Group Presentation

2 - Oral assessment and presentation - 40

Group Report

1 - Written assignment (including essay) - 60

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The course will blend academic and practitioner input with site visits and interactive Q&amp;A sessions with those engaged in developing and delivering digital innovation and entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. Digital innovation is the process of specifying an organisation’s vision, goals, opportunities and initiatives in order to lead the ongoing digital transformation, and not to succumb to it. The course will therefore cover the following topics and allow participants to develop their understanding of the latest trends and practice to lead the digital transformation and topics will include: 
 
<ul><li>New trends in the development of digital technologies (e.g., AI, robots, 3D printing, etc.) </li></ul>
<ul><li>Digital entrepreneurship </li></ul>
<ul><li>Competition in digital marketplaces </li></ul>
<ul><li>Business model innovation </li></ul>
<ul><li>Disruptive innovation </li></ul>
<ul><li>Digital ecosystems </li></ul>
<ul><li>Platforms </li></ul>
<ul><li>Best practices in digital innovation </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

In-Person - 

Self-directed - 

Information rules

Creativity Inc. 

How Google works

Zero to One

The Power of Habits

Steve Jobs

The lean start-up

MBM171 - Digital Innovation in Action

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This 4 day module will be dynamic, intense and practical. Students will be exposed to key representatives from the entire Silicon Valley business ecosystem. 
 
Students will have the chance to visit, learn from, and network with: 
 
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<li>Experienced entrepreneurs and founders of start-ups </li>
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<li>Incubator and accelerators that foster an entrepreneurial environment and support the early stage entrepreneurs </li>
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<li>Senior executives from established companies leading, or facing, digital disruption </li>
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<li>Business angel investors, venture capitalists and executives from private equity firms </li>
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<li>Professional services firms such as banks, law firms or consultancies that complement and provide the business support </li>
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<li>Policy makers </li>
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Digital Innovation in Action

Reflect on issues of corporate social responsibility, ethics and sustainability. 

Values and attitudes

Debate the social impact of digital technology diffusion. 

Evaluate businesses succeed within Silicon Valley within a variety of sectors and use this knowledge to inform decision-making within the students own organisations. 

Knowledge

Reflect upon the extent to which Silicon Valley’s practice can be exported outside the Valley. 

Explain the mechanisms at the intersection of digital transformation, strategy and innovation. 

Interpret the complex interlinks among technological development, strategy and innovation management. 