Enterprise and Innovation

Unit code: JQU0069 | Study level: Non-award
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Overview

This unit helps students understand what makes a strong enterprise culture in workplaces and communities and how their own skills can make a difference. Students will learn how practices like quality management, workplace flexibility, technology, and training support a culture of innovation. The unit also explores what innovation is and how it connects to enterprise culture, as well as how industries respond to pressures and opportunities for change. By the end of this unit, students will be able to analyse and evaluate how people and organisations work together to create successful, adaptable and innovative workplaces.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Describe and discuss enterprise culture in community or workplace settings and evaluate how individuals’ work-related skills contribute to it.
  2. Evaluate how quality management, workplace flexibility, technology and training support the development of enterprise culture in industry work settings.
  3. Explain innovation, and discuss the relationship between innovation and enterprise culture.
  4. Examine how pressures, opportunities and work-related skills shape industry responses to change.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Case Study
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Grade: 15%
Supervised in-class case study analysis.
Assessment type: Project
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Grade: 40%
Business Model Framework Group project.
Assessment type: Presentation
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Grade: 45%
Oral defence presentation and pitch.

Required reading

Required readings will be made available on VU Collaborate.

As part of a course

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