As already announced, the content of the career-integrated MBA Degree programme at the Hochschule Niederrhein will be realigned for the winter semester 2020/21. Not only will the content of all modules in the Degree programme be updated and aligned even more consistently with the aim of the programme, which is to prepare students for management positions, but new modules will also be integrated into the curriculum. One of these new modules is explicitly designed to address current issues in leadership and management.

Managers at all levels are required to manage and shape their business in such a way that the respective goals are achieved and their own area of responsibility is positioned for the future. In order to be able to meet this demand, managers must also constantly deal with new methods and concepts from the areas of leadership and management and examine their potential. In order to be able to do this even better, a new module has now been added to the career-integrated MBA Degree programme in Leadership & Management at the Hochschule Niederrhein. Starting in the winter semester, it will cover three current topics from business and society. Specifically, the following topics are planned:

• Agile leadership: In an interactive way, students experience how leaders should act in agile settings. They will gain deeper insights, for example, into how they develop learning organizations as impulse generators and supporters of change processes. Susanne Biehler, Agile Coach & Senior Consultant at Maera GmbH in Cologne, will convey the content.

• New Work: Students will not only learn what the workplace of the future should look like, but also what basic attitude must be in place to create a work environment in which rigid structures are overcome and flexible, inspiring and productive work is made possible. Sebastian Pukies, one of the New Work experts at Canon Deutschland GmbH in Krefeld, will also lead through this part of the module using his company as an example.

• AI Design Sprint: Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is already having a dramatic impact on businesses; there are more and more opportunities to use AI in traditional businesses and startups. Using Google Venture's proven Design Sprint methodology, students will learn how they can use AI to improve their businesses. The workshop will be led by Jonas Wenke, service designer at Copenhagen-based AI design consulting firm 33A.

For more information on the new module and the Degree programme as a whole, please visit www.mba.hs-niederrhein.de and attend the info sessions mentioned there, to which we cordially invite you.