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SBUS46070

Academic Year 2024/2025

Digital Innovation and Strategy (SBUS46070)

Subject:
Business
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Professor Joe Peppard
Trimester:
Autumn&Spring&Summer(separate)
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Many companies prioritize innovation as the primary driver of significant growth. However, senior leaders recognize that effectively managing innovation is a complex undertaking, posing challenges for many organizations. To enhance their innovative capabilities, companies must embark on a strategic journey to establish the requisite framework consisting of appropriate mindsets and capabilities.

This module offers guidance on developing your innovation framework to facilitate this journey. Innovation encompasses various facets across the organization, including digital innovation in products, services, experiences, channels, processes, and entire business models. Central to this endeavor is cultivating the right mindsets—the amalgamation of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors—among stakeholders to drive innovation and organizational transformation forward. While processes provide the structure for innovation, it is ultimately people who drive its execution.

At the heart of digital transformation lies innovation, which drives the creation of new or enhanced products, services, processes, customer experiences, and business models through the integration of digital technologies. Innovations not only inform an organization's digital strategy but also uncover both operational and strategic opportunities. This module begins by examining innovation fundamentals, the innovation process, and essential tools and frameworks. It then delves into the content and methodology of digital strategy to outline a guiding framework. Additionally, the module explores strategies for fostering an innovation ecosystem within the organization, collaborating with startups, incubating ideas, and scaling innovations.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

• Knowledge of the innovation process and how it relates to digital;
• Understanding the Innovation Journey Framework, including strengths and weaknesses, as a means to drive digital innovation and organisation transformation;
• Understand how to build an innovation ecosystem;
• Applying tools for developing an innovation landscape that guides opportunities for innovation across current propositions and business models as well as future ones;
• Familiarity with some of the key tools and techniques of innovation;
• An understanding of how technological advances and an organizations strategy co-evolve;
• Recognising and avoiding the innovation portfolio and decision-making traps that hamper innovation performance;
• A practical understanding of how to build a strategy for digital; and
• An understanding of the life-cycle of digital investments and the implications for their management.
• Know-how to establish an appropriate governance structure for innovation.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

16

Specified Learning Activities

40

Autonomous Student Learning

60

Total

116


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The teaching style adopted will be participant-centered. There is a wealth of experience in the room and to capitalize on this, engagement will be highly interactive to ensure that participants learn from each other. The role of the faculty members is to provide a safe environment for sharing and to provide a structured approach to learning. The module is delivered through the use of materials (cases, readings, videos, podcasts, exercises, breakout discussions) and the orchestration of the conversation around these materials. Given the highly interactive nature of the session, it is essential that all required pre-module preparation is completed in advance of the classroom sessions.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): pre-module Week 6 Graded No

20

Yes
Participation in Learning Activities: partiicipation Week 7 Graded No

10

Yes
Assignment(Including Essay): post-module Week 15 Graded No

70

Yes

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Written feedback to be provided within 20 days of assignment deadline