Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Online

Module Offerings

7514UNIMBA-JAN-PAR

Aims

This module aims to enable students to identify and exploit opportunities to enhance performance and initiate transformational change within organisations. To achieve this, students will develop knowledge and skills in a range of related areas, including innovation, change management and digitalisation, and develop strategies to apply them to improve and transform their organisations The module also aims to provide students with an understanding of how to design and produce applied business research scholarly-practitioner projects. The module will support and provide foundations for the final element of the programme, the applied business consultancy project.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Identify and critically evaluate drivers of change, including opportunities to exploit digital technologies, to support the transformation of organisational strategy and processes
2.
Synthesise theory and best practice to develop a critical understanding of how organisations promote a culture of creativity and innovation
3.
Critically appraise and apply leadership strategies that manage change and innovation and enable digital transformation
4.
Demonstrate a critical awareness of recent theory and processes required to complete a practitioner led applied business project
5.
Evaluate and justify options related to the preparation of a practitioner led applied business project

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Digital trends and opportunities (including digitisation, big data, IoT and BI) Innovation concepts, processes and strategies (including open innovation and new product development) Change management theories and frameworks Drivers of change in organisations Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial leadership Sociotechnical theory Insider Business Research Systematic Literature Reviews – Meta Analysis Synthesising Results of Multiple Studies Using Secondary/On-Line Data The Foundations for Structuring and Evaluating Research Projects: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design and Analysis, Validity, Ethical Considerations.
Additional Information:part of the MBA programme

Assessments

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