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This module provides you with a critical understanding of the different steps that a new venture takes, from developing an initial business idea to creating a business plan as a route to securing funding. The module develops your understanding of theories of enterprise and entrepreneurship and enables you to relate such theories to practice through a project to develop market research using Canvas and Lean Start-up methodologies. You will apply the research individually to develop a business plan.

This module provides you with an understanding of the financing landscape for entrepreneurial firms. It equips individuals who plan to be involved in entrepreneurial firms in their careers – as founders, managers, advisors or investors – with the knowledge and capabilities to help them secure finance and funding in an entrepreneurial context. The module examines entrepreneurial firms, financial bootstrapping, business angels, venture capital and recent trends in entrepreneurial finance, such as crowd funding in its different forms.

The purpose of this module is to stimulate creative thinking and develop reflective analytical skills, to enable innovative new ways of working within your organisation and beyond, with customers, clients, and partners. Core theories and contemporary practice in operations, entrepreneurship and innovation, process design and quality improvement are explored, providing joined up thinking on value creation, optimisation and maintenance in the delivery of services and products. The module enables you to think about customer, client and service user requirements and identify process and efficiency-based improvements whilst not compromising quality and perceived customer value. It develops approaches to creative problem solving implicit in product, service and process improvement.

Leading and managing in today’s business environment is complex. This module addresses the needs of executives in today’s dynamic environment and focuses on strategic leadership in the context of complexity and change. It explores the origins and history of leadership thinking and provides a fundamental understanding of contemporary leadership theory. The pivotal role of the senior leader in the process of understanding and shaping of organisational culture is examined and you will develop key leadership knowledge and skills including: the identification of different types of leadership problems and approaches to solving them; understanding and making sense of change; and will develop an understanding of the leader’s role in power, politics, ethics and diversity.

The Digital Revolution has seen information systems move from supporting business, to ‘being’ the business. This transformation has seen development not only in technology, but business models, ways of working and culture. It is now essential that all managers are equipped to effectively exploit these developments to help gain competitive advantage and shape the organisation in a digital society. This module explores a range of different topics relating to the digitalisation of organisations, including: digital and data management strategies; use of data collection and analysis to support effective decision-making; and disruptive technologies and business models.

Strategy is often considered to be at the very pinnacle of business management because well-founded strategies give purpose, focus and structure to all other activities. Yet in today’s rapidly evolving world of opportunities, strategic management needs to evolve from a rigid planning process into a more flexible process. This module explores theoretical perspectives and theories – as paradoxes and conflicting viewpoints – and examines the strategic thinking and decision-making processes that need to take place for an organisation to develop suitable strategies to compete in what are often dynamic and hyper-competitive environments.

Operations are the foundations of every organisation, whether manufacturing, service organisations or not-for-profit organisations. This module explores how organisations can build operations and supply chains in a sustainable way that helps to deliver the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit.

This module looks in detail at the role of management in organisations. It explores how organisations are structured and function, with a focus on how people work together in the organisational context. The module covers a range of topics that impact on the role of the manager including: business ethics; risk management; organisational sustainability; creating products and services with a sustainable mindset and awareness of environmental impact; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); organisational continuity; and robustness in an increasingly global context.

Strategic marketing is central to enabling an organisation to respond to a dynamic global marketplace. It is the activity which determines and prioritises the different marketing deliverables within the marketing mix and as such is arguably the core marketing activity. This module provides an overview of strategic marketing, the decisions, processes and frameworks involved and considers the implementation of these tools and activities in various organisational contexts. It also considers the challenges of developing and executing marketing strategies at a global level. The module examines ways in which organisations might best respond as they seek to develop a strong and sustainable position through careful identification of target markets and creation of competitive advantage.

The Dissertation Entrepreneurship is an opportunity for you to assimilate what you have learned during the MBA Entrepreneurship and apply it to a business opportunity (extended business plan) or an enterprise opportunity within an organisation (enterprise research) that is of interest to you. The resulting output is intended to be a comprehensive document that you will be able to benefit from in taking your next critical steps as an entrepreneur.