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BUSDEV 711
: Business in a Changing World2022 Quarter Two (1224)
Examines the implications of disruptive technologies such as AI, blockchain and deep learning. Focuses on enabling managers to understand various disruptive trends such as aging populations, global shifts in economic power and urbanisation. Analytical tools, concepts and perspectives are provided which help managers analyse and put forward recommendations on how to navigate disruptive trends and technologies.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
102
BUSDEV 712
: Financial Management2022 Quarter Four (1228)
Develops an understanding of the financial implications of the decisions managers make and methods for ensuring clear communication of those decisions to various primary and secondary stakeholders. Fundamental techniques and tools required to manage finances and accounts are examined including assessing business feasibility, identifying suitable sources of financing and effectively communicating financial performance information.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 765, 775
103
BUSDEV 713
: Sustainable Value Chains2022 Quarter Three (1226)
Explores the reasons for creating value for multiple stakeholders, while striking a balance between growth and sustainability in private and public organisations. Examines the ways in which sustainable value is created through effective and efficient operations, information systems, and supply chain management. Focuses on process design for productivity and sustainability, particularly in uncertain and complex business contexts.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 766, 776
104
BUSDEV 715
: Contemporary Marketing2022 Quarter One (1222)
Explores highly dynamic business environments and how ongoing digital transformation creates dramatic changes in the role of marketing. Develops an understanding of how collaboration with various stakeholders (e.g. customers, partners and competitors) can create and sustain value. Focuses on the theory and practice of contemporary marketing.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 762, 772
105
BUSDEV 721
: Innovation Management and Strategy2022 Quarter Three (1226)
Examines various sources of innovation and the capabilities, processes and challenges of managing innovation and embedding it across an organisation. Focuses on the process of formulating innovation strategy and common elements of innovation strategies.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
106
BUSDEV 722
: Product Management2022 Quarter One (1222)
Considers the product manager’s role in developing and leading product strategy, managing a product portfolio, and helping to foster innovation. Develops capabilities to foster collaboration between functions, manage projects, develop persuasive business cases, and manage products throughout their lifecycle.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
107
BUSDEV 723
: New Product Development Processes2022 Quarter Two (1224)
Develops the knowledge and capabilities to lead new product development processes and launch products into the market. Examines practices for customer insight, design, prototyping, product planning, and go-to-market strategies.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
108
BUSDEV 724
: Designing for Sustainability2022 Quarter Four (1228)
Addresses challenges in designing for sustainability, including lifetime and disposal costs, environmental and social impacts, compliance issues, and tensions between corporate responsibility and profit generation. Explores contemporary topics like eco-innovation, circular economy, and social enterprise.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
109
BUSDEV 780
: Personal and Team Leadership2022 Quarter Two (1224)
Focuses on developing personal and team leadership capabilities within complex, uncertain and creative business contexts. Provides tools and techniques to develop leadership capabilities and self-awareness. Engages students in personal development experiences which enable them to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses and encourages approaches to leadership that are well-suited to current and future work contexts.
Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSDEV 711-715, 721-724, 731-734, 741-744
110
BUSDEV 781
: Managing Collaborative Projects2022 Quarter Three (1226)
Focuses on managers’ responsibilities and challenges when leading, organising and working within collaborative projects. Explores and evaluates various distributed collaboration tools used to establish and manage project teams. Planning, control, and execution models for business development projects are reviewed and critiqued. Develops skills in the facilitation and effective management of complex collaborations and project team-dynamics within and beyond organisational boundaries.
Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSDEV 711-715, 721-724, 731-734, 741-744
111
BUSHRM 710
: Consultancy Practice2022 Quarter One (1222)
Develops the tools and frameworks required to engage in consultancy work. Engages students in problem framing, identifying and employing appropriate methodologies, and developing and presenting solutions to specific problems. Considers the dynamics of client-consultant relationships.
Prerequisite: BUSMGT 724, 751, 761, 762, with a B average or higher
112
BUSHRM 711
: Consultancy Project for HRM2022 Quarter One (1222)
A research-informed consultancy project based on a human resource management internship with a company or other appropriate organisation with written and oral reports of the findings.
Prerequisite: BUSMGT 724, 751, 761, 762, with a B average or higher
113
BUSINESS 704
: Quantitative Research Methods2022 Semester One (1223)
Students will become familiar with underlying theory and current best practice in quantitative research through discussion and application of topics including measurement, design (including survey design), and computer-based data analysis.
