ME50372: Strategic and innovative thinking
[Page last updated: 04 August 2021]
| Academic Year: | 2021/2 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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| Description: | Aims: The aim of this course is to provide students with strategic and innovative thinking methods to challenge the status quo of conventional systems thinking, and to provide a framework for managing the rapidly changing technological world. This course will explore strategic thinking processes, road-mapping techniques, contextualization of technology drivers, and alternative thinking approaches for systems design and analysis. The course will critically review current processes, such as the V-process, interface specifications, and how these impose limitations in today's changing world. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit the student will be able to: * summarise systems thinking in an automotive propulsion context * apply strategic thinking * apply effective critical thinking techniques * conduct road-mapping exercises over short, medium and long term horizons. Skills: * Independent study * Oral communication * Written communication * Critical thinking * Prioritization and scoring matrix techniques * Data and information analysis of complex systems * SWOT analysis * Dealing with incomplete data * Strategic development techniques. Content: This unit will be built around a variety of techniques to develop a strategy and roadmap. Students will be given a number of lectures on techniques and then asked to apply them to develop a technology roadmap for a specific area, including a strategy on how to achieve these goals. The automotive digital techniques roadmap will be a cornerstone technique used as the basis for the work. The course will also introduce techniques from psychology and management to provide a holistic approach to thinking and a wide array of techniques that can be employed to solve and analyse problems Specifically the course will include * Data analysis techniques for large and incomplete data sets * Case studies including implementations of the classic V-process, as well as how disruptive technologies impact on traditional planning and strategic thinking * 6-steps for effective critical thinking * 6-sigma. |
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ME50372 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Mechanical Engineering
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