DG4S36 - Innovation Impact Lab 05 Dec 2019 - 31 Aug 2026 | Version 1
Associated Module Information
| Module Code: | DG4S36 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Module Title: | Innovation Impact Lab | ||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Business and Creative Industries | ||
| Faculty Group: | Fashion, Marketing and Photography | ||
| Faculty Sub Group: | Fashion Marketing and Photography | ||
| Module Leader: | Philip Harfield | ||
| Module Team: | Steven Wright | ||
| First Intended Intake: | SEP 2020 | Final Year of Intake: | 2025 |
| Date Closed: | |||
| Credit Value: | 20 | Credit Level: | 7 |
| Language: | English | ||
| Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: | 0 | ||
| Equivalent Module: | |||
| HECOS codes: | 100811 - creative management | ||
| HECOS Code Weighting: | 100 | ||
Document Version Information
| Version | 1 |
|---|---|
| Valid From | 05 Dec 2019 |
| Valid To | 31 Aug 2026 |
Module Aims
The ‘Innovation Impact Lab’ module focuses on the transformative power of design. Positioning of the module prior to the final ‘Innovation Lead Project’ allows students to impart a maturing of their professional skills throughout the module.
Specific aims are:
- To enable students to challenge incumbent innovation practices through the critical exploration of values-led innovation business models which respond to broader societal and sustainable development challenges
- To develop understanding of approaches to the measurement, reporting and strategic management of environmental, social and economic impact
- To build professional resources to negotiate disruptive and transformative innovation outcomes
- To enable reflection on how the co-design of innovation proposals is based upon both accurate, complete data and valid in-complete insight. In doing so, provide leadership in the demonstration of methods to quantify impacts of complex innovation initiatives (i.e. social impact evaluation methods)
- To build foundations for the implementation of an ‘innovation lead project’, through the development of an innovation delivery rationale, plan and project delivery team
Content Summary
In this module, students will explore ‘design intent’ and reflect the governance, commercial pressures and user behaviours as barriers and enablers of innovation. The lab philosophy of co-design will be acted on through external curation of activities. Consensus between stakeholders will be tested in order to gain support for proposed interventions.
Though designing new value propositions students will uncover opportunities for organisations to ‘redefine success in business’, through being responsive to environmental and social innovation drivers.
Content will synthesise thinking to support the initiation of a real innovation project, thus providing the rationale and momentum for the subsequent ‘innovation lead project’. In developing a Responsible Value Proposition students will engage a ‘how to innovate for change’ dialogue. Designing business experiences to make consumers looking past price through values aligned products and services.
Students will critically reflect on multi-stakeholder societal challenges and business contexts such as consumption, environmental narratives and ethical supply chains.
Activities will include:
- Approaches to creative leadership and building purpose-driven organisational cultures and values which engage staff and customers
- Designing new value propositions in answering unmet needs of customers and broader society
- Strategic and future oriented decision making
- Identify the stakeholders, finding connections and trusted participants through exploring shared motivations and cultures
- Negotiating collaborative impact through aligning goals, actions and outcomes in your innovation ecosystem
- Implementing methods to manage group activities and accountability to help drive momentum towards goals
- Consideration of risk, cost benefit, resourcing and funding opportunities as recognised within a feasibility study
Learning and Teaching Methods
| Activity Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Seminar | 24 |
| Tutorial | 4 |
| External visits | 4 |
| Independent Study | 100 |
| Directed Study | 60 |
| Groupwork | 8 |
| Total Hours Selected | 200 |
Learning Outcomes
| # | Learning Outcome |
|---|---|
| LO1 | Interpret social and environmental drivers in respect of commercial objectives through communicating externalities and whole system approaches |
| LO2 | Critically identify and communicate any biases and assumptions inherent in the effective communication of innovation proposition |
Module Requisites
N/A
Assessment Criteria
| Assessment Category | Assessment Type | Description | Duration | Word Count | Weight (%) | Best of? | Pass Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Synchronous Onsite Oral Assessment | Presentation (Synchronous Onsite) 1 | Pitching Innovation Impacts: Present the multi-level impacts (macro, mezzo, micro) associated with pitching the case for an innovative initiative. | 0 | 2000 | 40 | No | 40 |
| Asynchronous Assessment | Portfolio 1 | Testing Proposed Impact: Report on the delivery of a small-scale test of the impact proposed by an innovation initiative. | 0 | N/A | 60 | No | 40 |
Assessment Matrix
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| LO1 | LO2 | ||
| Presentation (Synchronous Onsite) 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Portfolio 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |