Executive Master Imagineering

In a creative economy there is a growing need for high level professionals who can create and innovate value from the experience perspective. This English-taught master’s programme in Imagineering is designed as a methodology for that new ‘outside-in enterprise logic’.

The Master’s programme in Imagineering focuses on the specific concept of designing for organizational emergence using the imagination to involve other stakeholders as co-designers of the future. The Master’s programme offers you a deeper theoretical insight in issues of organizational design in the context of enterprise logic transformation. It enables you to develop analytical, pro-active, problem-solving attitudes and design-skills towards these issues. 

Nowadays, people are driven much more by values of self-expression rather than those of rudimentary survival. They have a deep need to make sense of their lives in ways that are unique and personal. One of the most distinct ways in which this is manifested, is the new individual’s consumption and participation pattern, by means of their choices they create their own identity.

Organisations

Business organisations continue to answer these new consumption patterns with the standard logic of traditional enterprise. This logic, called ‘managerial capitalism’ helped businesses to be successful in the past century. Now, the chasm between today’s individuals and today’s commercial organisations leads to a 'transaction crisis'. The fundamental changes in the nature of consumption today will be tomorrow’s changes in the nature and purpose of business. This change will affect the underlying logic of capitalism itself and it will pave the way for major transformations within the enterprise logic of many organisations.

Aim of the programme

The Executive Master Imagineering is designed for professionals who are responsible for strategic matters, e.g. innovation managers, marketing managers, communication managers, human resources managers, general directors and entrepreneurs. The programme has been set up to educate business innovation oriented professionals to become imagineering experts who:

• understanding conditions in which organizations may require a design intervention;

• increasing awareness of multiple ways for orchestrating organizational development;

• developing the personal competencies needed to design an imaginative narrative for adaptive management;

• reflexive understanding of your own approaches and responses to development.