MGMT223-16S2 (C) Semester Two 2016

Innovation Management

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 11 July 2016
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 24 July 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 October 2016

Description

This course introduces the theories and practices of innovation management. The course examines areas including the role of innovation for growth and wealth creation, effective innovation processes and the associated management issues, and the characteristics of innovative organisations.

Relationship to Other Courses
This course is a core component of the B.Com major in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, as well as an option in other B.Com (and potentially other) undergraduate majors. It contributes to a B.Com degree by highlighting the centrality of innovative orientation to the well-being of business, organisations, and individuals.

Workload
The course represents 150 hours of learning, of which the timetabled classes are but one component. Students will also need to complete the weekly course readings in order to do well in the exam, and will need to apply their learning to the major Innovation Project.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students completing this course will be able to:
  • Understand the role of innovation for growth and wealth creation.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of innovative organisations.
  • Apply creativity models to assist the creative front end of innovation.
  • Demonstrate a broad view of innovation including business models, disruptive innovation, open innovation, and innovation networks.
  • Assemble and critique key elements of a business case for innovation.
  • Outline what makes an effective innovation process.
  • Debate approaches to managing knowledge and intellectual property in innovation.
  • Integrate and apply their knowledge of innovation management to a practical innovation project.

    BCom Learning Goals
    1) Graduates can demonstrate advanced knowledge of their selected subject major, informed by the broader context of commerce.
    The course provides essential foundations in the subject areas of innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship, which are developed further in 300-level courses.
    2) Graduates are able to use analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to address specific problems.
    The major Innovation Project develops and applies these skills to meeting a defined innovation need for a client organisation.
    3) Graduates can understand issues from a range of ethical, global and multicultural perspectives.
    The course takes account of these aspects in its coverage of social entrepreneurship and in considering internationalisation of innovation.
    4) Graduates are able to communicate effectively both orally and in written form.
    This course develops these skills through the group work for the project, the project presentation, and preparation of the written project report.

Prerequisites

(1) MGMT100; and (2) A further 30 points from Commerce subjects

Timetable Note

There are no timetabled tutorials. Student groups will need to meet at least weekly to complete the Weekly Project Submissions and the Innovation Project.

Course Coordinator

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Weekly Project Submissions 15% Weekly Project Submissions
Innovation Project 11 Oct 2016 35% Innovation Project
Final Examination 50% Final Examination


Weekly Project Submissions
For this item of assessment, groups are required to submit week-by-week to the relevant forum on Learn a first draft of how they will apply the topic of the class to the client project they are working on. Details of what is required for these submissions will be posted in a document available on Learn. Each submission will be graded on a scale from 1 to 3. This item of assessment is not available for aegrotat consideration.

Innovation Project
This project provides the opportunity to undertake several key phases of the innovation process on behalf of an existing business or organisation. The project is undertaken by groups of students, and is to devise, detail and articulate next steps for a new direction, new class of product/service, or other strategic innovation for the client organisation. Each group is to present its report to the clients during the session on 11 October, and to submit its written report by the same date.

Detailed requirements will be posted on Learn. These will include stipulations for each student to itemise their individual contributions to the project and to evaluate those of their fellow group members.

Final Examination
This will be held in the Examinations Period and will be a closed book exam lasting 2 hours. It will relate to the whole course and will consist of two parts:
Part A: Multiple choice questions testing knowledge and understanding of the course content.
Part B: Written short answer questions based on interpreting cases in the course text using material from the lectures.

Grading
The course is graded using the standard University scale. Marks are not standardised.
Grade cut-offs may be adjusted as part of the moderation process.

Textbooks / Resources

Additional materials will be posted on Learn.

Notes

Class Representative
A class representative may be asked to volunteer in the first few weeks of class.  Any problems with the course can be raised with the class rep. The class representative will take up any issues raised by class members with the lecturer concerned as they occur.

Departmental Academic Policies
The Department assumes that you have read this document.

You should also read the General Course and Examination Regulations

Dishonest Practice
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty.  All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person, who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the university.

IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.

Coversheets - Group and Individual

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $759.00

International fee $3,125.00

* 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 Management, Marketing and Tourism .

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