2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5997M Organising for Strategy and Innovation in the Digital World

15 creditsClass Size: 70

Module manager: John Palfreyman
Email: J.Palfreyman@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Module replaces

LUBS5217M Globalization of Innovation

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

Digital technology is at the core of 21st century organisations as they seek to strategise and innovate. For example, digital technologies have potential to offer superior value creation in complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable environments. Digital technologies are also allowing organisations to be more open and inclusive within and beyond their boundaries, reaching ever growing crowds and communities of individuals that can be located anywhere in the world and that together can create knowledge and innovate.
Therefore, business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs need to know and understand the potential value, and also possible pitfalls, of using digital technologies for organising for strategy and innovation.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the module, participants will be able to:
1. Critically evaluate diverse uses of digital technology types and their use for organising.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of diverse types and characteristics of open forms of organising for strategy and innovation through digital technology use.
3. Examine and evaluate specific, diverse forms of organising in the digital world such as communities, crowds, and decentralised autonomous organisations and their related outcomes.
4. Critically apply the knowledge acquired to provide recommendations on the relevance and successful development of strategy and innovation with new forms of organising enabled by digital technologies.
5. Work as a team and present and communicate their subject knowledge and topical recommendations to a panel of professionals.

Skills outcomes
The module will introduce Analytical, Communication, Critical Thinking, Leadership and Team Working development skills.

Syllabus

This module will cover open forms of organising for strategy and innovation, including key characteristics, typologies, and processes to learn how to extract values from such open forms of organising.
To do so, the module will bridge classical and state-of-art literature on information technologies and systems, open organising, strategising, swarm/collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, online communities, and decentralised autonomous organisations. This enables the module to sharpen participants' understanding on new ways of strategising and innovating, and achieve a key objective to provide participants with theoretical knowledge that underlines successful strategies to leverage digital technologies for organising. Another key objective is to develop a critical understanding of how this knowledge can be utilised in practice in various businesses and industries.
Digital technology is at the core of 21st century organisations as they seek to strategise and innovate. Such technologies are allowing organisations to be more open and inclusive within and beyond their boundaries, reaching crowds and communities of individuals around the world that together can create knowledge and innovate. This module will sharpen participants’ understanding on new ways of strategising and innovating and achieve a key objective to provide participants with theoretical knowledge that underlines successful strategies to leverage digital technologies for organising.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	10	1.00	10.00
Lecture	10	2.00	20.00
Private study hours			120.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

Private study will consist of students completing set required and recommended reading, and where appropriate they will work on materials in preparation for workshops and group projects

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will receive feedback on coursework (group project) , during the practice presentation s. In workshops, groups will have the opportunity for more informal feedback from academic staff on their understanding of concepts, theories, examples, etc. being discussed.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1,500 word individual	70.00
Group Project	Groups of 5	30.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The resit for this module will be 100% by individual 2000-word project.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 16/08/2024 11:44:42

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