MBE7062 - Innovation, Change and Enterprise

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Critically evaluate approaches to innovation.
Investigate and assess the value of their own organisations innovation practices.
Assess the impact of disruptive technologies on the strategy of their own organisation.
Critically evaluate models of change management.
Assess the value of ideas and change initiatives in own organisation and report on the impact of continuous improvement initiatives in their own organisation.
Present a case for change in their own organisation.

Content:

The module covers a wide ranging set of business leadership disciplines and specifically innovation, change, enterprise and risk management. Consideration will be given to a range of models suitable for leading innovation, change, enterprise and risk management including the RMI (radical, mixed and incremental) approaches to innovation; Kotter’s eight steps to change, Lewin’s unfreeze/change/re-freeze model, the change curve, Kaizen, Business Process Re-engineering, Stakeholder Mapping and SAF (Suitability, Acceptability, Feasibility) modelling.

These will be given due consideration in their own right but will be continually linked with other modules on SLMDA programme and specifically the Leadership & Personal Development; Financial Strategy & Business Operations and Corporate & International Strategies modules. As a core module for the SLMDA the module will expect students to consider core theories and models of innovation, change, enterprise and risk management to be applied to their own organisational working situation.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The sessions will be organised in 3 8-hour teaching blocks. Lectures will deliver core theoretical frameworks, followed by workshops and personal exercises for reflection and development. Workshops will be designed to support learners to be self-directed in additional research and with particular emphasis on research within their own employing organisation.

Lectures
Hours: 24
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Workshops/seminars (SLMDA only)
Hours: 16
Intended Group Size: Cohort or variable-size groups

Guided independent study
Hours: 160

Further details relating to assessment
Report or work artefact(s) and critical reflective commentary: as a core module for the SLMDA this module is designed for those either working for a sponsoring employer or for self-employed learners able to put learning into practice. As such, the assessments will need to demonstrate understanding and application to working practice. In a similar way, this module being an option for MBA and MA International Business programmes, the assessment / report should reflect on current and future working practices of organisations / businesses, chosen in line with the interests and future career choices of students.

SLMDA programme note: the parameters for the negotiated assessment methods in this and other modules of the programme have to ensure that the module learning outcomes will be attained and that relevant aspects of the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours described in the Apprenticeship Standard are demonstrated

Assessment:

001 Report; 4,000 word equiv.; end of term 3 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Ian McGregor-Brown
Level - 7
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered -

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