In an immersive, peer-led learning experience, the Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation (CISI) program steps you through a diverse set of creative methods, conceptual frameworks, practices and perspectives which you apply to your own vocational context.
Learner experience
The experience is designed for busy working lives, offering a mix of short, studio and deep-dive learning. Learners in our postgraduate courses enjoy a collegiate, cohort-based learning program where insights and experience are shared for impact.
Normally when people think about innovation, they think in terms of doing innovative projects.
And what do you do then?
Well, you do a project. You think about it. You reflect. You create insights that can lead to new experiments. And you do new projects.
Which is what we call the washing machine.
Because it goes around and around, and the projects actually generate income.
Which is all good.
But of course, that's not the end game.
What you really want to do is:
— change the organisation's practices
— change its strategy
— change its structure, maybe, when it's needed, and
— actually have impact on the whole sector.
Because these insights should really travel up organisations.
What we found through our practice and research at UTS, is that there is a problem with this. The link between practices and strategy is very very difficult and often it doesn't work.
And why is that?
Well, strategy tends to be determined top down, from the sector downwards, instead of coming from the bottom up.
So, this is where innovation gets stuck. This is where innovation doesn't get to its full potential, and doesn't have the impact that it should have.
The sector reacts to what it sees as its relevant environment, its field.
And, with the insights that we have, we can also start influencing that perception, influencing that field. And once you can do that, then the top-down process and the bottom-up process work together, to create innovation in the organisation.
The Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation at UTS was custom made to support organisations through all of these steps, effectively building a new innovation ecosystem within the organisation.
To find out more about the Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation, please contact our partnerships team:
Amanda McGregor
Strategic Partnerships Director
amanda.mcgregor@uts.edu.au
I realised I was already working in a TD way – but needed the language and creative confidence to articulate my journey.
Matilda Coy, CEO of Georgie Collective and CISI Learner
Speaker: Danielle Handley, Acting EGM Customer and Analytics Strategy and Innovation Division, IAG
Doing MCISI has definitely shifted my perception of innovation and how I approach or think about innovation now. There's been a deeper learning of the thought processes and the creativity that can come together when individuals from multiple disciplines just collaborate. And so that's really made me think differently about unlocking innovation in an organisation.
I learnt that sustainable change is not a revolution – it’s an evolution.
Julie Batch, Group Executive, Direct Insurance, IAG and CISI Alumna
I wanted to learn how to think in a new way, whilst still working in a very rigid bureaucracy and the CISI is the degree that gave me this opportunity.
Phil Hugill, Director of Classification and Placement, NSW Justice and CISI Alumnus
Speaker: Cecilia Warren, Director, Research & Development, IAG
What you've got here is something that's unique. It's in Australia, and it's an amazing opportunity. So, if you're thinking of doing the program, just do it, send groups of people along and, and learn.
It met a need for the organisation – the flexible structure and the ‘de-jour’ quality of the CISI program with tools to address a complex, networked and uncertain climate.
Cecilia Warren, Non-Executive Board Director iMove CRC and CISI Alumna
You do an MBA to run an organisation. The CISI to change an organisation.
Annalise Brown, Senior Business and Communications Professional and CISI Learner
Speaker: Carl Heise, Service Architect, Transport for NSW
So the most important thing the MCISI’s offered me in my career is an opportunity to reimagine it. What the MCISI’s let me do is imagine what fabulous can look like in an office.
