DEA 5540

Workplace Strategies Studio

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This course provides students with a unique "hands-on" experience of working with real clients to simulate workplace strategic consulting practice. Students will lean and apply concepts, techniques, and tools to plan, design, and reinvent workplaces to support the achievement of ambitious business goals, inspire today's connected and mobile knowledge workers, and facilitate the management of uncertainty and change in large complex organizations. Topics covered include strategic and tactical workplace planning, workplace evaluation, space management and consolidation, real estate decisions of site selection, analysis of workplace economic metrics, and workplace design for change management.

When Offered Spring.

Fees Minimum cost of materials: $100.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: DEA 3590 or permission of instructor.

Course Attribute (CU-CEL)

• Apply concepts, techniques, and tools of workplace strategies planning to address typical challenges facing large complex organization.
• Develop innovative and well-grounded workplace planning, design and management solutions for value generation, change management, and branding.
• Work in small teams and compete with other teams in class as in a consulting project in real world; polish skills for client communication and professional delivery of consulting work in oral, visual and written forms.

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