Prerequisite: BUSINESS 710
Restriction: MKTG 703, 704
Restriction: MKTG 703, 704
114
BUSINESS 705
: Qualitative Research Methods2022 Semester Two (1225)
Students will become familiar with current theory and practice as well as methodological debates in the use of qualitative methodologies, including ethnography, case studies, archival research, participant observation, interview and focus group methods, as well as transcription and analysis. A workshop on coding qualitative data will be included.
Prerequisite: BUSINESS 710 or PSYCH 744
Restriction: MKTG 703, 704
Restriction: MKTG 703, 704
115
BUSINESS 705
: Qualitative Research Methods2022 Semester One (1223)
Students will become familiar with current theory and practice as well as methodological debates in the use of qualitative methodologies, including ethnography, case studies, archival research, participant observation, interview and focus group methods, as well as transcription and analysis. A workshop on coding qualitative data will be included.
Prerequisite: BUSINESS 710 or PSYCH 744
Restriction: MKTG 703, 704
Restriction: MKTG 703, 704
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BUSINESS 710
: Conducting Research2022 Semester One (1223)
The pursuit of new knowledge requires the ability to recognise and design appropriate and robust research studies. Students explore the principles and practices of research design, including the fundamentals of where knowledge comes from; if and to what degree we can be certain about our findings; the ethics of research activities; and how a topic might be investigated from multiple approaches and philosophical perspectives.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
117
BUSINFO 700
: Analysis of Business Problems2022 Quarter Two (1224)
Develops a managerial perspective on the use of small and big data in problem identification, analysis and decision-making. Explores big data strategies and develops an understanding of the business and industry context in which analytics professionals operate and how different parts of organisations interact.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
118
BUSINFO 701
: Business Analytics Tools2022 Quarter Three (1226)
Develops skills in programming and business intelligence applications using the most commonly applied software and freeware. Provides insights into data wrangling and focuses on using tools for problem-solving, including their application in a variety of business settings.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
119
BUSINFO 702
: Information Management2022 Quarter Three (1226)
Develops skills in the use of contemporary data management tools and the DataOps ecosystem to optimise the efficient storage of data. Emphasises data stewardship, including data governance and related ethical considerations. Explores behavioural, strategic and social issues related to data management software and tools to create agile data organisations.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
120
BUSINFO 703
: Data Visualisation for Business2022 Quarter Four (1228)
Develops skills in unsupervised machine learning techniques, e.g., cluster analysis, factor analysis, and text mining, which enable unstructured and structured data to be leveraged to provide insights. Uses storytelling and visualisation techniques to translate data patterns in order to inform managerial decision-making.
Prerequisite: BUSINFO 700
121
BUSINFO 704
: Predictive Business Analytics2022 Quarter Four (1228)
Provides insights into the most commonly used supervised machine learning techniques, e.g., linear regression, logistic regression, random forest techniques, neural networks. Applies these techniques to model data for predicting relevant events. Addresses caveats of the techniques and how to evaluate model validity and outcomes.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
122
BUSINFO 705
: Decision Analytics2022 Quarter Two (1224)
Explores how business analytics can be used to improve business processes and decisions. The link between quantitative models and qualitative processes is explicitly explored. Decision biases are considered in the context of decision modelling. Monte Carlo simulation and optimisation are among the decision tools taught.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
123
BUSINFO 706
: Customer and Market Insights2022 Quarter One (1222)
Develops customer and market insight capabilities through the use of machine learning applications such as prospect selection, churn modelling, customer segmentation and attribution modelling. Focuses on the use of CRM data and explores the contributions that survey data can make. Explores campaign management and other aspects of implementing the results of analytical projects.
Prerequisite: BUSINFO 704
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BUSINFO 707
: Digital Marketing and Analytics2022 Quarter One (1222)
Synthesises academic marketing research findings with previously taught knowledge about analytics, the digital channel, marketing planning and practice in order to attain marketing strategic goals. Enables students to critically and independently evaluate alternative analytical techniques, and apply these insights to formulating solutions to challenges involving, for example web scraping, network analyses, google analytics and techniques such as text mining and cluster analysis.
Prerequisite: BUSINFO 704
125
BUSINFO 708
: Supply Chain Optimisation2022 Quarter One (1222)
Uses key analytic modelling techniques to analyse and optimise supply chains. Topics include facility location, network design, and general logistics. Key trade-offs are explored, including that difference between efficiency and effectiveness. Uncertainty is modelled and shown to be key in supply chain design.
Prerequisite: BUSINFO 705