Leading Multidisciplinary Radical Creativity

The Master's Programme in International Design Business Management (IDBM) helps you become a future creative professional in combining design and technology with global business development.

IDBM students tackle complex real-life challenges provided by our renowned industry partners. In multidisciplinary teams, IDBMers develop holistic solutions and transitions to address the questions of tomorrow.

The IDBM curriculum integrates business, design and technology to enable students to lead multidisciplinary radical creativity. Graduates of the program earn a master’s degree in business, design or technology, and gain extensive transdisciplinary teamwork experience that enables them to work in a wide variety of fields.

Adithya Varadarajan

IDBM Alumnus

"IDBM provided a solid foundation for my role in Finnair, as the fundamental requirement to succeed in a role like this is to be comfortable balancing the needs of the user, the business, and the technology - which is the very core of the program as well."

Virva Haltsonen

IDBM Alumna

"It’s about understanding different point of views and working with different kinds of people"

Van Chu

IDBM Alumnus

"During IDBM I was exposed to three relevant concepts I have continued to build on during my career: cross-disciplinary collaboration, user-centricity, and being outcome-focused."

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Co-creating the Future

Lasting approximately 7 months, the IDBM Capstone: Industry Projects combine multidisciplinary student teams with our clients where students apply their skills on real life business cases and problems using design thinking methodology.

Industry Projects generate new, innovative concepts that tackle real business problems now, and in the future. Combining extensive qualitative research with prototyping and experimentation, the projects lead to novel insights, concepts and creations.

Since 1995, we have worked with 160+ different projects and clients. Some of the clients we have worked with in the past include: