Course detail
Marketing and Management in Design
FSI-YMM Acad. year: 2022/2023 Winter semester
The student will gain a basic overview of the management of the company, design team or design project and marketing in defining a design product and its marketing. Emphasis is placed on practical applications of knowledge – examples from real practice. In the context of the entire study, the course provides important competencies for the effective placement of graduates in practice (both in engineering and in the field of design). Especially in the rapidly growing project approach to the work of companies (great diversity and innovation of outputs (products)) and in the creative industry.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will be able to implement preparation for business-planned activities. They will gain knowledge of the base of marketing – product, markets, competition, competitive strategy, marketing communication. They will acquire knowledge of basic management in the field of processes, human resources, finance, (and pricing) and information. They will get acquainted with the possibilities of protecting a design work from plagiarism or financial undervaluation. The course will support the student in fulfilling the prescribed content of the thesis.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of mathematics in the scope of bachelor's study, elementary knowledge of working with a PC in the Windows system and mastered work in a spreadsheet.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught in the form of lectures, which have the character of an explanation of the basic principles and theory of the discipline. The exercise is focused on the practical mastery of the material covered in lectures in the form of collective (2 to 3 people) solving problems from the lectured topics.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Acquisition of credit is conditioned by participation in seminars, completion of prescribed consultations, submission of the assigned project (determination of career plan for the first 5 years after graduation with consideration of diversity in design areas). oral defense of the project (max. 50 points).
Written exam form (max. 50 points).
To successfully complete the course, it is necessary to always obtain at least half of the maximum number of points (25 + 25) in both parts.
The classification of the subject follows the ECTS scale.
Aims
The aim is to prepare the student for work in a market environment. To explain to him the systemic, chronological procedures in the marketing of design work and the organization of work. Bring to the student the reasoning and arguments of managers – design investors. Develop students' business literacy.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance at lectures is recommended, attendance at seminars is mandatory. Teaching takes place according to weekly schedules. It is within the competence of the exercise leader to determine the methods of compensating for missed classes.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-PDS-P: Industrial Design, Master's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Designer as entrepreneur. Starting a company and basic prerequisites for development.
- Financial management of an entrepreneur – a realistic view of one's own possibilities.
- Strategic view of the product.
- Strategic view of available markets.
- Strategic view of competition and competitive strategies.
- Strategic view of implementation costs and profit generation.
- Strategic view of marketing communications.
- Personnel management and employee flow in the firm. Self-analysis and personal compatibility with entrepreneurial vision.
- Information management, information security and information disposition.
- Copyright law and industrial legal protection against plagiarism.
- Royalty and licence, trading in one's own creative potential.
- Introduction to project management.
- Managerial and leadership approaches to organizing a company. Management and leadership.
Studio work
30 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Preparation of business plan and setting goals of the design business.
- Preparation of the financial model of the company's prosperity.
- Defining the main product for the business.
- Market research approaches.
- Exploring the differentiation potential of business in design.
- Profit generation analysis.
- Preparation of a communication plan for the promotion of design.
- Examining the student's suitability for individual or collective business.
- Elaboration of data protection in the company.
- Taking practical examples of copyright infringement.
- Determination of royalities and licenses for specific design work.
- Processing of the timeable using the critical path method.
- Defining the characteristics of a design project leader.