Master of Business Administration / Master of Strategic Foresight
Overview
This is a new double masters offers students a unique and exciting opportunity to gain two masters awards; a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Strategic Foresight (MSF).
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| Duration | 2 Year/s | ||
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| Course code | CMBF680 | ||
| CRICOS code | 075454E | ||
| Fees* | A$23,250 (annual for 2013)* |
*The indicative course fees shown in Course Search apply to international students studying on-campus in Australia for the relevant year only. They are based on a standard study load per year. However, please note that fees are assessed according to a student's study load in each semester, and variation to study load will result in an adjustment to tuition fees. All fees are subject to annual review and may be adjusted.
Course in detail
Course description
The Swinburne MBA offers not only the opportunity to acquire contemporary management knowledge and skills but, more importantly, it provides students with the ability to apply that knowledge in innovative, creative and entrepreneurial ways. We develop skilled managers and competent leaders who are entrepreneurially oriented, globally focused and socially conscious in a diverse and complex world. Specifically our MBA prepares students to engage and deal with uncertainty, change and opportunity in the environments in which their organisations operate.
Broadly, our MBA program is designed to:
- Develop skilled and competent managers and leaders who are entrepreneurially oriented, globally aware and socially conscious in a world of uncertainty, change and complexity
- Meet the demands of business and industry to achieve and sustain international competitive advantage
- Enable students to have more rewarding and satisfying career outcomes
Our MBA is focused on developing students’ capabilities to operate in organisationally critical domains of practice that we have identified as fundamental to their own and their organisations’ success in today’s turbulent environment. These domains of practice are not the same as subjects or streams. They can play out across many subjects and are:
- Strategy
- Leadership
- Global focus
- Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Life-long learning
- Ethical and social responsibility - both individual and organisational
The MSF will provide a sound theoretical and practical foundation for the successful practice of strategic foresight in many fields. The master program will primarily appeal to those people who are already high achievers, part-way through a career path and who wish to develop proactive approaches to their work, or perhaps to change direction. To these ends, the program provides the necessary grounding in future studies and foresight work as well as a range of applied implementation options.
(Students holding an international student visa are required to study full-time and on campus and cannot take the other study modes.)
Course structure
To qualify for the award of Master of Business Administration/Master of Strategic Foresight, students must complete 14 units of study (200 credit points) comprising:
- Eight core MBA units of study (12.5 credit points each), and
- Two double core MSF units of study (25 credit points each), and
- Four elective MSF units of study (12.5 credit points each)
(Students holding an international student visa are required to study full-time and on campus and cannot take the other study modes.)
Units of study
Master of Business Adminsration core units
HBC480 Accounting Information and Managerial Decision Making
HBM480 Strategic and Entrepreneurial Marketing
HBO480 Leading
HBS481 Operations Management or HBR482 Management Analysis and Problem-solving
HBC580 Business Finance and Quantitative Analysis
HBH582 Workforce Leadership and Strategy (previously HBH580/HBH680) or HBO580 Managing Diversity and Culture
HBS580 Business Strategy
HBO682 Leadership for Innovation (previously HBO680)
HBC480 Accounting Information and Managerial Decision Making
HBM480 Strategic and Entrepreneurial Marketing
HBO480 Leading
HBS481 Operations Management or HBR482 Management Analysis and Problem-solving
HBC580 Business Finance and Quantitative Analysis
HBH582 Workforce Leadership and Strategy (previously HBH580/HBH680) or HBO580 Managing Diversity and Culture
HBS580 Business Strategy
HBO682 Leadership for Innovation (previously HBO680)
Master of Strategic Foresight core units
HBF720 Foresight Knowledge & Methods 1 (25 credit points)
HBF721 Foresight Knowledge & Methods 2 (25 credit points)
HBF720 Foresight Knowledge & Methods 1 (25 credit points)
HBF721 Foresight Knowledge & Methods 2 (25 credit points)
Master of Strategic Foresight elective units
Students choose four units from the following list (each unit 12.5 credit points):
HBF630 Sustainability, Risk and Corporate Responsibility
HBF631 Integral Thinking and Complexity (previously HBF546)
HBF632 Foresight Leadership (previously HBF542)
HBF633 21st Century Challenges (previously HBF545)
HBF634 Foresight and Design
HBF630 Sustainability, Risk and Corporate Responsibility
HBF631 Integral Thinking and Complexity (previously HBF546)
HBF632 Foresight Leadership (previously HBF542)
HBF633 21st Century Challenges (previously HBF545)
HBF634 Foresight and Design
Graduate outcomes
Aims and objectives
