BMGT4072S Technology Mgt and Innovation

Academic Year 2023/2024

Purpose and Overarching Content
This module focuses on how organizations use technology and innovation to position themselves strategically. For this purpose, this module is practice-oriented, with several opportunities for interaction and real case discussions. The approach followed is mostly inductive, i.e. students are guided towards the conception of a general theory starting from specific, real business situations about firms facing the challenges of managing innovation and technology.
Technology Management & Innovation helps students to integrate and apply key management, innovation, strategy, and research competencies. The module aims at developing advanced managerial skills that are fundamental to navigate highly dynamic and turbulent industry environments, where the “rules of the game” are continuously mutating, and what represented a key strength yesterday might be a struggling problem of tomorrow. The module is also expected to strengthen your teamwork and creative skills.
This module is essentially composed of two intertwined parts. The first part aims at providing students with fundamental notions about technology strategy. Students are thus exposed to basic technology & innovation concepts such as industry specificities, core competencies, complementary assets, technology adoption, different types of innovation. Then, the second part covers more advanced topics which become particularly relevant when firms considered are large (e.g. multinational enterprises). This includes how to ensure a long-run survival when external environmental conditions change (dynamic capabilities), how to properly balance today's needs with tomorrow's demand (ambidexterity), how to set and maintain a dominant design (network effects), how to protect innovation when intellectual property tools are ineffective (low IPR regimes), how to successfully establish a climate of "cyber-hygiene" (managerial cybersecurity), how to benefit from ideas that originate out of the traditional organizational boundaries (open innovation).

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What will I learn?

Learning Outcomes:

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.

Indicative Module Content:

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.)

How will I learn?

Student Effort Type	Hours
Lectures	20
Specified Learning Activities	80
Autonomous Student Learning	150
Total	250

Am I eligible to take this module?

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.

How will I be assessed?

Assessment Strategy

Description	Timing	Open Book Exam	Component Scale	Must Pass Component	% of Final Grade
Assignment: 10% participation	Unspecified	n/a	Graded	No	10
Examination: Exam	Unspecified	No	Graded	No	60
Group Project: Group assignment for case studies	Unspecified	n/a	Graded	No	30

Carry forward of passed components
No

What happens if I fail?

Remediation Type	Remediation Timing
Repeat	Within Two Trimesters

Assessment feedback

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Associated Staff

Name	Role
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

When is this module offered?


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