ON CAMPUS
Developing a future mindset
through blended learning
Hult’s mission is to fully prepare its students
to enter the international business arena. But equipping
everyone with the skills needed to succeed is no easy feat
when you are working in an environment where change
is the only constant. Hult has developed an innovative
future mindset course to help students keep up with
today’s business world.
Teaching the future A city ahead of the times
The next decade will see the ascendancy of
new exponential technologies that will change
global economic realities and ways of daily life.
Making sense of the possibilities and experiences
that a new world of mobility, Big Data, cloud
computing, and artificial intelligence will bring
requires a future mindset that can understand
and act in rapidly shifting digital contexts,
organizations, and technologies. ‘City of the Future’ was chosen as the theme
through which students developed their future
mindsets. They worked in teams to define new
digital products, services, and/or experiences
that could become a reality in their campus city.
They were exposed to the tools, techniques, and
tactics that digitally-forward organizations use
to build workplace future mindsets. Working in
a product management context meant they had to
interrogate and develop a profound understanding
of their own ideas. The hypothesis they formed
then had to be prototyped and robustly validated
to comply with prevailing business practices.
By the end of the course, students had gained
the knowledge and experience needed to learn,
succeed, fail, and grow in the future economy.
Embracing the future mindset
Hult reacted to this new business reality by
developing a six-week blended program tailored
to the needs of Masters in International Business
students. The course’s main objective is to build
key competencies in the mindsets and approaches
of the new digital economy. Students learn how
startups and today’s digitally-forward organizations
define new opportunities by designing forward-
looking business concepts and understanding
how to turn them into learning and growth.
They experience the chaos and uncertainty of
how a product moves from idea to concept
through hypothesis, pivots, and iterations, and
gain actionable insights into just how critical the
product manager role is within digital organizations
that embrace the future mindset.
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