Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Manage interdisciplinary team structures.
- Analyse project management approaches.
- Develop critical and analytical thinking skills.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Adapt innovation management for high-technology complex projects.
- Develop critical project management skills.
- Apply appropriate project management approaches in complex projects
- Adapt processes across interdisciplinary project teams in high-technology projects.
- Implement project management risk mitigation approaches in high-technology complex projects.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- How organisations strategically implement business practices with high-technology complex products .
- Fundamental project management from ideation, planning, implementation, control, and closure.
- Project management risks in complex projects and risk mitigation.
- Interdisciplinary project teams, stakeholders, and the role of project managers in new and emergent high-technology complex projects.
- How organisational capabilities for high-technology complex products innovation management may vary from high volume products and services.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 24 |
Independent Study | 126 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Chartered Associate for Project management. https://www.apm.org.uk
Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport. https://ciltuk.org.uk
Project Management Institute. https://www.pmi.org
Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply. https://www.cips.org
Institute of Mechanical Engineers. https://www.imeche.org
Journal Articles
International Journal of Project Management.
Project Management Journal.
Journal of Product Innovation Management.
Research Policy.
Journal of Operations Management.
Technovation.
Production and Operations Management.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
Production Planning and Control.
Textbooks
Brown, S. & Bessant, J. (2018). Strategic Operations Management. Routledge.
Tidd, J. & Bessant, J. ( 2018). Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change. Wiley.
Chapman, R. (2019). The Rules of Project Risk Management: Implementation Guidelines for Major Projects. Routledge.
Maylor, H. (2010). Project Management. Prentice Hall.
Murray-Webster, R., & Dalcher, D. (2019). APM Body of Knowledge. Association for Project Management.
Shina, S. (2014). Engineering Project Management for the Global Hight Technology Industry. McGraw-Hill.
Flyvbjerg, B., Bruzelius, N., Rothengatter, W. ( 2003). Megaprojects and Risks: An anatomy of ambition.. Cambridge University Press.
Flyvbjerg, B. (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management. Oxford University Press.
Shenhar, A., Dvir, D. (2007). Reinventing Project Management: Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation. Harvard Business School Press.
Prencipe, A., Davies, A., and Hobday, M. (2003). The Business of Systems Integration. Oxford University Press.
Davies, A. & Hobday, M. (2005). The Business of Projects. Cambridge University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Report | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Report | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Report | 100% |