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FMBA5010: Leading Business Innovation

2025 unit information

This unit aims to provide the skills by which students analyse business innovation in different companies and provide recommended strategies for improvement. Topics covered include types of innovation, the S-Curve, idea generation, recognising opportunities, moving innovation to market, enhancing creativity, and the role of the leader in innovation. This unit provides students with an opportunity to learn and apply a variety of innovation tools and apply them directly to contemporary organisational contexts.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Business (Business School)

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Management Education
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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SMBA6114
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Describe an integrative framework for leading business innovation derived from class materials.
  • LO2. Analyze business innovation issues taking into account strategy, processes, capabilities and limitations.
  • LO3. Collaboratively apply conceptual models from class materials, and develop potential solutions to leading business innovatorion problems.
  • LO4. Persuasively communicate, explain, and defend a position on issues in business innovation

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Intensive July - August 2024
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Intensive August 2025
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Intensive July - August 2020
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney
Intensive July - August 2021
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney
Intensive July - August 2021
Block mode Remote
Intensive July - August 2022
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney
Intensive July - August 2022
Block mode Remote
Intensive July - August 2023
Block mode Castlereagh St, Sydney

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