MSc Enterprise Management

The aim of this module is to provide you with the practical skills and theoretical knowledge of setting up, managing, or growing your own venture. You will learn about the entrepreneurial mindset and how your own management style can influence the growth and direction of your business.

You will develop a toolkit of business start-up concepts including finance methods, business planning, market research, human resources, marketing and legal, including registering your venture. You will investigate several high profile and successful business start-ups as well as learning from businesses who got it wrong, so you don’t make the same mistakes.

You will have the opportunity to undertake a free Enterprise 8-week start-up programme alongside the main degree programme.

With the fast pace of change and uncertain times, strategic innovation and change have never been more important. The aim of this module is to provide you with the skills and theoretical knowledge of innovation for strategic change, including how to manage your own creative personality and how to drive your ideas through an organisation. You will cover the impact of rapid digital change, the intensification of global competition, and how innovation stems from an organisation's creative environment and culture.

The module will draw on theories of innovative cultures and creativity, examine the sociological and economic aspects, and look at theories of the firm in relation to design and composition for innovation. You will also examine the barriers to creativity and reflect on a range of case studies that demonstrate the impact of innovation worldwide.

As the world enters the fourth industrial revolution, you don't want to get left behind. This module focuses on a wide range of concepts that prepare you to lead an organisation through a time of rapid change and disruption. We will focus on you as an ethical leader, developing values of sustainability, well-being and flexibility for your team as well as examining how digital transformation will impact on your business and on the lives of your customers.

Interconnectedness is at the heart of industry 4.0, and we will examine the rise of social enterprises and the ethical consumer and how innovations in artificial intelligence, augmented reality and robotics can improve your venture’s ability to be agile and constantly evolve. 

Entrepreneurs need to be great decision makers. In many cases the buck will stop with you, and you won’t have a huge team around you to share the risk. This module teaches you about decision-making theory, examines how to create a team of effective decision makers and gives you the diagnostic tools to formulate, assess, screen, and reach the required outcome.

You will also learn how to evaluate previous decisions, so you don’t make the same mistake twice. Finally, you will examine data sources and learn how to gather and manipulate information to reach a balanced business decision.

On this module, you will extend your language and research skills for communicating effectively in the world of international business and management. This module supports your development of the language, communication and research skills needed in the world of international business and management through the application of key business concepts and frameworks to real business case studies from various organisations.

The activities you carry out will also raise awareness of your own use of language in business communication. You will be placed in groups based on your incoming language ability to allow for specific language development opportunities.

The module extends and develops your knowledge and ability in focusing upon, and preparing for, industry research. It introduces you to the disciplines of research techniques, data analysis as well as the design and execution of a research project. 
 
The project can take various forms including a traditional dissertation, generating a new enterprise start-up plan, developing a business, or marketing campaign, proposing new processes/systems/products/target markets. 
 
The aim is to develop your skills and expertise in the essential research tools you will need for both successful postgraduate study and as self-employed entrepreneurs or managers of the future.