26844 Structured Thinking and Planning

Description

This subject focuses on developing students’ structured thinking and planning skills. It is highly applied and framed as a consulting project, through which students learn and apply structured thinking and planning concepts, tools and techniques. Students choose a context to work with and propose and undertake a small project with the objective of offering recommendations and a plan for addressing a complex challenge. They conduct structured research and analysis to evaluate customer needs, organisational resources, capabilities, processes and revenue streams, the competitive environment and relevant trends and technologies. Based on insights from their research, they chose a problem-solving approach and design a high-level strategic plan for addressing the complex challenge.