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GBUS 8484 - Creativity & Design Thinking

Effective Start Date: 07/18/2011
The focus of this course is on design thinking, a particular problem-solving approach that emphasizes customer empathy, invention, optionality, and iteration as its core components. Design thinking is concerned with the creative side of strategic thinking and complements the more analytical strategic orientation that emphasizes quantitative methodologies, evaluation frameworks, and the assessment of a single solution to a strategic problem.

Credits: 1.5
Grading Basis: Graded