Complexity, Management & Network Thinking
Elective ModulesEven as fads go, the 'New Economy' label has had a very rapid rise and fall in the popular media. However, the impact of new communications and information technologies that fired the 'New Economy' rhetoric continues to be a significant one. This module will equip you to make sense of the emerging context so that you can develop and implement strategies for surviving and thriving in the emergent world.
Topics usually covered include:
- The impact of IT on the transformational context
- The transformational and evolutionary process
- Emergence and the evolution of business models in the internet-enabled world
- Competition in the information space
- Knowledge management, organisational learning and intelligence
- The development and leveraging of organisational information networks and infrastructures.
By the end of this module you will have:
- Understood the complexity and emergent characteristics of the Internet-enabled competitive and socio-economic environment
- Examined transformation at the macro- and micro-levels
- Dealt with issues related to the effective harnessing of information systems and human and social resources for strategy realisation
- Explored how to exploit ICT infrastructures
- Appreciated appropriate technologies for enabling organisational transformation and leveraging intellectual capital.
There are other elective modules available in this field.