This module aims to enhance your critical understanding of leadership theories and models:

• Review and adopt leadership and management concepts within your current and future career roles.
• Gain understanding of the characteristics, behaviours, and attitudes of the workforce consisting of Millennials and Generation Z in order to build robust relationships and utilize their capabilities effectively.
• Identify your leadership styles, behaviours, and attitudes through a range of professional tests, which helps you develop your professional identity.

This module also includes a 2-day residential event where you will participate in a variety of practical activities and deal with complex scenarios. Through expert feedback and reflective practice, you will be able to explore the practical implementation of the concepts learned and enhance your interpersonal and intrapersonal capabilities.

In this module, you will develop strategic thinking knowledge and skills and apply these in the context of sustainability and ethical decision-making

• Develop an understanding of stakeholder analysis i.e. both internal (customers, finance, operations, HR, IT), as well external partners.
• Develop knowledge and practical skills in how to create a culture of innovation and lead organisational change.
• Explore the role of digital technology in the context of innovation and change and digital strategy.
• Gain key understanding to develop entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial opportunities in business enterprises.

This module will introduce you to project management principles and practices to implement data analytics projects

• Develop practical skills in data analytics and agile project management by using hands-on ‘learn by doing’ and ‘project-based’ approaches.
• Learn project management concepts, methodologies and tools including agile approaches.
• Explore real-world problem and develop data analytics and business intelligence solutions using an agile project management approach throughout the semester.
• Develop team working, collaboration, adaptability, and leadership skills to deliver business solutions.

The knowledge and skills obtained from this module will prepare you to take on roles such as data analyst, business analyst, BI Analyst, Project Manager, or similar roles.

In this module, you will work in teams to make strategic decisions in a realistic simulated environment and learn how to balance competing priorities to achieve sustained competitive advantage.

The simulation environment will combine theory and practice to enable you to develop in-depth knowledge and skills in a variety of business functional areas.

• Learn through a hands-on problem-solving approach using the Design Thinking framework.
• Explore and understand market dynamics and competition.
• Visualize business insights, develop ideas, test strategies in a simulated environment, and refine them.

In this module, you will explore the future of business and management by closely investigating the globalisation of companies, industries, and countries.

You will learn and critically analyse various concepts, theories, academic models and real-life case studies of international companies, industries, cities, and countries.

• Understand contemporary international business and management practices.
• Consider a diverse range of contemporary global issues of corporate governance and regulation.
• Critically examine the opportunities, mitigating risk, and creating value for an organisation.

In this module, you will be actively engaged in research-rich learning through Research Led and Research Tutored learning. You will be introduced to strategic marketing models developed based on research and asked to discuss their implementation through a critical lens.

• Explore tools, methods, data analysis frameworks, and metric measurement and use these to analyse websites and e-commerce stores.
• Evaluate various scenarios to improve marketing processes and strategic marketing decisions.
• Work in groups to analyse, compare, and contrast various options and propose the most appropriate option to grow conversion rates on websites and business performance.

This module is designed to build your confidence and capabilities as a postgraduate student and researcher, as well as provide you with the graduate skills needed to progress into high-skilled employment or doctoral study.

• Develop your academic skills and overall employability.
• Build upon your presentation skills, effective teamworking, and advanced search skills.
• Gain the confidence to synthesise information from multiple sources.
• Learn about how to structure your dissertation proposal.
• Be introduced to a range of additional careers and employability workshops.
• Work alongside your research supervisor to complete your final research project/dissertation.