BEX3351 · Global collaboration projects

Overview

How do organisations compete, collaborate, and solve problems across borders? What does it take to bring rigorous, integrated business thinking to bear on real challenges facing globally operating organisations? In this project-based unit, you will work as part of a consulting team on a live project challenge set by a real client. The client will either be a globally operating organisation or present a challenge with significant international dimensions. The specific challenge will vary, reflecting the genuine complexity and unpredictability of global business practice. You will draw on the full breadth of your business education, integrating theory and practice across strategy, analytics, finance, marketing, operations and other business disciplines. You will think and work as real consulting teams, learning to navigate ambiguity, synthesise diverse perspectives, and apply contemporary digital tools to frame and solve complex problems. By the end of this unit, you will have experienced what it means to work collaboratively under real-world conditions, managing a client relationship, presenting evidence-based recommendations with confidence, and reflecting critically on your own contribution to shared team outcomes.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. determine client needs to define a project scope and approach informed by business evidence and contemporary practice within a global context
2. communicate evolving project insights, outputs and recommendations clearly, professionally and appropriately to stakeholders operating globally
3. produce industry-standard project deliverables and recommendations as a coherent business solution that is evidence-based and appropriate for a global context
4. evaluate personal and team development using industry-standard feedback practices, digital tools, and collaborative approaches that value diverse perspectives in complex global project contexts
5. apply business frameworks, analytical methods and digital tools within a consulting process to effectively address a global challenge.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities, project team activities and independent study. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed, industry directed, peer directed and online engagement activities, some of which may be offsite. Project team activities are self-directed and may include project planning and coordination, research and output development and stakeholder management. While this is a primarily team-based unit, some independent study will be required and may include associated research, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. You are expected to complete all pre-class activities prior to your scheduled class, and post-class activities should be completed after your scheduled class.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.