Innovation and creative thinking are important skills in strategy development. Part of this process is the ability to solve problems and discover new opportunities; or in other words, the notion of “design thinking”. This unit introduces students to concepts and frameworks to create innovative products, services and systems for a range of enterprises, industries and markets. Students will explore and analyze business and social networks, clusters and ecosystems via practice-based projects. Design thinking principles will be applied to systematically develop ideas into innovative solutions as a way to drive business growth.