MSI5510 · Innovation to influence system change

Overview

Leadership toward sustainable development requires you to creatively address complex problems that are often systemic and politically charged. In this unit, you will creatively and collaboratively explore a real-world problem and build a strategic understanding of the problem's context and potential opportunities for change. This includes the ability to see the problem from different viewpoints, understand its past and current drivers, and consider alternate future paths for improvement. Having built this strategic understanding, you will then gain tactics and tools to innovate for sustainable change. You will practice with industry-relevant methods and develop personal skills required to design solutions across sectors and scales. These include rapid prototyping, stakeholder analysis, and communication techniques to win support for your innovative initiatives.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

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. Apply societal change and systems thinking theories and tools to make sense of complex real-world situations;
2. Evaluate interactions between organisations, communities and their social and political contexts and identify leverage points for change toward sustainable outcomes;
3. Analyse, select and use innovation processes to influence system change at different scales and through different mechanisms;
4. Collaboratively design, develop and persuasively communicate an innovative intervention project for a real-world sustainability challenge.

Workload

This will include independent self-paced work on online materials and assignments across the teaching period. It will also include synchronous (live) classes. These will be four 2-hour online evening workshops, and one 2-day on-campus intensive (16 hours in total). The combination of classes and independent work will total 144 hours.

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