Digital Transformation - Micro-Credential
Auckland, New Zealand
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Mar 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Media Design Schoolโs Digital Transformation micro-credential offers essential upskilling for working professionals, leaders and managers. Youโll learn practical design thinking โ empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test โ with a Kaupapa Mฤori approach, industry guest speakers and peer collaboration across sectors. Youโll propose a creative, human-centered solution to a real problem in your organization, developing convergent and divergent thinking, prototyping skills, reflective practice and product, service and process innovation.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can move into roles such as product manager, UX designer, service designer, innovation consultant, design researcher and business analyst, or strengthen positions in leadership, digital transformation and project management.
Essential upskilling for working professionals, leaders and managers from all industries and sectors looking to creatively solve problems and develop innovative products, services, processes and systems.
- Learn from industry guest speakers
- Collaborate with like-mindedprofessionals
- Propose a design solution to a problem in your chosen organisation
Design thinking is a practical and creative problem-solving approach that focuses on human need. As a human-centred and iterative design approach, it involves empathising, defining, ideating, prototyping and testing โ to develop better and more innovative products, services, processes and systems. Design Thinking is therefore highly relevant to any business or organisation across all sectors.
In this Design Thinking micro-credential you will develop
- the ability to creatively solve specific problems through convergent and divergent thinking processes
- the ability to critically reflect on your practice and outcomes
- a Kaupapa Mฤori approach to design thinking and practice
- a creative solution to a real-world problem within your organisation
