This module focuses on building leadership skills essential for international and cross-cultural settings. It prepares you to lead diverse global teams by adapting leadership styles to fit various cultural norms and communication methods. The module covers strategies for managing ethical challenges and resolving cross-cultural conflicts, using real-world case studies to develop your cultural intelligence. The goal is to equip you with the soft skills needed to foster collaboration and effectively lead international teams by developing advanced soft skills through coursework, experiential learning, and self-reflection exercises. The curriculum is structured to build critical capabilities such as leadership, emotional intelligence, and teamwork, essential for effective business navigation. Additionally, the module integrates technology into leadership, teaching you how to use AI in management. You will learn how to demonstrate using AI-powered tools for scheduling, resource allocation, communication, and risk management tasks. You’ll develop strategic plans by applying AI for forecasting, scenario planning, and optimisation, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and ethical standards. You will exhibit teamwork and collaboration skills by actively participating in group projects and simulations, contributing to
successful outcomes in a collaborative environment. This module is designed to prepare you as a future leader for the challenges of diverse, culturally varied, and technologydriven business environments. It provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to lead effectively in these dynamic settings, making it an ideal choice for those with a global mindset and a passion for leadership.

The module, ‘Analytics Essentials: Transforming Business with Big Data’ offers a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge advancements in big data analytics and their transformative impact on business operations and strategy. Throughout the course, you’ll delve into key topics such as data mining techniques, machine learning fundamentals, real-time data analytics, and advanced analytics techniques. Emphasis is placed on the practical application of these concepts through case studies highlighting innovative business applications across various industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and telecommunications. Additionally, the module addresses ethical considerations, privacy protection, infrastructure, and future trends in big data analytics. By the end of the module, you’ll have gained a deep understanding of how big data analytics drives innovation and competitive advantage in the evolving landscape of business

This module offers a comprehensive exploration of how organizations can strategically manage technology and innovation to foster competitive advantage and drive market success. You will gain practical skills in problem discovery, identifying technological opportunities, and creating customer-centric solutions. The course emphasizes the development of sustainable strategies for commercializing technology, with key areas of focus including technological disruption, standards battle, platform competition, technology transfer, and market adoption.

You will also build hands-on expertise in intellectual property (IP) management and collaboration strategies, equipping yourself to protect innovations and sustain competitive advantages. Additionally, this module emphasizes leadership in managing cross-functional innovation teams, with a focus on agile leadership and navigating the challenges of sustainable technology and organizational change. Through a combination of key frameworks, real-world case studies, and practical activities, you will develop the skills to analyse and apply strategies for managing innovation in complex, competitive environments. This module ensures that you leave with practical tools for implementing innovation strategies, managing new product development (NPD) processes, and leading technological change in today’s fast-paced industries.

You’ll critically review existing entrepreneurship and innovation models and concepts, including process models, and explore ‘patchwork’ and ‘opportunity’ based approaches to entrepreneurship and innovation. During the module you’ll explore how innovation’ comes from a variety of sources, examine the principles of ‘open’ innovation, and recognise the importance of exploiting available networks and of developing an innovative culture. Your ability to analyse and critique ‘entrepreneurial’ business models, both existing and conceptual will be improved through the utilisation of tools such as the Business Model Canvas. You’ll think creatively by proposing innovative solutions to creating and capturing value through the medium of consultancy report and applying some of the theoretical underpinnings of the module.

Finally, the principles of entrepreneurship and innovation are analysed in the context of entrepreneurs, start-up and family businesses from across the globe, in various commercial, public-sector and not- for-profit sectors, emphasising the importance and challenges of ‘social’ and ‘sustainability-led’ innovation.

Designed to provide you with a clear insight into the behaviours of individuals and groups within healthcare organisations, that have a significant impact on how healthcare organisations function and perform. You’ll gain a deep understanding of key theories of organisation behaviour and critically review them for their practical applications in healthcare organisations. Explore the concepts of organisational culture, structure, work motivation, well-being, decision-making, communication, scientific management and the human relation approach. As well as developing your knowledge, you’ll hone your skills of analysis and critical reflection.

You’ll examine how organisation change can be harnessed to benefit both the employer and the key stakeholders within a healthcare organisation. Together, we’ll evaluate the key theories and models of organisational change alongside leadership theory and how they can be used practically to influence and mange organisational change. You’ll consider the wider environment, and address issues in relation to power, politics, conflict and emotions that go hand in hand with organisational change. When initiating change, you’ll view healthcare as a potentially complex area and be aware of the tendency of managers to be overly positive and optimistic towards organisational change. You’ll critically evaluate dominant approaches/models to organisational change in order to help you manage healthcare organisational change more effectively. Throughout you’ll consider the management of information, communications, and technological innovations driving change.

This major project module allows students to engage in a substantial piece of individual research focussed on a topic relevant to their business degree award and specialist subject area under the supervision and guidance of a member of academic staff. This module requires students to develop their chosen topic into a specific project under the guidance of their supervisor. Supervisors will discuss with students contemporary research problems and issues based on their research and practice, and students will be required to conduct literature reviews, evaluate and critically appraise a range of information, investigate and adopt suitable theoretical frameworks, research methodologies and methods, and process and analyse data to produce a coherent and justified solution to the problem(s) identified. Throughout the module your supervisor will support you in terms of content and skills development so that you can work semi-autonomously on your individual research project. This is achieved through regular supervisory meetings throughout the year, which will allow for individual discussion of the tasks that will have to be completed in order to develop the project smoothly. Students will receive formative and constructive feedback from their supervisors in order progress their research to a conclusion. Attendance at meetings and engagement with the proposed tasks are essential to successful completion of the project.