Graduate Diploma in Enterprise (GD-ENT) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

1. Learning Goal

Graduates of this degree will be knowledgeable of all key aspects of leadership and management of innovation and new streams of value creation in organisational settings, including marketing, managing people, managing supply and strategic innovation management.

Learning objectives to achieve these goals.

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Understand and apply leadership and management of innovation body of knowledge that includes the understanding of recent developments in a discipline and/or area of professional practice, including innovation capabilities;
• Apply cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge in innovation and management to reflect critically on theory and professional practice or scholarship;
• Use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate complex ideas concepts at an abstract level, associated with innovation and enterprise management and their ability to achieve effective business / organisational outcomes.

2. Learning Goal

Graduates of this degree will be professional in their approach to Innovation Management.

Learning objectives to achieve these goals.

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Apply technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse, theorise about developments that contribute to high levels of innovation and enterprise performance outcomes;
• Demonstrate and use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate complex enterprise and innovation challenges at an abstract and at a practical level;
• Effectively investigate innovation and enterprise problems and opportunities, using communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences;
• Effectively apply methods of innovation and enterprise analysis.

3. Learning Goal

Graduates of this degree will be analytical in aspects of innovation and enterprise management.

Learning objectives to achieve these goals.

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Apply a body of knowledge that includes the understanding of recent developments in a analysing and optimising innovation and enterprise designs and their impact on business strategies;
• Apply cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of innovation and enterprise theories and when to choose and use various analytical approaches to underpin judgement;
• Apply technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse, theorise about new and emerging developments in innovation and enterprise and the analysis of innovation and enterprise problems and opportunities;
• Analyse innovation and enterprise management with creativity and initiative especially in new situations of professional practice.

Graduate attributes

Academically excellent

Our graduates will be expected to be:

• Knowledgeable of aspects of the innovation management and entrepreneurial activities related to value creation in organisations.

Knowledgeable across disciplines

Our graduates will be expected to be:

• Intellectually curious, creative and independent in thought.

Leaders in communities

Our graduates will be expected to be:

• Professional in their approach to innovation and entrepreneurship;
• Effective team members and collaborators;
• Ethical in their behaviour in leadership and organisation of innovation and entrepreneurship.