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GMBA8013 – Be Disruptive

2025 – Coursera term 4, Online-scheduled-weekday

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Joseph McIvor
joseph.mcivor@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
5
Prerequisites Prerequisites
Admission to GMBA or GradCertGlobalBusPrac
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

How can disruptive strategic thinking be deployed to develop or protect competitive advantage? The most innovative and successful companies today have all managed to fundamentally disrupt and reshape existing industries, or create completely new ones. What are the strategies, business models, and technologies that lie behind this? Is the strategic thinking that is required to successfully compete in today's digital world actually different? And how could you deploy disruptive strategic thinking to reshape your own company and industry?

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Define a range of disruptive technologies and their implications on organisations and industry sectors
  • ULO2: Develop strategies and approaches to create innovative business models
  • ULO3: Apply strategic thinking and tools to evaluate the impact of new innovations and the plausibility of successfully adoption

General Assessment Information

Late Assessment Submission Penalty (written assessments)

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:59pm(Sydney time). A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern.

For any late submissions of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to apply for Special Consideration

 

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Case analysis - Disruptive project 40% No Monday 21st July 11:59pm(Sydney time)
Case analysis - Business model innovation 60% No Monday 11th August at 11:59pm(Sydney time).

Case analysis - Disruptive project

Assessment Type 1: Case study/analysis
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Monday 21st July 11:59pm(Sydney time)
Weighting: 40%

 

Length: max 1,000 words (excl. references) Format: Written report Task: In this written report, you will analyse the strategies that you adopted in a run of the assigned simulation. Please refer to the section Course Resources - Assessment Information in your online unit for detailed information on this assignment as well as the marking criteria. You will be asked to submit your completed task via the Assignment submission link in your online unit.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Define a range of disruptive technologies and their implications on organisations and industry sectors
  • Apply strategic thinking and tools to evaluate the impact of new innovations and the plausibility of successfully adoption

Case analysis - Business model innovation

Assessment Type 1: Case study/analysis
Indicative Time on Task 2: 14 hours
Due: Monday 11th August at 11:59pm(Sydney time).
Weighting: 60%

 

Length: 1,800 - 2,000 words (excl. references) Format: Written report Task: In this written report, you will be asked to identify an industry and analyse how an innovative and potentially disruptive product or service has been implemented through business model innovation in that industry.​ Please refer to the section Course Resources - Assessment Information in your online unit for detailed information on this assignment as well as the marking criteria. You will be asked to submit your completed task via the Assignment submission link in your online unit.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Define a range of disruptive technologies and their implications on organisations and industry sectors
  • Develop strategies and approaches to create innovative business models
  • Apply strategic thinking and tools to evaluate the impact of new innovations and the plausibility of successfully adoption

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

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Unit information based on version 2025.01R of the Handbook