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Overview
It is suitable for anyone interested in developing or improving their skills and expertise in this area.
The need for ongoing technological innovation has become a strategic necessity for many organisations. Even in traditionally stable sectors, the option of maintaining the status quo is seldom viable.
Key facts
- This creates challenges for how organisations acquire and manage the resources and capabilities necessary for effective approaches to innovation and create and maintain contexts that support strategic action.
This Strategic Capabilities for Technological Innovation module at The Open University UK is relevant if you are involved or interested in the development and management of technological innovation in a wide variety of contexts and sectors as diverse and varied as:
- IT/IS
- telecommunications
- computing
- engineering
- manufacturing
- transport and logistics
- retailing
- energy production and supply
- defence and security,
- management and administration
- any form of services, including health, welfare and leisure.
In all these fields, and more, the major theme of this module - the importance of strategically planning and managing a range of organisational resources and capabilities to deliver technological innovation - is central to the effective and successful operation of organisations of any size and purpose.
Programme Structure
Course include:
- Innovation capabilities
- Innovation strategy
- Business models for innovation
- Innovation, culture and risk
- Innovation, power and influence
- Future capabilities for innovation
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 6 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
English
Credits
30 alternative credits
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Innovation Management View 26 other Short Courses in Innovation Management in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This is a masters-level module that can be taken either as a stand-alone module or as part of a postgraduate qualification.
- Relevant professional experience will provide you with a good foundation for studying this module. However, as it takes a multi-disciplinary view of technology strategy, you don’t need to have previously studied any of the topics covered in the module.
- Your spoken and written English must be of an adequate standard for postgraduate study. If English is not your first language, we recommend that you will need a minimum overall score of 6 and minimum score of 5.5 in each of the four components: reading, writing, speaking and listening under the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).
Tuition Fees
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Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents1775 GBP / full≈ 1775 GBP / full
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