VSFS:NA_CIM Change & Innovation Management - Course Information
NA_CIM Change & Innovation Management
University of Finance and AdministrationSummer 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Vidhu Maggu, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Ing. Ludmila Mládková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Ing. Ludmila Mládková, Ph.D.
Department of Economics and Management – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Ing. Edita Jerie, DiS. - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- NA_CIM/cBM1PH: each even Tuesday 10:30–11:14 S24, each even Tuesday 11:15–12:00 S24, except Tue 7. 2. ; and Tue 14. 2. 10:30–12:00 S24, L. Mládková
NA_CIM/cBM2PH: each odd Thursday 14:00–14:44 S16PC, each odd Thursday 14:45–15:30 S16PC, except Thu 2. 3., except Thu 27. 4. ; and Thu 16. 2. 15:45–17:15 S16PC, Thu 27. 4. 14:45–16:15 S16PC, V. Maggu
NA_CIM/pBMPH: each even Tuesday 8:45–9:29 S24, each even Tuesday 9:30–10:15 S24, except Tue 7. 2. ; and Tue 14. 2. 8:45–10:15 S24, L. Mládková - Prerequisites
- There are no prerequisites for this course.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students will be able to:
- define basic terms and specify the basic features of innovation and innovative entrepreneurship;
- clarify the significance of innovative activities to ensure high competitiveness of firms in today's global economics;
- explain the conditions for successful evaluation of innovations;
- define the characteristics of management processes ensuring business development of companies using successful innovations while providing profitability of investment put into its realization. The role of managers in implementing a business strategy based on the use of innovations. - Syllabus
- 1. Innovation and innovative entrepreneurship
- 2. Search for innovative opportunities
- 3. Intellectual capital and its utilization
- 4. Financing innovation
- 5. Building a pro-innovation climate
- 6. The choice of innovative solutions that create new market space
- 7. Strategic partnership
- 8. The path to the business success of innovation
- 9. Return on investment in an innovation
- 10.The role of managers in ensuring the development of innovative business
- Literature
- required literature
- Chan, W., Mauborgne,K., R.: Blue Ocean Strategy. How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. Harvard Business Press; 1 edition (February 3, 2005). ISBN-13: 978-1591396192
- Peter M. Senge: The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization. Crown Business; Revised edition (March 21, 2006). ISBN-13: 978-0385517256
- recommended literature
- KIM, W. Blue ocean strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, c2005, xv, 240 s. ISBN 15-913-9619-0.
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Innovations. Cambridge. Mass: MIT Press, 2006.
- Innovating to learn, learning to innovate. Paris: OECD, c2008, 256 p. ISBN 978-926-4047-976.
- Teaching methods
- The course is delivered in 6 lectures + 6 seminars (90 mins.) Students in full time study program should attend 75% of seminars as a minimum.
- Assessment methods
- To gain credit, students will develop a written assignment on a topic explained in the lectures. Subsequently, they will undergo written examination (60 % of points min).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Information on completion of the course: ISP
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin KS/semestr.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2017, recent)
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