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The education industry is at a pivotal crossroads — facing urgent demands for innovation, equity, adaptability, and value creation. This program offers a rigorous yet practical path for transforming systemic challenges into entrepreneurial opportunities through logical, emotionally intelligent, and cause-effect-based thinking by using the Decalogue Management Methodology and Theory of Constraints (TOC).
The Postgraduate Certificate in Systemic Innovation and Educational Entrepreneurship is designed to equip professionals with the tools, strategies, and methodologies needed to address systemic challenges and drive innovation in the construction and infrastructure sectors.
This course equips current and aspiring education professionals with the tools, frameworks, and entrepreneurial mindset needed to solve systemic constraints in the education sector. Leveraging the Decalogue Management Methodology and Theory of Constraints (TOC) thinking processes, participants will learn to identify root causes of chronic problems, generate breakthrough innovations, and build sustainable, real-world education ventures.
This is the program for you, if you:
The final project, Profitable Innovation Project (PIP), Each student must design, develop, and deliver a validated education-sector innovation that solves a meaningful systemic constraint, with real-world engagement. The project must demonstrate evidence of profit, validation and traction — either through early revenue, partnership buy-in, or tangible investor interest.
This program is ideal for:
Module One: Breakthrough Thinking for Continuous Innovation in Construction & Infrastructure Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Aim: Identify and resolve personal or organizational blockages in education systems using the Conflict Cloud.
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Module Two: Crafting Complete, Thought-through Solutions for a Desirable Future in Construction & Infrastructure Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Once we have identified a solution, we need a way to check that our solution will lead to desired outcomes and that it is complete. We also need to be able to identify and avoid potential unintended consequences that can interfere with the success of implementing our solution.
Evaluate the completeness and systemic viability of a proposed educational solution.
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Key Deliverable: FRT + Negative Branch Analysis Document
Module Three: Systemic Strategy and Implementation in Construction & Infrastructure Innovation & Entrepreneurship
In construction and infrastructure, systemic blockages often stem from complex interdependencies and conflicting stakeholder priorities. The Decalogue Management Methodology and Theory of Constraints help uncover the core conflict behind these challenges by using the Core Conflict Cloud to link seemingly disconnected Undesirable Effects (UDEs). This tool reveals the limiting assumptions sustaining the conflict and provides a strategic starting point for designing targeted, systemic solutions. Resolving the core conflict enables breakthrough innovation, leading to faster project delivery, optimized resource use, and improved alignment across all phases of infrastructure development.
Develop a systemic, visual, and sequential strategy for implementing change.
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Key Deliverable: CCC + PRT + TT with Action Plan
Module Four: External Constraint in Systemic Innovation and Educational Entrepreneurship
In construction and infrastructure, the concept of the External Constraint, drawn from Goldratt’s It’s Not Luck, highlights the need to align marketing, sales, and operations around delivering exceptional value to all stakeholders. Using the Decalogue Management Methodology and Theory of Constraints, organizations can identify the market limitations holding them back, surface the underlying assumptions, and craft “unrefusable offers”—value propositions so compelling they remove customer resistance. This approach encourages a systemic view of the entire value network and ensures that promised value can be delivered reliably, enabling innovation, stronger partnerships, and sustainable growth.
Aim: Align innovation with market needs and design an “unrefusable offer.
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Module Five: Project Phase
Build and launch a working education startup or transformation initiative. Project Types may include, Ed-tech platform, micro-school, credentialing system, curriculum innovation, etc.
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What Counts as a PIP? A PIP must:
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The program is divided into 4 learning modules (8 months), followed by a 4-month applied entrepreneurial project to create and launch an industry-relevant solution.
It can be hard to know what financial help is available to you as a student.
Further information about the variety of options that can help fund your studies and maximise the money available to you is available on our funding your studies section.
While there are no compulsory additional costs associated with this course, there may be general additional costs that you may incur as a student. A list of the sort of costs you might expect can be found on our fees and finance section.
We award limited scholarships to local and international students on the basis of academic excellence, personal circumstances or economic hardship.
Upon successful completion of all modules and final project, participants receive:
Postgraduate Certificate in Education Industry Sector Innovation & Entrepreneurship with specialization in the Decalogue Management Methodology and TOC Thinking Processes
The final project, Profitable Innovation Project (PIP), offers participants the opportunity to design, develop, and deliver a validated education-sector innovation that solves a meaningful systemic constraint, with real-world engagement. The project must demonstrate evidence of validation and traction
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We’re here to provide everything you need to make the most of your time with us, ensuring you not only excel in your studies, but also step confidently into the world of graduate employment.
The programme is underpinned by the research expertise of world-leading academics in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, digitally enabled business models, circular economy, and sustainability.
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