welingkar institute Hiring for 3. Professor /Associate Professor / Assistant Professor Business Design at Mumbai (Maharashtra) Full Time

Job Description

3. Professor /Associate Professor / Assistant Professor Business Design Design Thinking is the designers work processes that can help in systematically extract, teach, learn and apply the human-centred techniques to so lve problems in a creative and innovative way (designs per se, Business models, Countries, & even our lives

With Businesses striving to achieve a competitive edge in their space, there is a growing need for cross-disciplinary learning. Design and Management come out as one of the best partners whereby applying design principles to management, organizations are able to bring new value and innovation. Therefore, business managers today, need to learn more from the open-minded, human-centered approach that of a designer in order to be able to provide the required expertise in the Design-Management partnership.

We School has leaned on the approach of Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford,(also known as d.school.) in terms of the approach for applying and teaching Design Thinking. The five phases of Design Thinking, according to d.school, are Empathise, Define, Ideate, prototype & test solutions.

Professionals with a good academic background in any discipline of Design Thinking/Design of Business/Architecture and similar creative disciplines. Alternatively, the right candidate must have valuable and demonstrated experience in ethnographic and qualitative research, customer experience, new product or service launch or specialist roles such as Design thinking/Innovation champions, UX etc ame a few but not restricted to these.

The right candidate would be one who has set up new business(es) or demonstrated the ability to drive an enterprise wide change. In this context, students should be influenced and inspired to adopt the innovation mind-set and/or design a business and/or change management in established organisations. It is also necessarty that he/she has the knowledge and experiences, in deploying emerging and future technologies.

The selected candidate would be expected to create the intended class room & student experiences, include generation of new ideas, thought processes, new and creative experiences . This would ensure contemporariness of the learning contents, with the best in class standards and organisation practices.

It would be important for the selected candidate, to possess the competence to redesign learning of core management courses , applying integrative understanding & innovation principles. A research bent of mind will be a topping on the above , that will enable thought leadership within the Program.