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Managing Organisations,

Innovation and Sustainability

Lecture 1: Introduction

Dr Ping-Jen Kao
Lecturer in Information Systems
Module Convenor

Dr Ping-Jen Kao

Contact details:
[email protected]

Office hours:
• Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00 @ Jubilee 350
• One-to-one meeting outside of these slots is
available. Please email to book an appointment.
Module Overview
Understanding Leveraging Managing
Review and
Knowledge and ICT-driven Innovation Organisations
Consolidation
Innovation and Sustainability Effectively

Week 3
Knowledge-intensive
Organisation

Week 4
Week 8
ICT-driven
Knowledge Creation
Organisational
in Teams
Week 1 Change
Introduction
Week 5 Week 9 Week 11
DT with AI, Robotics Project-based Revision, Q&A and
Week 2 and IoT Organisations Feedback
Knowledge and
Innovation Week 10
Week 6 HR and Knowledge
Revision Management
Systems

Week 7
DT and Sustainability
Essential and Recommended Readings

Core Textbook:
Newell, S., Scarbrough, H. and Swan, J.,
2009. Managing knowledge work and
innovation. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Recommended readings and case studies are


identified each week.
Lecture and Readings

Week 1 – Week 11

W1 Introduction W7 Digital Transformation and


Sustainability

W2 Knowledge and Innovation W8 Knowledge Creation in Teams


(chapter 1) (chapter 4)

W3 Knowledge-intensive W9 Project-Based Organisations


Organisations (chapter 2) (chapter 5)

W4 ICT-driven Organisational W10 Human Resource and Knowledge


Change (chapter 3) Management Systems (chapter 6&7)

W5 Digital Transformation with AI, W11 Revision, Q&A and Feedback


Robotics and IoT

W6 Revision Week
Learning Outcomes
• Systematically understand the role of knowledge and demonstrate
critical awareness of knowledge management and its influence on
continuing professional development.

• Critically assess the internal and external factors that drive business
excellence, innovation outcomes and sustainability in the global
economy.

• Comprehensively understand innovation management tools and


techniques that could be applied to enhance organisational
performance and address sustainability challenges.

• Critically identify complex organisational challenges and demonstrate


independent learning ability to propose novel solutions.
Module Assessment
A group presentation (30% of the final mark) – due on week 9 &10, T1
• Objective – to demonstrate reflective collective learning from workshops
exercises
• 5 people in a group
• Each group with 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes Q&A

An individual essay (70% of the final mark) – due on Jan. 2024


• Objective – to engage with relevant readings provided and discussed in the
module and apply theory into practice
• Word length – 2000 words
Module Schedule

Every week (except week 6)

• Lecture ( All together)


• Workshops (check your workshop
group)

READINGS MUST BE PREPARED IN


ADVANCE!
What Is Innovation?
Why Does Innovation Matter?
How Is Innovation Relevant to
Your Career?
Why Do Businesses Fail To Be
Innovative?
Innovation Dilemma?

What do you see in this figure?


Discuss with your classmates
and share it
Incumbent's Curse?

Incumbents in a specific product generation, often blinded by their success


or constrained by bureaucracy, may neglect to launch the subsequent
generation of innovative products.
What Do We Mean by Innovation

• Innovation is about new product ideas - IDEO Shopping Cart Video


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM (10 mins)

• In Pair:

• What does this video tell us about innovation?

• And management of innovation?


Design Thinking

Start here in Design Thinking

A new approach to innovation –


human-centred
Design Thinking

3 key phases—
that are recognised as iterative
rather than linear

• Inspire – define the challenge and


collect data (observation) to form
insights about what would be desirable

• Ideate – frame opportunities and


brainstorm to generate radical thinking

• Implement – in small steps,


experimenting to identify barriers to
new ideas (rapid software
development)
Link to Future Career
Next Week (Week 2)

• Read Chapter 1 of the textbook (CanvasUnits)

• Read Gunfire at Sea Case (MUST)


Q&A

Dr Ping-Jen Kao
Lecturer in Information Systems
[email protected]

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