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    CAS Design Thinking

    • Short description
    • Target Audience
    • Positioning
    • Dates
    • Cost
    • How to apply

    Short description

    Attitude and method behind entrepreneurial and social innovation

    Design thinking is about mindset, approach and methodology all at the same time. As such, design thinking helps to find solutions to complex business and social problems of our time, drives innovation and promotes strategic development. This CAS teaches key aspects of design thinking and enables participants to use and to implement them in interdisciplinary teams.

    The programme is completed over a period of six months and consists of seven teaching modules of three days each. Participants have the chance to apply what they have learnt directly in a project of their own, and they have the support of a mentor in implementing their ideas.

    Target Audience

    The CAS Design Thinking is aimed at people from all functions and sectors who want to apply design-based thinking and action methods in their work and anchor them sustainably in their environment.

    • Designers and creative professionals who want to expand their methodological and strategic design skills
    • Specialists from different disciplines who want to focus more on aspects of design
    • Managers, in order to promote innovation and create a creative corporate culture

    Positioning

    In the context of the MAS Strategic Design, the CAS Design Thinking covers the essence of all seven dimensions of Strategic Design. The programme is particularly suitable for people who would like to extend their basic understanding of design and thereby enhance their reflective, enabling and transformation skills in particular.

    The ยซspider modelยป shows the dimensions of curriculum in strategic design.

    Know Yourself โ€“ Develop an awareness of yourself and your own value system, and an understanding of how these influence your own positioning and strategic behaviour.

    Master Tools โ€“ Gain a broad knowledge of the concepts, methods and other instruments which help with strategic decision-making and support the required processes.

    Shape Experiences โ€“ Build up expertise in aesthetic and experience-based elements and their influence on, and interaction in, the implementation of strategic decisions.

    Enable People โ€“ Empower third parties by the clever application of collaborative and communication skills.

    Navigate Complexity โ€“ Learn how to handle complex systems and about contextual relationships and how these can be influenced by interventions.

    Transform Organizations โ€“ Learn about the idiosyncrasies of organizations and other communities.

    Understand technology โ€“ Raise awareness of the potential of technological developments and their direct interaction with cultural aspects of everyday life.

    Dates

    The CAS Design Thinking starts annually in September and lasts until February in the following year. A maximum of 25 participants will be accepted. The languages of instruction are German and English.

    Next edition
    Academic year 2025/26: 11 September 2025 โ€“ 31 January 2026

    Subject to change

    Cost

    CHF 8800.โ€“ (plus CHF 200.โ€“ application fee)

    How to apply

    Further information: CAS Design Thinking