Program Overview

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Overview

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

• Academic unit: Management Education
• Credit points: 6
• Prerequisites: None
• Corequisites: None
• Prohibitions: SMBA6114
• Assumed knowledge: None
• Available to study abroad and exchange students: No

Teaching Staff

• Coordinator: Stefan Meisiek

Assessment

• Type: Assignment
  • Description: In class activities Presentation
  • Weight: 20%
  • Due: Multiple weeks
  • Length: 5 mins x 2
  • Outcomes assessed: LO3 LO4
• Type: Assignment
  • Description: Individual assignment Multimedia piece, written task
  • Weight: 30%
  • Due: Multiple weeks
  • Length: 500 words (or equivalent) x 3
  • Outcomes assessed: LO2 LO4
• Type: Participation
  • Description: Active Participation participation
  • Weight: 10%
  • Due: Ongoing
  • Length: ongoing
  • Outcomes assessed: LO2 LO3 LO4
• Type: Assignment
  • Description: Research report Report
  • Weight: 40%
  • Due: Week 09
  • Length: 3500 words
  • Outcomes assessed: LO1 LO2 LO4

Assessment Summary

• Participation: Active participation in case discussions and exercises.
• In-class activities: Students will work in groups on exercises related to learning material during class time. The task will be to apply the concepts from the learning material to solve a business innovation problem. The exercise ends with a brief group presentation of the solution, and the reasoning behind it.
• Individual assignment: Each student submits a brief explainer of a business innovation example/case/method that they found through research and that relates to a topic covered until that week. The format of this submission is a short media piece (podcast or similar).
• Research report: Students carry out a research project related to a core topic of leading business innovation. They pick one of the topics of the unit: innovation strategy, top management, experimentation, ideation, measures, process, leadership, teams, organisation, or ecosystems. They formulate a research question regarding the topic, collect data on a single innovation case or several cases for comparison, search additional literature, analyse their case with the help of learning material and the additional literature, and reach a conclusion relating their research to the unit as a whole.

Assessment Criteria

The University awards common result grades, set out in the Coursework Policy 2014 (Schedule 1).

• Result name: High distinction
  • Mark range: 85 - 100
  • Description: Awarded when you demonstrate the learning outcomes for the unit at an exceptional standard, as defined by grade descriptors or exemplars outlined by your faculty or school.
• Result name: Distinction
  • Mark range: 75 - 84
  • Description: Awarded when you demonstrate the learning outcomes for the unit at a very high standard, as defined by grade descriptors or exemplars outlined by your faculty or school.
• Result name: Credit
  • Mark range: 65 - 74
  • Description: Awarded when you demonstrate the learning outcomes for the unit at a good standard, as defined by grade descriptors or exemplars outlined by your faculty or school.
• Result name: Pass
  • Mark range: 50 - 64
  • Description: Awarded when you demonstrate the learning outcomes for the unit at an acceptable standard, as defined by grade descriptors or exemplars outlined by your faculty or school.
• Result name: Fail
  • Mark range: 0 - 49
  • Description: When you don’t meet the learning outcomes of the unit to a satisfactory standard.

Late Submission

In accordance with University policy, these penalties apply when written work is submitted after 11:59pm on the due date:

• Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date.
• After ten calendar days late, a mark of zero will be awarded.

Academic Integrity

The University expects students and staff to act ethically and honestly and will treat all allegations of academic integrity breaches seriously.

• Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and automated writing tools: You may only use generative AI and automated writing tools in assessment tasks if you are permitted to by your unit coordinator. If you do use these tools, you must acknowledge this in your work, either in a footnote or an acknowledgement section.

Learning Support

• Simple extensions: If you encounter a problem submitting your work on time, you may be able to apply for an extension of five calendar days through a simple extension.
• Special consideration: If exceptional circumstances mean you can’t complete an assessment, you need consideration for a longer period of time, or if you have essential commitments which impact your performance in an assessment, you may be eligible for special consideration or special arrangements.

Weekly Schedule

• Week 01: Creative Construction
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)
• Week 02: Innovation strategy
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)
• Week 03: The role of top management
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)
• Week 04: Business experimentation
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)
• Week 05: Linear Innovation Processes
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)
• Week 06: What leaders must do
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)
• Week 07: Creative teams
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)
• Week 08: Innovative organisations
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)
• Week 09: Building Ecosystems
  • Learning activity: Lecture (4 hr)

Learning Outcomes

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 innovation problems.
• LO4: Persuasively communicate, explain, and defend a position on issues in business innovation

Graduate Qualities

The graduate qualities are the qualities and skills that all University of Sydney graduates must demonstrate on successful completion of an award course.

• GQ1: Depth of disciplinary expertise
• GQ2: Critical thinking and problem solving
• GQ3: Oral and written communication
• GQ4: Information and digital literacy
• GQ5: Inventiveness
• GQ6: Cultural competence
• GQ7: Interdisciplinary effectiveness
• GQ8: Integrated professional, ethical, and personal identity
• GQ9: Influence

Outcome Map

Learning outcomes | Graduate qualities

• LO1 | GQ1 | GQ2 | GQ3 | GQ4 | GQ5 | GQ6 | GQ7 | GQ8 | GQ9

Responding to Student Feedback

This section outlines changes made to this unit following staff and student reviews.

• No changes have been made since this unit was last offered.

Additional Information

• Business School Policies
• Disclaimer: The University reserves the right to amend units of study or no longer offer certain units, including where there are low enrolment numbers.
• This unit of study outline was last modified on 20 Jun 2020.