Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
The digital era significantly enhances the business’s awareness of the product, service and process innovation, as well as the need for digital transformation.
This course discusses the enterprises’ innovation strategy, innovation management and digital transformation strategy.
The course is designed with in-class workshop, exercises, case study discussion, to equip the students with the analytical skill, creative thinking, systematic planning and management skill, in order to enhance the students’ competitiveness in the digital economy.
能力項目說明
This course is targeted at achieving the following objectives:
1. To provide students with knowledge of innovation management and digital transformation
2. To stimulate students’ insight into the new economic paradigm
3. To prepare students who wish to enter into digital economy businesses
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Tentative class schedule
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2/21 |
Introduction to Course Syllabus Background and Introduction to Innovation Management and Digital Transformation |
Self Introduction and Grouping |
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2 |
2/28 |
National Holiday |
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3 |
3/6 |
Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy Analysis Innovation Execution Analysis |
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4 |
3/13 |
Design Thinking |
Workshop |
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5 |
3/20 |
Value Proposition Canvas |
In-class exercise |
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6 |
3/27 |
Entrepreneurship Opportunity Identification |
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7 |
4/3 |
Preparation for Midterm |
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Case Study 1 |
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8 |
4/10 |
Business Model S-Curve |
In-class exercise |
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9 |
4/17 |
Midterm |
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Midterm |
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10 |
4/24 |
Group Discussion for Final Project Preparation |
(online session) |
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11 |
5/1 |
Digital Era and Digital Economy, Paradigm Shift |
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12 |
5/8 |
Digital Innovation Digital Transformation |
Workshop |
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13 |
5/15 |
Individual Team Meeting |
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14 |
5/22 |
Value Chain Innovation Strategy Ecosystem |
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Case Study 2 |
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15 |
5/29 |
Digital Platform Management Challenges of Digital Transformation |
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16 |
6/5 |
Final Project |
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17 |
6/12 |
Wrap Up |
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18 |
6/19 |
Review |
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The various in-class activities will include case discussion, in class exercise, workshop, class participation, and peer review. Students who are unable to attend class should please apply for a leave of absence in advance.
The case study reports are group assignments to train the students’ analytical skills of innovation management and digital transformation business cases. 3-4 questions shall be answered for each case. It should be a maximum of 2-pages, 12points Times New Roman/Arial, double-spaced.
The midterm examination is an in-class quiz to evaluate the students’ knowledge and understanding about innovation management and digital transformation.
The midterm examination comprises of true and false questions as well as open questions based on mini case analysis.
The final paper is a group assignment to understand the students’ knowledge about innovation management and digital transformation. Each group shall write and present a short review paper about an initiative regarding innovation management and/or digital transformation. This assignment should include the concepts from previous lessons, including the challenges faced in the innovation and digital transformation implementation, the implementation steps, the benefits of the innovation and digital transformation project and the students’ comments about the project.
It should be a maximum of 5-pages, 12points Times New Roman/Arial, double-spaced.