Start Date between Nov 22 and Nov 25

This module equips students with the concepts, theories, and frameworks that will support them in analysing, planning and evaluating sustainable business practices. The module provides students with an insight into how sustainability has moved from a PR exercise to the core of strategic planning. It is no longer regarded as a burden but an accelerator for a company’s long-term success.

The module provides a foundation for exploring enterprise, innovation and sustainability. Key issues covered include: - Enterprise, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. - Sustainable Development Goals and the potential for entrepreneurship and innovation to address them. - Ideas and opportunities, and creative techniques for generating business ideas. - Innovation and invention. Sources/ drivers of innovation, the 10 types of innovation, innovation strategies, and implementing change and overcoming barriers to innovation. - Feasibility analysis, including industry and market feasibility analysis, financial feasibility analysis and entrepreneur feasibility analysis. - Why business models matter. Business Model Canvas in full detail. Lean start-up. Case examples. Through studying the module, students will appreciate the complexities associated with entrepreneurship and be able to discuss and debate these complexities in an informed and critical manner.

Students will have the opportunity to examine current practice in supply chains/networks and organisational operations ( including, but not limited to design, procurement and logistics) and contrast mainstream approaches to these practices with viewpoints which emphasise sustainability best practices in the evaluation and delivery of these functions. The module will help to identify the key drivers that incentivise or mandate the adoption of sustainability best-practices across a range of levels from Government policy to consumer pressure as well as the potential barriers or restraining forces which may impede the adoption of such. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate such practices in an organisational setting (their own, or another with which they are familiar), design and set out rational arguments for appropriate targets for change and set out plans to effectively deliver such change in the organisational setting.

This module is designed to help students develop and demonstrate the skills required to carry out a substantial individual project in a chosen aspect of business and sustainability. Core skills for conducting the individual project are first developed through guided online learning. At the start of the research project students are allocated a supervisor who will work with the student on a one-to-one basis and may also facilitate some small group meetings in addition to one-to-one supervision.

This module is designed to help students develop and demonstrate the skills required to carry out a substantial individual project in a chosen aspect of business and sustainability. Core skills for conducting the individual project are first developed through guided online learning. At the start of the research project students are allocated a supervisor who will work with the student on a one-to-one basis and may also facilitate some small group meetings in addition to one-to-one supervision.