Course Title: Innovation and Product Management

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5129

Course Title: Innovation and Product Management

Portfolio: BUS

Nominal Hours: 60.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
MKTG7199L	City Campus	TAFE	650T TAFE Business	Face-to-Face or Workplace

Course Contact: Greg Cameron

Course Contact Phone: 9925 5518

Course Contact Email: gregory.cameron@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This course aims to help students to understand the issues involved in sustaining an organisational environment in which continuous improvement and learning are promoted and rewarded. It includes the impact of technology on organisational sustainability, developing options for continuous improvement, understanding innovation, entrepreneurial behaviour, change management, contingency planning and risk management.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	BSBMGT608A Manage innovation and continuous improvement
Elements:	Develop options for continuous improvement
	Implement innovative processes
	Review programmes, systems and processes

Learning Outcomes

At the successful completion of this competency, students will have demonstrated competency in the elements that make up this unit.

Overview of Assessment

Students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a particular competency to be deemed competent. Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
Assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including assignments, presentation and written test. Students are advised that they will be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.

Students will receive ongoing feedback on their progress in the course. Feedback on assessment will be given in a timely manner. They will be informed about how to improve their performance in the competency/course and what they need to do to be deemed competent or to gain a pass in the assessment.