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Disruptive Innovation
Learning Outcome 1: Critically review and discuss key theories and models of disruptive innovation in business contexts.
Learning Outcome 2: Describe and analyse the factors and conditions that lead to disruptive business innovations.
Learning Outcome 3: Identify industries/firms/organisations facing disruptive innovation dilemmas and exercise critical thinking and judgement in providing adaptive solutions.
Learning Outcome 4: Critically analyse exposure and response strategies for managing disruptive innovation within existing organisations.
Task description: You will prepare two written summaries critically reviewing:
A) Business disruption theories in practice and;
B) Factors driving Australian business disruption
Each summary has a 750-word limit and carries 20% weight.
Assessment criteria: You will be assessed on how you demonstrate a thorough understanding of the concepts and practices recently introduced in class, and the real-world impacts they have onAustralian industry.Overall, you will be assessed on how critically you:
• Review and discuss key theories and models of disruptive innovation in business contexts, and
• Describe and analyse the factors and conditions that lead to disruptive business innovations.
Assessment 2: Written Critical Analysis
Task description: You are to critically analyse an emerging technology and its likely disruption to an existing industry. Recommend a disruption response strategy for management within the existing industry, based on your exposure predictions.
Assessment criteria: This task assesses your evaluation of a technology, your analysis of the exposure effects of the technology on your chosen industry (5%), and your recommendation (s) on how these may be realistically and effectively tackled (10%). Your writing is expected to be clear and well-evidenced with reliable sources (5%).Overall, you will be assessed on how critically you:
- Describe and analyse the factors and conditions that lead to disruptive business innovations, and
- Identify industries/firms/organisations facing disruptive innovation dilemmas and exercise critical thinking and judgment in providing adaptive solutions.
Length:1000 words
Assessment 3 : Case Study Analysis
Task description: In this assessment, you are to critically examine a leading, established real-world organisation. In your examination, you should make a judgement on its risk of exposure to innovation disruption, and recommend strategies for minimising that risk.
Assessment criteria: This task assesses your evaluation of an established organisation, your judgement of its risk of exposure to innovation disruption (10%), and your suggested strategy (ies) to realistically and effectively minimise these risks (25%). Your writing is expected to be clear and well-evidenced with reliable sources (5%).Overall, you will be assessed on how meaningfully you:
- Critically review and discuss key theories and models of disruptive innovation in business contexts,
- Describe and analyse the factors and conditions that lead to disruptive business innovations,
- Identify industries/firms/organizations facing disruptive innovation dilemmas and exercise critical thinking and judgement in providing adaptive solutions, and
- Critically analyse exposure and response strategies for managing disruptive innovation within existing organizations.
Length: 2000 words