12 weeks or equivalent

Minimum of 2 hours per week or equivalent for online students using discussion forum

Lilydale, Online

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Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

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Aims & Objectives:

• Describe the networked enterprise environment taking multiple views and developing awareness of dramatic change and emerging patterns of enterprise
• Utilise a variety of models of enterprise and change management to make sense of what is happening in the global environment
• Argue the case for commercial sustainability being important in the short, medium and longer term and in relation to future generations
• Further develop capabilities relevant to managing change in relation to self and others
• Appreciate the many facets of change management including readiness, change processes, resistance, multiple stakeholders, and process design
• Explain the nature and importance of value creation and its relationship with sustainability
• Apply common management processes including decision making, problem solving, strategic planning and evaluation
• Measure performance using sustainability triple bottom line (TBL)
  

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Assessment:

Networked enterprise model application in the global environment – business report 30%; Knowing yourself and your enterprise in the eBusiness environment – analysis and application report 30%; Managing change for sustainable value creation and service advantage - strategy plan 40% 

Generic Skills Outcomes:

In this unit you will develop and enhance the following graduate attributes in your self:

• Are entrepreneurial by having the ability to critically understand innovations and developments in the context of the eBusiness environment
• Are capable in the professional area of enterprise design and management by having a working knowledge of the eBusiness environment, appreciating the challenges involved in managing in the context of complexity and a changing global environment, and having the abilities for intelligence gathering, sense-making and critical enquiry
• Have a sense of social responsibility for knowledge and its application, taking a triple bottom line approach to performance measurement
• Undertake activities involving measurement tools both independently and collaboratively
• Understand the interconnectedness between the economic, environmental and social views embedded within the concept of sustainability
  

Content:

• Enterprise by network in a global environment
• Enterprise design conceptual framework (EDCF)
• Emergence of sustainability and outsourcing as drivers of change
• Knowing your customer imperative in reversing the value chain
• Models of change in a complex networked environment
• Managing change readiness and change resistance for sustainability
• Sharing knowledge, processes, decision making, workflow, client information
• Knowing your global environment – sense making, ambiguity, cognition, people
• Risk, resilience and complexity – sustainability and the resilient organisation
• Value creation, network design, cultural and human capital transformation
• Performance measurement and the triple bottom line (TBL)
  

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