| Course ID: | BUSN 4400. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Business, Systems, and Technology Innovation |
Course
Description: | The three main types of innovation that raise capital productivity are business models, systems, and technology. Students will learn how these innovations interact and co-evolve as each participant in an industry seeks to find a combination that raises its capital productivity above its peers. |
| Oasis Title: | Bus Sys Tech Innovation |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Students completing the course will be able to:
• Apply systems thinking principle to understand how a world of ecosystems operates and prospers through business, systems, and technology innovation.
• Use multiple interlocking frameworks to understand how systems and technology support business innovation and organizational strategy.
• Understand how technology can support five fundamental types of organizational systems.
• Analyze how emerging trends in the technology create transformational opportunities for new business models.
• Discuss the consequence of technology-driven ongoing societal and organizational revolutions.
• Recognize and design opportunities for improving the capital productivity of an organization through innovation. |
| Topical Outline: | • Ecosystems and systems principles
• The capital creation system
• Fundamental organizational systems
• Object-oriented enterprise design
• Environmental scanning
• Technological forecasting
• Systems dynamics
• Digital connectivity and digital products
• Recent technology innovations in hardware and software and their potential consequences for capital creation |