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Essay Exam Grading
There are two questions on this exam and a total of 20 points are available for this assignment.
Each question is worth 8 points and there are 4 points available overall. Please see the rubrics
below for detailed grading.
Please note: citation style doesn’t matter for this — what I’d like to see is an explicit reference to
the materials using the author’s full name and a title of the work being cited, if relevant (the title
isn’t necessary for citing the discussion threads).
Question 1 Rubric Possible Points
Incorporates and cites ideas from class materials 2
Shares an opinion (agree / disagree, and why) on ideas from class materials 2
References, cites, and builds on an idea from a colleague from a Week 1 to 4
discussion thread
2
Provides a company-specific example 1
Falls within the word limit and addresses the questions posed 1
Total 8
Question 2 Rubric Possible Points
Incorporates and cites ideas from class materials 2
Shares an opinion (agree / disagree, and why) on ideas from class materials 2
References, cites, and builds on an idea from a colleague from a Week 1 to 4
discussion thread
2
Provides a company-specific example 1
Falls within the word limit and addresses the questions posed 1
Total 8
Overall Essay Exam Rubric Possible Points
Appropriate syntax and sentence structure 2
Submitted before deadline (8pm on Sunday, 5/1) 1
Formatting & Access: Filename includes preferred full name and sharing access
is provided without requiring a request from the instructor
1
Total 4
Essay Questions
Please use 300 to 500 words to answer each question. Between your two answers, you should
have no more than 1,000 words.
1. How would you advise a company to integrate design thinking and innovation leadership into
their culture? What should a company think about in terms of the framing of the “Exponential
Age”?
Please provide more than one example of how design thinking and/or innovation
leadership could be modeled within an organization – values that a company can focus
on and actions that they can encourage their leaders to take to bring these concepts to
life inside their organization. What are some components that they should watch out for
as a result of this integration?
2. You and your imaginary team will be using the concept of Blue Ocean Strategy OR the
concept of shared value (please pick one) to create a new product or business model inside
an existing organization.
Please explain the key components that you and your team would look for to determine
whether you had successfully implemented either a Blue Ocean Strategy OR a shared
value strategy. What are two organizations that have successfully implemented the
strategy you’ve chosen and what are some indicators that they used these strategies,
i.e. what did they notice within the company as a result of these strategies?
