Postgraduate Certificate in Design Management

George Brown College - Waterfront Campus

Canada,Ontario

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12 Months

Duration

CAD 23,026/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 110 FREE

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Canada, Ontario

Type: College

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1967

Total Students: 32,117 +

Int. Students: 4,900 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

51 Dockside Dr, Toronto, ON M5A 1B6, Canada

Postgraduate Certificate in Design Management

Program Overview

This exciting one-year postgraduate certificate program in Design Management builds the skills needed to lead a multidisciplinary design team. Learn all about how to create design strategies for products and services based on business objectives. You'll complete this program equipped with practical tools and interpersonal skills, plus the expertise needed to manage a consultancy or corporate design division.

This program is for:

  • Design professionals with a global perspective who want to become active partners in helping firms develop and grow through expanded participation in strategic management.
  • Designers looking to enhance your career opportunities in supervisory or management positions.
  • Designers seeking to integrate strategic design into the workplace.
  • Designers with an entrepreneurial spirit wanting to start your own company.

Your courses will include lessons in design process and strategy, project management, finance, team management, design research, contracts, business planning, communications, and intellectual property protection. You'll also participate in a major studio course featuring real-world design projects.

Program Learning Outcomes

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

  • Manage multi-disciplinary design groups using practical working models of management systems.
  • Analyze evolving market needs to identify design strategies required for the development of new products and services.
  • Plan, implement and control project plans that are flexible and reflect the evolutionary environment of the design process.
  • Enhance leadership skills, management skills and design expertise through the development of personal professional development strategies and plans.
  • Establish working relationships with clients, customers, and designers which maintain and strengthen their loyalty to their organization, as well as recognize design discipline protocols.
  • Develop and implement business strategies to recruit clients and new business opportunities.
  • Design and deliver sales presentations persuasively and accurately in oral, written, graphic and digital form.
  • Formulate and present comprehensive business plans for design projects.
  • Develop design strategies based on perceived value, competitive pressures and corporate objectives.
  • Evaluate results of design activities using criteria relating to application of best practices, costs, and profits.

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