Design and Innovation Class

I am currently attending Temple University for my graduate degree (MBA). This summer, I am taking a class called Design and Innovation (MIS 5190). This class is an introduction to design thinking and methods in organizations. It is a combination of classroom, online (posting ideas and notes onto blog sites) and fieldwork experience (class trip to San Francisco to visit IDEO, Yahoo, SAP and several other companies). We also had to do a team design project for our class to help us think more like a designer.

I will be posting what I have learned from this class and trip, including my thoughts and pictures from the corporate visits. This blog will help me organize my thoughts, so that I can write my final paper for two different professors (one for MIS and one for GSM - for GSM credit).

Our class trip to San Francisco began on Monday, May 19, 2008 through to Thursday, May 22, 2008. First, we started out learning about design thinking from small Information Technology companies to medium to large ones. Then we moved into design thinking from a Branding/Marketing perspective. After that, we learned about design thinking from a medium sized Product Development company. Finally, we visited small to medium sized architecture companies and learned about how they used design processes.