Innovation and Organisational Change

Explore strategic innovation models and develop a strategic change program using different tools, including Ansoff, Balanced scorecard and the Balogun and Hope-Hailey model for strategic change. You’ll also write a business plan.

What you’ll learn

In this stackable short course (microcredential), you’ll:

• investigate a range of generic business strategies utilised by organisations in order to achieve a sustainable position in the market
• apply strategic analysis tools to identify change drivers in an organisational context
• propose a specific type of change plan that would benefit an organisation’s position in the market.

Job outcomes

• apply strategic innovation models to assess the need for change.
• evaluate frameworks for strategic innovation.
• plan a change management program using tools such as Ansoff and balanced scorecard to obtain stakeholder funding and support.
• create a business plan as a strategic change management and communication tool to validate and ensure organisational fit.

How you’re assessed

Your assessment task requires you to formulate a plan for a strategic change program (2500 words). It is designed to develop your capability to select from alternative models and to apply these to a specific change program, innovation or strategic initiative.

Co-designed with industry

This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University; Cathryn Nolan, Senior Knowledge Lawyer at Hall & Willcox; and Mark Cameron, CEO of W3. Digital. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.

Stackable or standalone

This microcredential can be completed to receive a standalone credential or stacked together with related stackable microcredentials to build towards a full postgraduate Deakin degree later.

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Innovation and Organisational Change
-Diagnose the need for organisational change and develop a strategic change program.