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BSS057-6 Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

BSS057-6 Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Supplementary Assignment Guidelines
MBA (Matchbox Architects) Live Consultancy Project:
 
The Live Project folder in the Guided Learning area of the Breo site includes multiple sources that provide further details on MBA:

  • Power Point slides for the Live Consultancy Project
  • Video recording of the brief by Gary Higson, Business Development Manager, MBA
  • Company documentation

 
Key issues relevant to Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship:

  • Challenges of rapid growth – from new start-up to Strategic and Operational leadership and management – supported by quality academic approaches.
  • Architects as qualified professionals versus effective and contemporary leadership and management
  • Founder to Board level leadership – Top down versus bottom-up?
  • Aspire to multi-functional collaboration of in-house specialists – added value
  • Are creative thinking / creative problem-solving processes – Individual creative thinking skills – limited to the design team?
  • How might MBA exploit the potential of its human resource/capital?
  • How might MBA promote creative thinking across all functions and levels?
  • How might MBA encourage and support creativity and innovation across all functions and levels?
  • Agile and Scrum are PM methodologies with an emphasis on software development (Trello?) – To what extent might such methodologies constrain rather than promote creativity across         multiple organisational levels

– Individual blocks / Organisational barriers to creativity and innovation – multiple levels?
– Prescriptive

  • How might MBA address current problems
    • Over on budget
    • Under on quality
    • Unproductive meetings
    • Firefighting
  • Goldman Sachs model – prescriptive?

– Training / coaching in management – what does this comprise?
– Leadership?
– Context specific/tailored?

  • Learning organisation – aspirations and progress
  • Climate for creativity and innovation – KEYS survey
  • Conscious versus unconscious abilities/skills

 
 
Critical analysis and evaluation across Multiple levels of analysis:
Individual, Group and Organisational
 

  1. Assignment 1 focuses on the individual level of analysis. How might creative thinking be promoted in MBA?

Individual blocks to creative thinking
– Creative problem-solving models using structured techniques
– Design thinking
– Critical analysis and evaluation in the context of MBA
– Contextualised recommendations on how to promote creative thinking across all levels, functions and roles?
There should be no overlap with the organisational level of analysis for Assignment 2
 

  1. Assignment 2 focuses on the group and organisational levels of analysis. How might creativity and innovation be promoted and supported in MBA?

– Climate for creativity and innovation
– Creative Leadership
– Open Innovation
There should be no overlap with the individual level of analysis for Assignment 1.
 

 
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