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2023/2024 KAN-CCMVV4033U CASES in Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology
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| CASES in Strategic Management of Innovation and Technology |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Elective |
| Level | Full Degree Master |
| Duration | One Quarter |
| Start time of the course | Second Quarter |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
| Max. participants | 60 |
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Study Board for cand.merc. and GMA (CM)
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| Please find contact information for Student Hub, student Guidiance Services etc. on My.cbs.dk | |
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| Last updated on 15-02-2023 | |
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| The learning objectives are mainly on developing
analytical skills through training and less on acquiring knowledge
through lectures and reading.
The student will after the course: • Understand the strategic management of core competencies of value adding processes • Be able to identify different managerial challenges related to those • Be trained in analyzing complex problematic situations • Be able to do such analyses across different cases of firms with variations in e.g. industry, size, technologies • Be trained in developing, assessing and comparing different patterns of action • Be skilled in applying different management technologies and be able to explain the concepts, their objectives, and application in practice • Be trained in arguing for best appropriate proposed managerial action |
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Strategic management of Innovation and Technology is about understanding what creates competitive advantages through building unique competencies. A certain strength is the one of innovative capability, but also the management of technological development. Technology is the knowledge area (logy) of techniques of products, services and processes, how to create them and how to manage them, not to be misunderstood as technique. Important areas that are covered in the course are Technology as knowledge of Products/Services and processes, Patterns of Industrial Innovation, Developing the Innovative Capabilities and core competencies, Sourcing and transfer of knowledge, Venturing processes, Systems for Innovation, Managing from Research to development, Organizing and utilizing global resources, Development strategy; Organizing and Leading teams, Developing the Learning Organization. This is dealt with both within and across cases analyses. Hence, along with being able to do the analysis of the listed areas in the individual firm, the student is supposed to be able to compare and contrast cases covered in the course.
The course's development of personal competences: The students will develop their competences in acting as managers and management consultants. They will have to analyse complex situations based on complex but limited data, sort out what is more and less relevant, apply what they get from literature, develop alternative ways of action, make choices, recommendations and propose action. The course aims at training skills for line managers and management consultants. NOTE: The course objective is to train and develop skills in doing analysis, not acquiring knowledge about the cases even if the student has to know of the cases to do the analyses. Preparations will take considerable time in getting to know the cases well and through readings get tools to analyse them. It will be difficult to acquire the analytical skills without active class participation.
Please be aware that this course is also part of a minor in Operations and Innovation Process Management |
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| The format of this course is case based training.
Cases are 'open-ended', i.e. they are complex and do not
end with a couple of questions but with a problematic situation
from which to take action. The format is often understood as the
Harvard or Stanford Business School style; this involves
high-energy discussion, debate, and interaction. Students are
requested to bring their own views into discussion and to share
learning with fellow students. By the end of the course,
participants have developed and refined analytical skills and for
presenting their arguments persuasive to others as a result of the
discussion- and critique-oriented nature of the course.
The students will have to prepare case based sessions and will have to find theory in a list of scientific articles and book chapters. The teacher acts as a facilitator of a range of alternative processes although with a well-planned training objective and skills development outcome. Note: Students must prepare case analyses or training will not take place. Students are asked to make presentations of their analyses at the outset of each session. In the lecture, the students have to act by analysing and presenting while the teacher acts as a facilitator. The course objective is acquiring skills by training, not learning by reading. It may be difficult to acquire the analytical skills without active class participation. |
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| After a brief introduction students discuss
today’s case in breakout groups. Teachers circulate in breakout
student groups responding to questions and commenting on issues
raised. In the following plenary teachers comment on the
presentations and facilitate an ‘all students involved’ feedback
discussion of the presentation.
For the students to check their understanding regarding the analytical frameworks and models used in the case analysis, case sessions will end with a synthesizing lecture and Q&A format. |
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This course is part of the Minor in Operations and Innovation Process Management |
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CASES discussed in class
Book: Printed for sale at Academic Books: Schilling, Melissa A. (2022). Strategic management of technological innovation (7th edition), McGraw-Hill, New York. E-book options:
Article Readings: Mandatory and optional articles will be linked to in CBS Canvas. |
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