MGMT20146 - Innovation and Design Thinking

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Organisations need to respond to changes in the external environment to maintain their currency and to meet the needs of their customers and stakeholders. In this unit, you will focus on understanding the range of design choices available to organisations given the key contingency factors of environment, size, technology and work systems, and business strategy. The unit will enhance your ability to analyse these contingency factors, develop a range of structural options and recommend practical innovation systems for organisations using a range of tools and perspectives, including design thinking and disruptive innovation that assists in the creation of new markets and value networks. The unit will improve your capability in analysing and synthesising information to develop innovative solutions that improve business or organisational performance. You will also consider the factors that can affect new systems and processes including the organisational and human resources and the stakeholder support required for successful implementation.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Only students enrolled in CL20 Master of Business Administration will be permitted to enrol in this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2024

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 40%
2. Presentation 30%
3. Report 30%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 87.50% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 80% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Unit coordinators
Feedback
Students were happy with the unit content, delivery and assessments.
Recommendation
It is recommended that distance students continue to be offered face-to-face online Zoom sessions to complement other online resources.
Action Taken
Students in T2 2019 were offered face-to-face online zoom sessions. These were delivered weekly. Additional 1-1 sessions were provided where a student(s) were unable to attend the weekly session. This added to the overall student experience and should be continued.
Source: Informal feedback from students
Feedback
Weekly zoom sessions were seen by the students as a valuable addition to their learning. The regular engagement enabled a greater understanding of the unit materials, including how best to approach the assessment tasks.
Recommendation
The weekly group zoom sessions should continue. For small cohorts students should be offered the opportunity to engage in 1-1 zoom sessions with their lecturer/ tutor. However, creating the expectation that this is standard practice would be logistically difficult for larger cohorts.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Informal Feedback from students
Feedback
Weekly discussion posts via the Moodle news feed highlighting the key points from the lectures were seen as a valuable aid to student comprehension and understanding
Recommendation
Weekly news feeds via Moodle should be developed and issued to students. These should provide a summary of the important points from the lecture and unit content.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Informal Feedback from students
Feedback
The students saw value emerging from current examples of innovation in the weekly reading and lecture materials. This allowed them to situated their learning in context of current trends and events.
Recommendation
The lecture content, the reading materials and the assessment tasks should be updated regularly to accommodate current and emerging trends in the areas of innovation and design thinking.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Enrollment number data T2 2018 and T2 2019
Feedback
Whilst unit enrollments have increased from T2 2018 to T2 2019 work needs to be done to increase student numbers
Recommendation
Ascertain how the unit might overtly be linked to other units in a study plan to build enrollments
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Critically analyse the range of structures that organisations can adopt based on key contingency factors that include the nature of the environment, the technology, organisational size and work systems available and the strategic direction of the business
  2. Assess business information that provides insight into innovation and entrepreneurial strategies that lead to the development of new business processes, products, services and markets
  3. Develop and evaluate innovative business solutions that improve business or organisational processes using established principles, business models and emerging approaches such as disruptive strategy and design thinking
  4. Analyse and reflect on the managerial leadership capabilities required to implement innovation and business processes and or new products or services
  5. Interpret and transmit knowledge, skills and ideas regarding innovative business proposals to internal and external stakeholders that will assist in securing resources and managerial support required for effective implementation.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
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