The Executive MBA features real-life industry problem-solving and gives you access to a broad network of senior executives
Real-life industry consultancy
The award-winning experiential learning subject Strategic Design Studio (SDS) is a core subject in the Executive MBA. It combines leading research and methods with industry best practices to provide client organisations with innovative solutions and realistic and achievable implementation plans. As a student, you are guided by senior academics, experienced industry coaches and an advisory board.
In this subject, a team of three to five students works with a dedicated industry coach and a client organisation to solve a strategic innovation challenge. The student team delivers evidence-based strategic recommendations and execution plans, ready for the client to apply to their business.
Students apply the latest business knowledge of strategy and innovation to the demands of the client-specific challenge.
[Music] The strategic design studio provides a unique learning opportunity within the uts executive mba. it enables students to work on real client challenges so we partner with client organizations who have a complex challenge and we put students into teams and they work on addressing these challenges for the clients the experience of going through the moves of applying tools and techniques to innovate and strategically think through towards a new solution is one that we want students to experience outside their own organization or outside their own startup coming out of this experience they are equipped to do that in their own context so can bring this back to their organizations or apply it to the venture for clients coming into the mba program they'll have a chance to really get on board with the projects they can be as involved as they want to be and get the opportunity to while they're working with students have exposure to all the professionals who are advising the students by the very nature of the way that the course is developed so i think it's a really great opportunity for anyone interested to take part we started center rugby about five years ago we just felt like bringing that rugby and therapy together would be a great space for kids to find belonging and to get some great sensory input and become part of a team we reached out to uts business school we were at a point in central rugby where it had grown quite significantly and i felt like we weren't able to keep up with the demand and from there we sort of felt lost within the business it made a really big difference for us in terms of having someone look at it externally and just look at the whole organization look at the business as a whole and talk to all of the stakeholders involved we got such amazing information through all of the work they did that we just never could have gotten ourselves it also just really made us reflect and think about why we started and where we wanted to go with it the sense rugby team did a really great job at really turning the client's problem upside down and going into great depth in terms of what the organization could do the team brought a whole new perspective and really challenged their thinking about what their organisation could become i loved being part of a project that i genuinely cared about we really valued the client and what they their vision was once we knew the business once we met the owners we were immediately engaged and immediately really really passionate to achieve their goal to share their mission their vision we kept that passion every single day the kinds of projects that we're looking for are either startup organizations that want to scale or large corporate organizations government organizations or charities even that have to solve a real juicy complex wicked problem i would recommend other clients to partner with uts because it really saved us so much time and money right now we also just feel so inspired by the road map out that they've created for us they solved a lot of problems in a way that we wouldn't have done it ourselves
Industry Advisory Board
The Executive MBA Industry Advisory Board comprises senior leaders with deep industry connections. The Board provides thought leadership to ensure the program maintains distinction as the UTS Business School's premium postgraduate program.
Board members mentor students, foster professional networking and outreach opportunities, present addresses for alums and current students, and provide advice on emerging areas of grand challenges for sustainable economic development such as industry transformation, climate change, disability, diversity and inclusion.
