MBAD666-18X (C) General non-calendar-based 2018

Innovation in Business

This occurrence is not offered in 2018

10 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 8 October 2018
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 2 November 2018

Description

This course will provide you with a fundamental awareness and understanding of the role that innovation plays in the business, as well as the constructs of innovation that need to be understood. This will equip you with the understanding and skills to define, manage and apply the needed actions that will take innovation beyond an abstract concept. Innovation will provide you with the "what" that will be used in the "how" of your strategy so that action may actually lead to advantage.

Advantage, relevance or survival lies at the heart of the existence of any business, whether for profit, or whether it is a public entity.  Innovation is needed to deal with threats to the existence of the business, or to changes in its environment.  Although many organisations would agree to the essence of innovation, the concept and especially how to make it happen, is often not well understood.  This leads to well-meant lip service being paid to innovation without achieving results that make a real difference.

This course will provide you with a fundamental awareness and understanding of the role that innovation plays in the business, as well as the constructs of innovation that need to be understood.  This will equip you with the understanding and skills to define, manage and apply the needed actions that will take innovation beyond an abstract concept.  Innovation will provide you with the “what” that will be used in the “how” of your strategy so that action will actually lead to gaining a competitive advantage.

Learning Outcomes

  • Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the role of innovation in establishing economic, business, social or technological survival within the organisation.
  • Have an in-depth understanding of how innovation is used to deal with competitive or change pressures on the organisation.
  • Be aware of and understand the constructs of innovation as well as its socio-technical impacts that often derail strategic intentions.
  • Be able to use structures methodologies to determine innovative actions.
  • Have an in-depth understanding of appropriate innovation and knowledge/technology transfer between donor/source and recipient/user entities.
  • Understand the close complementary relationship between innovation and organisational strategy.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Timetable Note

Block 1: 0900-1700 Friday 12 & Saturday 13 October 2018

Block 2: 0900-1700 Friday 19 & Saturday 20 October 2018

Course Coordinator

Piet Beukman

Associate Professor Piet Beukman
Director: Engineering Management Programme  
Tel 021 245 1460
Email: piet.beukman@canterbury.ac.nz

Assessment

1:  Group: 25% Secondary research                           | Due 25 October 0800

2.A: Indiv 25% Secondary research                            | Due 31 October 0800  

2.B: Indiv 50% Innovation advice/innovation            | Due 6 November 0800


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Special Consideration

Special Consideration Application

Textbooks / Resources

No prescibed textbook.

Participants will be given a set of specially selected readings relating to the above

Recommended “must reads” for this course:
• Adams, Rob, (2002) A Good Hard Kick in the Ass: Basic Training for Entrepreneurs, Crown Business, NY
• Drucker, P. (1999)  Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Practice and Principles,  Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford.
• Hamel, G (2000), Leading the Revolution,  HBS Press, Boston.
• Moore, G (2002), Crossing the Chasm, Collins, NY

Other recommended readings – see list provided.

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,536.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Master of Business Administration Programme .

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