Designing Innovation

Catalog description

Throughout the Master of Health Care Innovation, you have learned innovation and leadership skills and techniques that will help you transform health care for the better. This 9-week lab offers you a safe space to practice and hone those skills with the goal of generating positive change in future projects. To start, you will choose a project that matches the needs of your professional setting with your skills and strengths, within the context of what is doable in a limited scope and timeframe. You will take stock of your strengths and the resources at your disposal; practice key innovation techniques including contextual inquiry, problem definition, and creative divergence; right-size your project; and refine your rhetorical skills to construct persuasive pitches calibrated to various audiences of stakeholders and decision makers. You may come away with a project you wish to pursue further in your professional setting. However, the most important outcome of this lab will be the experience you gain from immersing yourself in the innovation and design process.