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Learning Outcomes:
On completing this module, students will be able to:
1. Recognize the key role that technology and technological change may have on industries and markets.
2. Distinguish the different types of innovation and understand which can be the related strategic implications.
3. Contextualize and explain technological change as both a threat and an opportunity for organizations.
4. Sense the external environment with the purpose of forecasting the disruptive technologies of the next future.
5. Engage in activities aimed at exploiting and profiting from innovation originated out of the focal organizational boundaries.
6. Acknowledge the most important managerial cybersecurity factors that may endanger organizations’ reputation, profitability, and even long-run survival.
7. Recognize the importance to foster also explorative activities aimed at ensuring a long-lasting competitive advantage.
8. Understand when reaching a given level of market share is essential and undertake concrete actions to rapidly increase diffusion, when that circumstance verifies.
Core Competences
Complementary Assets
Technology Adoption
Incremental, Modular, Architectural, and Radical Innovation
Organizational Adaptation
Technological Discontinuities
The Failure of the Incumbent
Managerial Cybersecurity
Dynamic Capabilities
Ambidexterity
Low IPR Regimes
Network Effects
Open Innovation
Sample case studies might incude:
For Network Effects: “Adobe systems incorporated” (Tripsas, M.)
- For Ambidexterity: “IBM network technology (Chapman Wood, R.)
- For Organizational Adaptation: “Organizational Revolution: The Radical
Transformation of Roche Italy” (Cappetta, R., Pistilli, L.)
- For Managerial Cybersecurity: “Cyber Breach at Target” (Srinivasan, S., Paine, L.,
Goyal, N.)
- For Dynamic Capabilities: “Transforming company culture at Amgen Italy” (Pistilli,
L., Pennarola, F.)
- For Open Innovation: “Houston We Have A Problem: NASA and Open Innovation
(A)” (Tushman, M., Lifshitz-Assaf, H. and Herman, K.)
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 20 |
Specified Learning Activities | 80 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 150 |
Total | 250 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment(Including Essay): Group assignment for case studies | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 30 |
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Exam (In-person): Examination | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 60 |
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Assignment(Including Essay): 10% participation | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 10 |
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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Repeat | Within Two Trimesters |
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Assoc Professor Dorota Piaskowska | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Christina Burke | Tutor |
Ms Michele Connolly Doran | Tutor |
Dr Luca Pistilli | Tutor |
Rachel Sim | Tutor |
Dr Tedi Skiti | Tutor |
Charlene Tan Puay Koon | Tutor |
Nigel Toh | Tutor |