Different Innovation in Contemporary Business Practices Report – Management Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Task 

Brief Description of the Assessment Task    
For this assessment, you will be required to undertake a range of readings, watch demonstrations of how certain design thinking tools are used in practice and then attempt to apply those tools to understand and ultimately define a project definition for an industry problem. 

Details of the Student Output    
Your submissions can either be a PowerPoint presentation (20–30 slides), a Word document (15–20 pages) or a combination of the two. 
The key deliverables from you would include the following:

•    A duly filled checklist for artefacts
•    Annotated portfolio created using the artefacts that you worked on during the course
•    Reflections on the artefacts and the portfolio

This task Assesses Your Achievement of These Unit Learning Outcomes    

• ULO1: Work constructively and collaboratively with stakeholders, business networks and peers to formulate a design thinking approach to innovation.
• ULO2: Formulate and apply an integrated understanding of the design thinking principles and applications to critically evaluate how different approaches affect innovation in contemporary business practices,

Assignment Overview
Your assessment task requires you to develop a nuanced and clear problem statement arising out of the insights gained using the process; you are also required to annotate a portfolio of evidence of the project completed to explain the benefits and uses of design thinking tools for understanding your problem and, specifically, how and why you might use these tools in your own future work lives; what you would do again and/or differently; what you have learnt about yourself; what your own learning style is; and, importantly, your own contributions to a team as a consequence of the work completed in this course. 

Expectations From You
It is worth noting that the portfolio is made up of two parts. The first part (approximately 90% of the content) describes your design thinking journey to understand the industry problem by using design thinking tools. The second part (around 10% of the content) relates to the ways in which you have used design thinking tools to collaborate and build a team. While some of the artefacts for this part should be created collaboratively (by the team as a group), the annotations must be individual.

This assignment does not require you to identify a potential solution. 
In fact, if you move too quickly to a solution, you are likely to limit your opportunities to do well in this assignment. You will be assigned to a team during this course, and you will be expected to work with and communicate with your team. However, the work that you submit for this course must be individual work that will be individually marked.To the extent that you identify key themes or focus points as a group that you plan to take into your next assignment, ensure that you acknowledge the input of your group members and express the ideas and show the exercises that are your own individual work.
 You will continue to work with the same team in the next course, where you will collaborate to create a solution to a design brief that will relate to this same industry problem. The work you do, both individually and together with your team, requires you to have a deep understanding of the problem in ways that you can share insights with your teammates and then work with them to create an innovative solution to a problem based on a shared understanding.

What Are Annotations?
The most important element of your submission is the annotations that you make in your portfolio. Reading the annotations is how your grader will assess whether you have achieved the learning outcomes. Annotations are notes containing your reflections and insights. They explain what you did, 
what you learnt by doing that, what you might do differently in the future and what insights you have. By reading the annotations, you learnt about:

• The theories and tools introduced in this course (design thinking as a means for understanding human-centred problems) and
• Your abilities to apply those theories and tools (what you now understand about the problem that you will ultimately be asked to solve).

Please spend some time looking at the assessment criteria carefully. The purpose of annotating the portfolio is two-fold:
1.To demonstrate the ways in which you use the tools that you will be learning about to draw insights about the problem, and
2.To reflect on the use of these tools and to articulate how and when these tools may be valuable to your future work.

Annotations do not need to be lengthy. However, they should:

• Be clearly written,
• Incorporate citations (as required),
• Be clearly linked to the relevant artefact (or part of an artefact), and
• Tell the story of how you arrived at the insights/conclusions you arrive at.

How Do You ‘Reflect’?
Even though it is delivered online, this course is designed to be a learning experience. Articulating learning by reflection has been used by design practitioners for many years to identify key learnings and insights. Reflection improves the quality of discourse, and consequently practising reflection will assist you to retain learnings from this course, articulate your insights and problem statements in the next course and clearly specify the features and benefits that are desirable for any workable solution in your group project. Design thinkers value iteration, which is something that is not possible without reflective practice.
 
A good way to reflect on experience is to use a framework that prompts deep and purposeful thinking about what happened. The 5Rs (modified as 4Rs below) of the reflection (Bain et al. 2002) is one such framework. The five elements of this framework are Reporting, Responding, Reasoning, Relating, and Reconstructing. When used effectively, reflection can facilitate significant personal and/or professional growth. Using the following checklist will help you ensure that you have reflected on each of the tools.