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BUS705 Innovation Management and Professional Development

Course Coordinator:Margarietha Scheepers (mscheepe@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries

2026Session 3

UniSC Sunshine Coast

 Blended learning Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online.

Online

 Online You can do this course without coming onto campus, unless your program has specified a mandatory onsite requirement.

Please go to unisc.edu.au for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.

What is this course about?

Description

This course examines innovation’s role in making firms future ready. You will develop innovation, creativity and problem-solving skills to identify opportunities and propose a compelling business case to pursue these within an existing organisational context. The innovation process skills you learn in this course will assist you to develop solutions applicable to the melding of physical and digital realms linked to SDG8. The course will also equip you with knowledge and skills to maximise your potential for career progression and employment outcomes.

How will this course be delivered?

Activity Hours Beginning Week Frequency
Blended learning
Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities. 2hrs Week 1 6 times
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Scheduled face to face workshops. 4hrs Week 1 6 times
Information session – Assessment task information and Q&A sessions 1hr Refer to Format 2 times
Online
Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities. 2hrs Week 1 6 times
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Scheduled online workshops (Recorded). 4hrs Week 1 6 times
Information session – Assessment task information and Q&A sessions 1hr Refer to Format 2 times

Course Topics

  • Introduction to innovation and its relevance for business in a phygital world
  • Innovation Trends: Future of work and career implications
  • Personal leadership and employability: The post-graduate business professional
  • Industry dynamics of technological innovation
  • Corporate entrepreneurship and innovation strategy
  • The organisational innovation model and leading innovation teams
  • Creative problem-solving applied to business
  • Innovation opportunities shaped by dynamic challenges
  • Organisation culture and climate’s influence on firm innovation
  • Organisational renewal and structuring for innovation
  • Collaborative innovation and intellectual property protection
  • Business model innovation and design thinking

What level is this course?

700 Level (Specialised)

Demonstrating a specialised body of knowledge and set of skills for professional practice or further learning. Advanced application of knowledge and skills in unfamiliar contexts.

What is the unit value of this course?

12 units

How does this course contribute to my learning?

Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... Graduate Qualities Mapping Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... Professional Standard Mapping * Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
1 Demonstrate career adaptability awareness required to develop your career as a proactive, innovative business postgraduate. Empowered 
PC6, PC6.1
2 Analyse the processes for making efficient and effective business decisions for the optimum path forward. Knowledgeable 
PC3, PC3.1, PC6.1
3 Problem solve and apply creative thinking skills to make innovative and sustainable business decisions under conditions of rapid change and high levels of ambiguity. Creative and critical thinker
Sustainability-focussed 
PC3, PC3.1
4 Identify and apply processes for decision-making about the optimal way to manage innovation. Engaged 
PC3, PC3.1

* Competencies by Professional Body

CODE COMPETENCY
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
PC3 Creative and Critical Thinking
PC3.1 Problem Solving
PC6 Career-adaptive
PC6.1 Adaptability

Am I eligible to enrol in this course?

Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.

Pre-requisites

Enrolled in any PGRD Program

Co-requisites

Not applicable

Anti-requisites

MBA701 or EMB751

Specific assumed prior knowledge and skills (where applicable)

Not applicable

Microcredential Information

Not applicable

How am I going to be assessed?

Grading Scale

Standard Grading (GRD)

High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL).

Details of early feedback on progress

You will gain early feedback on your progress by completing formative learning activities and actively participating in the workshops and asynchronous discussions.

Assessment tasks

Delivery mode Task No. Assessment Product Individual or Group Weighting % What is the duration / length? When should I submit? Where should I submit it?
All 1 Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece Individual 50% 
2000 words
 Week 4 Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check
All 2 Report Individual 50% 
3,000 words
 Week 7 Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check
All - Assessment Task 1:Case study and professional development reflection.
Goal: 
To demonstrate your ability to apply the theory, critically analyse a case study and develop a professional development artefact.
Product: Artefact - Professional, and Written Piece
Authorship Statement:
Format: 
This is an individual task (2500 words), where you are required to demonstrate your ability to adapt to changing career demands and apply innovation theory to practice, using workshop generated artefacts in your submission. Details of this assessment will be provided on Canvas.
This task is used to measure assurance of learning towards Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. The following Program Learning Objectives will be assessed:
PLO6.1: Career Readiness: Graduates are adaptive, responsible, self-managing and career ready.
Criteria:
No. Learning Outcome assessed
1 
classifying innovation concepts in the case study;
 2
2 
analysing the innovation dilemma using relevant innovation frameworks;
 2
3 
generating and proposing solutions.
 3
4 
identifying the portfolio of skills required for career progression
 1
5 
explaining professional development options
 1
6 
explaining the professional requirements and career trends
 1
Generic Skills: 
Problem solving
All - Assessment Task 2:Innovation Report
Goal: 
Propose a leading-edge innovation to address an organisational challenge to create customer value and develop an innovation action plan.
Product: Report
Authorship Statement:
Format: 
This is an individual task (3,000 words) where you demonstrate your ability to propose an innovation to address a customer-focused challenge, by drawing on the relevant material in this course and creative problem-solving process in the workshops. 
Details of this assessment will be provided on Canvas and in class.
This task is used to measure assurance of learning towards Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. The following Program Learning Objectives will be assessed:
PLO3.1: Critical and creative thinking
Demonstrate critical and creative thinking to identify and solve complex business problems and arrive at innovative solutions.
Criteria:
No. Learning Outcome assessed
1 
define the sustainability/company challenge in need of an innovation response.
 4
2 
demonstrate how sources of ideas influence the development of alternatives in formulating the innovation and creative solution.
 3
3 
problem solve and apply creative thinking skills using the strategic innovation model
 3
4 
consider the most appropriate leadership approach for the innovation response proposed.
 2
5 
formulate an innovation implementation approach that would give this innovation response the best chance of succeeding
 4
6 
well-presented, with convincing arguments, supported by relevant evidence.
 2
Generic Skills: 
Problem solving

Directed study hours

A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.

What resources do I need to undertake this course?

Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.

Prescribed text(s) or course reader

You need regular access to the resource(s) below. Many texts are available as ebooks through the Library at no additional cost.

Required? Author Year Title Edition Publisher
Required De Villiers, Scheepers & Burgess 2024 BUS705 Learning Guide (available via Canvas) n/a UniSC SBCI

Specific requirements

N/A

How are risks managed in this course?

Health and safety risks for this course have been assessed as low. It is your responsibility to review course material, search online, discuss with lecturers and peers and understand the health and safety risks associated with your specific course of study and to familiarise yourself with the University’s general health and safety principles by reviewing the online induction training for students, and following the instructions of the University staff.

What administrative information is relevant to this course?

Assessment: Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.

Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.

In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.

Assessment: Additional Requirements

Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment

Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale

Assessment: Submission penalties

Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.

The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty

Links to relevant University policy and procedures

For more information on Academic Learning & Teaching categories including:

  • Assessment: Courses and Coursework Programs
  • Review of Assessment and Final Grades
  • Supplementary Assessment
  • Central Examinations
  • Deferred Examinations
  • Student Conduct
  • Students with a Disability

For more information, visit https://www.usc.edu.au/explore/policies-and-procedures#academic-learning-and-teaching

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