MIND – Licence to Act Differently – course teaches how to create industry changing strategic innovations!
The course suits especially for students of strategy, IDBM, product development, entrepreneurship, marketing, information networks, visual culture and industrial design. Students are advised to check whether the course can be included to their degree. The amount of students on the course is not limited.
Course information
Code: Kon-41.4006
Credits: 8 ECTS
Time: III-IV period, starts on Monday 16.1-Friday 2.3.2012, continues Monday 12.3- Friday 11.5.2012.
Lectures during 3rd period 4h on Fridays
No tuition during Easter, 5-11.4
Lectures during 4th period Tuesdays 2 h ja Fridays 4h at
Design Factory.
The course is held in English/Finnish.
https://noppa.aalto.fi/noppa/kurssi/kon-41.4006/etusivu.
Lecturer in charge: Chief Innovation Activist Anssi Tuulenmäki
Lecturers: Aalto researchers, professors, business practitioners who have changed their conventions.
Objectives of the course
1. To create ability to find new questions and new meanings. The goal is to understand that industries and conventions are above all mental constructions that can be challenged in many ways. The course teaches some conceptual procedures for finding new value from any industry. The implementation of the goal is followed through personal failure resumes and on the other hand through the new ideas produced.
2. To enhance ability to take theory instantly to practice, merging practice and theory in a genuine way. The goal is to understand that the best way to create something really new and to actually get a grip on implementing the ideas is to immediately start experimenting the ideas in practice.
3. Victory through experimenting.
When pursuing for something unique and totally new, failures and setbacks are inevitable. Each student is required a failure resume, in which he or she tells about the experiments and what has been learned from them.
Evaluation
50 % personal Failure Resume, 25 % team work and process know-how during the creation of innovations, 25 % team result.
Grades 1-5.
Further information
Noppa and Oodi and the assistant of the course: Susanna Björklund, susanna.bjorklund(at)aalto.fi
Comments of the previous courses
Course have been organized two times: spring 2010 and autumn 2010.
”The course was a jewel, the impact and learnings won´t be forgotten.”
” The course has made my thoughts fly and the lectures have been so interesting.”
” I learned to understand what I want to study and how and what sort of work I want after I graduate. The most important findings of the whole year.”
”Best offering was to realize; the world is far from being ready…”
”I have to say I learned so much from all the mistakes we made. Although the results were not that great, the process was rewarding and really helped to think out of the box. More of these kinds of courses, please”
” We should have started to experiment faster and more daringly. Our ideas could also have been wilder.”
” It was the best course I have taken, best learning experience.”
”The best thing was to understand how it really is possible to investigate an unknown field of problems so fast and to find new solutions.”
”This has been the most useful course during my studies. The best what Aalto can offer. I´m going to miss this.”