Corporate Strategy in the Knowledge Society

Enseignants

Coeurderoy Régis; Vas Alain;

Langue
d'enseignement

Anglais

Préalables

Ideally in terms of competiencies : Knowledge of the basin concepts of management.

Thèmes abordés

The design and implementation of innovation-based strategies

Acquis
d'apprentissage

A la fin de cette unité d’enseignement, l’étudiant est capable de :
1	By the end of the class, students should master the main concepts underlying the development of corporate strategy in innovation-intensive competitive environments

Contenu

• The challenges related to the strategic management of innovation, from a corporate perspective in the context of the rising importance of the knowledge economy
• Innovation and invention : definitions and typology
• The core capabilities of the strategic management of innovations
• The growing importance of multi-sided platform-based markets
• The in depth design and implementation of a Blue Ocean innovation strategy based on an on line simulation (BOSS)*

* Please, note that the access of the on-line simulation implies the acquisition of a license for each student.
Each student enrolled in the course must acquire the individual license at a cost of +/- 40 EUR (more details on the procedure at the introductory session of the course). 
Any student who cannot finance the acquisition of the license can make a request for financing to the LSM Dean office.

Méthodes d'enseignement

In-class activities 

• Lectures
• Micro-teaching (partly presented by students)
• Work on case-work

At home activities

• Readings to prepare the lecture
• Work on case-work
• Students presentation

Modes d'évaluation
des acquis des étudiants

Continuous evaluation (40%)

• Sudents' case work by group (15%)
• BOSS simulation  (continuous evaluation) (25%)

Evaluation week (40%)

• Oral: No
• Written: final 2h final exam (40%)
• Note: each student must get a minimum grade of 7.5 out of 20 at the individual final exam to pass the course

Examination: second session

• If too few students are registered for the second session examination, the written exam will be replaced by an oral exam.

Autres infos

Additional information on calendaring and group work methods will be provided during the course.

Ressources
en ligne

All interactions on teaching materials, references and processing of case works and presentations is managed on Moodle.

Bibliographie

• Reference list : distributed during the course.
• Lecture slides : available on Moodle

Faculté ou entité
en charge

CLSM