changes to an organisation or set of processes that are part of the system.