1. Assessment 1 – Option A or B
A. Innovation Strategy
Analyse an organisation of your choice (or unit or department) using relevant models (e.g. Bessant) to determine the current level of innovation. Describe this in the analysis of your organisation. Use the vision and/or mission as a rationale to decide the direction and steps that would need to be taken to increase innovation activity within your organisation. Do a full report on the innovation strategy you’d implement including key outcomes, resource and risk management, and an incremental plan.
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B. Innovating for your preferred future
Using the processes you have engaged with online or in class,
a) Describe the current CLA layers followed by the new layers working back from the new metaphor (750 words)
b) Describe the desired future and use backcasting as a planning technique for transforming the future.
Do a full report on each stage of the forward planning (max of 3 steps). At each stage address these issues:
1. What measures will be needed to address the new narrative:
i. “new” roles?
ii. “new” resources?
iii. “new” structures?
2. What risks/challenges or opportunities will be presented? (1750 words)
Weighting 55%(2500 words) Grading: HD, DN, Cr, P or F