Spring 2027

Managing by Design

MANAGING BY DESIGN explores design as a new practice in management for identifying innovation opportunities. It includes readings, cases, and creative projects to advance design skills in management contexts.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.67 GPA, 88.1% A/AB (n=59 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.52 GPA, 72.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.52 GPA, 84.8% A/AB (n=66 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain the relevance of design ideas to management practice – how to do more with less, to align and lead teams through a lean, efficient and vetted process for creative innovation.

  • Describe the role and potential of digital technologies in delivering novel experiences.

  • Describe how synthetic thinking complements analytic thinking.

  • Practice considering the human experience of products, services, and systems.

  • Explain how design can operate at all levels in an organization and is not limited to obvious domains, such as product development or communications department.

  • Apply creative ideas and methods of design that develop management skills and techniques, i.e., make small bets fast, evaluate failure intelligently and harness breakthroughs to propel company growth or social good.

  • Develop skills and perspectives on in-market experiments that save time and resources while revealing smarter outcomes.

  • Reflect on how you can become a more innovative thinker and leader.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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OTM 760

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  • Graduate/professional standing

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.67 GPA, 88.1% A/AB (n=59 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.52 GPA, 72.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.52 GPA, 84.8% A/AB (n=66 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Design as a new practice in management.
  • Identifying innovation opportunities in all types of organizations.
  • The role and potential of digital technologies in delivering novel experiences.
  • How design operates at all organizational levels beyond obvious domains like product development.

Skills

  • Apply creative ideas and methods of design to develop management skills and techniques.
  • Describe how synthetic thinking complements analytic thinking.
  • Practice considering the human experience of products, services, and systems.
  • Develop skills and perspectives on in-market experiments that save time and resources while revealing smarter outcomes.

Grades

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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