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EMBA6003: Managing Connected Enterprises
2024 unit information
Contemporary business leaders must be able to operate effectively in a dynamic and interconnected business world. They not only need to understand the fundamentals of managing a business (strategy, business models, marketing, accounting, finance, operations, human resource management) but also how to do so in a world with high levels of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. In this second foundational module of the EMBA, students work in teams on projects that address 'live' strategic issues for a partner organisation, to provide them with an experiential base for learning about business fundamentals. The module also develops students' understanding of how rich networks of connections both inside and outside an enterprise shape its activities and outcomes, and hence the importance of managing these connections to ensure alignment or 'fit'. Students also learn that achieving strategic fit of an organisation with its environment requires managerial attention not simply to economic considerations but to social and ecological ones as well, in order to deliver on its responsibilities, meet stakeholders' expectations, and ensure long-term sustainability. The projects give students the opportunity to continue to develop their team building and leadership skills as introduced in EMBA6002 Reframing Leadership, while mastering business fundamentals.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Management Education
| Code | EMBA6003 |
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| Academic unit | Management Education |
| Credit points | 12 |
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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EMBA6000 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. diagnose business challenges in a range of organisational and industry contexts
- LO2. apply knowledge and skills from multiple management fields to develop integrated solutions to challenges commonly faced by organisations, including your own
- LO3. evaluate a range of models and management tools and apply them to develop innovative and pragmatic responses to business challenges, taking into account ethical and social issues in your response
- LO4. deploy a range of communication strategies that demonstrate your ability to persuade and motivate others
- LO5. work collaboratively within and across organisational boundaries, while developing and leveraging the diverse skills of the teams you lead or of which you are part.
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