Programme of Study Catalogue

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.
Examine and discuss the impetus for new ways of working across infrastructure, processes, people and culture and sustainability in own organisation.
Critically evaluate approaches to systems thinking, knowledge/data management and programme management.
Critically evaluate models of change management.
Analyse drivers of change that impact on their own organisation.
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, Kaizan, 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 the MBA Executive/SLMDA and MBA programmes and specifically the Leadership & Personal Development; Financial Strategy & Business Operations and Corporate & International Strategies modules. As a core module for the MBA Executive/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/Seminars
Hours: 24
Intended Group size: Cohort

Workshops/Tutorials
Contact hours: 6
Intended Group size: Cohort or variable size groups

Guided independent study
Hours: 170

Assessment:

001 A report or work artefact(s) & critical reflective commentary; equivalent to 4,000 words; end of term 3 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Ian McGregor-Brown
Level - 7
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 7T3