MGC3510 - Management of technology

Leader: Dr Nicholas Beaumont

Offered

Clayton First semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit examines the inter-relationships between technology and organisation structures, strategies and processes, and how technology produces change within organisations. Technology provides the basis for innovative products and services, and fundamentally changes industries, redefining the ways in which organisations operate. In the competitive international environment, with an ever increasing pressure to focus on consumer needs and to produce a wider diversity of products, the capture of technology and creativity provides a means for organisations to gain a competitive advantage. This requires an understanding of the processes of innovation and organisational change.

Objectives

The learning objectives of this unit are to:

• critically assess the role of technology in business processes;
• judge the role and importance of technology in enhancing organisational performance;
• discriminate the differences in stakeholders and their capabilities and limitations in the strategic convergence of technology and business;
• assess the rapid changes taking place with technology in the business environment;
• judge the role new technologies and the development of new trends in terms of the future role of managers.

Assessment

Individual assignment: 2000 words (25%)
Group assignment and presentation: 3500 words (35%)
Examination (2 hours): 40%

Contact hours

Three hours of class contact

Prerequisites

MGC1010

Prohibitions

MGF3381, MGW3381