MBA vs. Masters of Design Management

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March 24, 2008

What is the dissimilarity between an MBA and a Masters in Design or a Masters in Design Management? The latter two degrees are fairly common–especially in Europe–but the MBA is brand new and still rare.

A Masters in Design is intended at training designers to be leading, considerate designers. These degrees may comprise some focus on plan and business realities (like CCA’s new Graduate Program in Design under Brenda Laurel’s new leadership), but their attentiveness is on design.

A Masters in Design Management more often than not trains designers or other business people in managing the intend function within an association. This department may be including under Marketing, Engineering, Operations, or somewhere else, depending on an organizations’ structure, or it may be its own division. These programs positively include curricula in managing people within organizations and some business functions.

In its place of leading designers and design leaders, an MBA is a business degree focused on creating business leaders that are grateful for the value design can bring to their organizations. What differentiates the MBA in Design Strategy (or Design MBA, for short) is that it relies on design principles as a direction for innovation plan so that graduates understand how to innovate within businesses. It’s purpose is to help designers and business people from non-design areas, including from the non-profit world, know how to manage meaningful innovation within an organization and lead with a full understanding of how all parts of an organization must be busy in order for the company to innovate efficiently.

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