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FMBA5011: Leading in a Digital World
2025 unit information
This unit aims to evaluate the main assumptions that underlie how technology is understood and employed by leaders and managers. Topics covered in this unit are current technological developments, such as artificial intelligence, big data, consumerisation of technology, the role of data and knowledge in management, the future of work, and digital disruption and transformation. This unit provides students with an opportunity to critically examine contemporary technology trends and their implications, with a view to unearth the lasting patterns by which technological innovation evolves and impacts the role of the manager, the worker, organisation and society more broadly.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Management Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. examine in a critical manner contemporary digital technology trends and their implications for organisations and people
- LO2. demonstrate a refined understanding of the complex inter-relationships among knowledge, technology and people in organisations
- LO3. analyse and demonstrate implications for managing people of novel workplace technologies
- LO4. effectively analyse business cases of IT in organisations and communicate your insights in collaborative team settings.
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Intensive August 2025
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Block mode | Castlereagh St, Sydney |
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