Master of Creative Enterprise and Innovation

Business & Management

A transdisciplinary Master's programme focusing on creative enterprise, innovation, and leadership. It prepares graduates to be leaders and innovators in business, social, and community contexts by applying creative and design thinking for entrepreneurship and organisational change.

NZ$10,649

inc GST

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NZQA Level 9 Certification (180 Credits)

Study Level

Post Grad

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Blended study

This is a mix of online learning & face-to-face sessions

Auckland City Symonds Street Campus, Auckland

It will take a total of 18 months

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Develop innovative leadership and communication skills

Demonstrate an agile mindset, strong communication, and leadership through storytelling and creative expression.

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Apply critical thinking to design innovation

Discern and analyse social, cultural, environmental, and economic impacts of innovation in business and design contexts.

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Create creative, non-linear solutions

Design and deliver innovative, non-linear solutions to a range of design and enterprise challenges.

What You're Signing Up For

The Master of Creative Enterprise and Innovation at Whitecliffe College is a non-discipline-specific programme melding academic learning, problem-solving, design thinking, and system-minded human-centred design. The programme is designed to foster student curiosity, resilience, and innovative capability, developing both leadership and entrepreneurial skills applicable to a wide range of business, social, and community ventures. Learning is practical, hands-on, and integrated, supporting students toward launching minimum viable products and building sustainable business models or innovative leadership roles within organisations.

Course Content

  • Entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial characteristics development
  • Non-linear problem solving and creative thinking
  • Building resilience and risk tolerance
  • Hands-on, applied innovation projects
  • Opportunity recognition in various industries
  • Development of Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
  • Approaching investors and market-readiness
  • Leadership and communication skills
  • Critical analysis of social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts
  • Goal setting and project monitoring

What you need to know first

Bachelor’s Degree with a B average in the final year, or a Bachelor Honours Degree or Postgraduate Diploma

Bachelor’s Degree plus relevant professional experience

Equivalent practical, professional and/or scholarly experience

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What sort of industry will this job lead to

  • Business and Management

  • Entrepreneurship

  • Design Innovation

  • Leadership

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Future employment opportunities might be

  • Entrepreneur

  • Enterprise creator

  • Business founder/owner

  • Senior manager or C-suite management roles

  • Disrupter

  • Agent of change

  • Job creator