School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Business Innovation Project
  • Unit Code

    MBA6077
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jalleh SHARAFIZAD

Description

In this unit, students complete a work-based, consulting, or applied research project designed to enhance innovative capability within an organisation. The aim of the unit is to assist students in applying their knowledge and skills to unstructured, authentic problems through dynamic interaction within a genuine and often changeable engagement context for the benefit of diverse stakeholders.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over six weeks.

Equivalent Rule

Unit equivalent to BUS6500

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply advanced discipline-based skills, knowledge, practices and behaviours in the context of the organisation and a specific project task.
  2. Evaluate complex ideas, information and concepts in the specific management discipline.
  3. Design a business strategy, innovation, enhancement, or improvement initiative that enhances organisational capability.

Unit Content

  1. Recognise and assess strategic opportunities.
  2. Execute processes required to conduct professional quality industry and market analysis.
  3. Apply fact-based and intuitive abilities to foresee and manage strategic implementation and control issues.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over six weeks. Students’ will navigate resources, videos, academic and non-academic readings in order to engage with, and complete, weekly learning activities and assessments and will have access to a learning facilitator, who can respond to their queries, and provide tailored feedback on tasks. This unit provides an applied learning experience that consolidates and demonstrates learning in the postgraduate program as well as producing useful results for real organisations.c Students’ must complete their project on an approved public, private or non-profit organisation. The unit aims to integrate knowledge acquired over each student's degree studies. It requires the application of that knowledge to authentic, real-life organisational / industry settings,, resulting in the provision of evidence-supported business solutions that are actionable by the organisation/ industry. Through undertaking their project, students’ will be expected to effectively perform and meet both the needs of their assigned organisation, as well as complete the unit's assessment requirements. Students’ are expected to work autonomously, show initiative and generate ideas relating to their assigned tasks in the workplace.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectIndividual project idea and proposal20%
ProjectInnovation project final presentation30%
ProjectInnovation project final report50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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