HWZ: New Master's Course in Business Innovation

The new part-time degree program is dedicated to creating a sustainable culture of innovation and builds seamlessly on successful HWZ learning concepts in the field of business engineering. "A Business Innovator creates a corporate culture that allows for sustainable innovation management. We enable entrepreneurs and decision-makers to face up to market dynamics such as digitalization and to manage changing business models," says Martin Kägi, Partner at KW+P and Head of the CAS Innovation Management course at the HWZ. Together with his business partner Oliver Keller, Kägi is the driving force behind the MAS Business Innovation.

The MAS Business Innovation goes a decisive step further than previous courses on the market: it focuses on specific processes and procedural models such as "Design Thinking", "Agile Development" or "Business Model Innovation". Participants are systematically enabled to apply these methods in practice. The course is worth 62 ECTS credits and, like the existing Master's courses in Business Engineering, consists of a total of five CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies) - three compulsory and two elective CAS - and a Master's thesis. One of the compulsory modules is the new CAS Innovation Management. The part-time course can be started at any time and is possible alongside a 100% employment. The MAS Business Innovation is run by the HWZ together with its partners SGO Business School and Digicomp.

Innovation update for executives

Innovation leadership is also the subject of an Executive Update at the newly founded "Executive Academy" of the HWZ. In so-called Executive Updates, the latest know-how is imparted in a concentrated form specifically for entrepreneurs, members of management, division heads and other experienced managers with the aim of direct applicability in the company.