Postgraduate Course: Management Consultancy in Practice: Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CMSE11519)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | Building on knowledge and understanding developed in previous courses relating to innovation management in organisations and the establishment and growth of new ventures, this course provides a hands-on opportunity for students to conduct a consultancy project in innovation management in established organisation or in venture development and growth.
In this course, students engage with real business clients to apply the theoretical concepts and frameworks that they have accumulated in the first semester to address practical challenge in a business setting. |
| Course description |
The course will:
Develop students' knowledge and skills in conducting management consultancy projects;
Enhance student's capabilities to recognise, assess and evaluate problems and to articulate and deliver appropriate solutions;
Enhance the students' knowledge on the practice of innovation through exposing the students to the 'messiness' of innovation problems in a real setting and/or to explore a growth-related issue facing a host organisation to develop workable solutions to present to management.
Students will have to apply their knowledge of theories, concepts and frameworks of innovation management/entrepreneurship and venture creation that they have been exposed to in the first semester to solve a real business challenge.
The students will have to apply their knowledge of theories, concepts and frameworks of innovation management/entrepreneurship and venture creation that they have been exposed to in the first semester to solve a real business challenge.
The projects will be defined around a specific innovation/venture growth problem and will be defined together with clients from private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Outline content:
-Principles of Management Consulting
-Managing innovation in organisational settings
-Venture growth and development in practice
-Conducting business-related research
Student Learning Experience:
Tutorial/seminar hours represent the minimum total live hours - online or in-person - a student can expect to receive on this course. These hours may be delivered in tutorial/seminar, lecture, workshop or other interactive whole class or small group format. These live hours may be supplemented by pre-recorded lecture material for students to engage with asynchronously.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
150
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 15,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
132 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
Seminar/Tutorial hrs are the min total live hrs, online or in-person, students can expect to receive
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
30% coursework (individual) - assesses all course Learning Outcomes
70% coursework (group) - assesses all course Learning Outcomes |
| Feedback |
Formative feedback:
There will be formative feedback exercise throughout the semester (project supervision meetings) providing students with feedback on progress towards skills and knowledge outcomes.
Summative feedback:
Summative feedback on assessments through Learn for both assignments. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply relevant theories, framework and concepts to deliver appropriate solutions in a particular context.
- Critically evaluate challenges involved in innovation management/venture growth in practice and with alternative solutions.
- Enhance interactive skills with business clients.
- Develop skills and toolkits for conducting a consultancy project.
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Reading List
Stroh, L.K., Johnson, H.H. (2006) The basic principles of effective consulting, Lawrence Erlbaum.
Tidd, J. and Bessant, J.R. (2013) Managing innovation: integrating technological, market and organizational change, Chichester: Wiley
Burke, G, Molian, D, Barrow, P and Clarke, E (2007) Growing your Business: A Handbook for Ambitious Owner-Managers, Routledge, Abingdon.
Goffin, K. and Mitchell, R. (2017) Innovation management: effective strategy and implementation, London: Palgrave |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Cognitive and subject specific skills:
Analyse innovation/growth challenges in a particular context;
Generate and assess different solutions to innovation/growth-related problems.
Transferable skills:
Engage in critical evaluation of innovation/growth practise in a particular context;
Search, assess, utilise, critically interpret and present information from a range of sources;
Interact effectively with a client: solicit requirements, negotiate solutions, deliver and present solutions. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Hajar Mozaffar
Tel: (0131 6)51 5007
Email: Hajar.Mozaffar@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lauren Millson
Tel: (0131 6)51 3013
Email: Lauren.Millson@ed.ac.uk |
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