We work with our MBA students to build their capabilities so that they are better able to engage with the following key practice challenges:
- Create and lead effective teams and build robust collaborative relationships across organisational boundaries
- Guide deep individual and organisational learning under conditions of change and complexity
- Foster a culture of entrepreneurship
- Keep self and others focused and energetic when issues are complex and challenging
- Evaluate a business opportunity and make the business case for change
- Construct an effective marketing plan
- Contribute to the development of a strategy for a single or multi-business unit
- Evaluate and advise on the financial implications of strategic and operational plans
- Help an organisation maintain a useful global awareness
- Diagnose the appropriateness of an organisation's human, financial and information resources and systems
- Effectively explain the financial state of an organisation to a lay audience
- Help an organisation recruit, reward and retain good people
- Create workplaces where people can be fully present and able to engage constructively with intellectually and emotionally challenging tasks
- Develop organisational cultures that truly value diversity of all kinds in a global world
- Lead significant change for a business unit and its people
- Devise and implement forms of accountability and governance that ensure ethical and sustainable corporate governance
At the completion of the MBA program, it is expected that students will be able to:
- Apply critical thinking and integrative learning to evaluate problems, uncover assumptions and differentiate information from a range of disciplines as well as from personal experience
- Display creative thinking to a range of problem solving and decision making techniques to demonstrate entrepreneurial leadership in their field
- Develop quantitative literacy skills to interrogate quantitative information and systematically analyse it to support the decision making process
- Critically analyse theories and information drawn from literature, research and personal experience in a range of professional contexts
- Use oral and written communication skills to inform and persuade others in a clear and concise manner to a professional business standard
- Self-reflect to develop reflective practitioner skills, learning how to learn and how to use learning as a leadership skill and process
- Behave ethically and honestly in working with others in their academic and professional contexts, their private, public and community lives
- Demonstrate alertness and sensitivity to the impact of culture on own world view and the world view of others within a global context
At the completion of the MSF program, it is expected that students will be able to:
- Evaluate problems and uncover assumptions using theories and information from a range of disciplines as well as from personal experience
- Integrate learning across disciplines, over time and between academic, employment and personal spheres
- Research independently and explore with others those business or societal challenges and opportunities than have either not emerged onto current agendas or which are ‘unsolved’ because of the limitation of current understanding
- Generate creative solutions to issues arising from the processes involved in the application of strategic foresight methodologies
- Inform and persuade others through presentations, processes or writing that is tailored to the situation and to stakeholder requirements
- Write clearly and concisely to a professional standard
- Use reflective practice to learn how to reason morally and ethically about the management of ‘wicked problems’ that could require the trade-off of the rights and responsibilities of a range of stakeholders in the future
Career opportunities
Students’ career opportunities are enhanced by improving their leadership and management capabilities, and learning to operate effectively in a changing, complex and turbulent environment. Graduates will be in a unique position to be well placed for a successful career in foresight and strategy in a range of organisations, including government policy areas and niche consulting firms with a focus on strategy and sustainability. Those who master knowledge and skills in this innovative field will be well placed to become leaders in a wide range of fields.
Course experience
Swinburne Abroad
Swinburne offers International Exchange Programs as well as other Education Abroad Programs to help internationalise your degree. International Exchange is an academic program allowing you to study at a Swinburne Partner Institution for one or two semesters during your degree. Swinburne's Partner Institutions offer many relevant subjects as well as a secure base to explore a different culture. Your studies whilst on exchange can be credited towards your Swinburne degree, provided they are relevant and approved by Swinburne. For further information visit the Swinburne Abroad website.Entry requirements
Academic requirements
The formal admission requirement for the MBA program is an appropriate undergraduate qualification at a credit level from a recognised institution as well as a minimum of three years work experience.
Candidates who do not hold an appropriate qualification but who have significant relevant work experience (usually at least five years) and evidence of academic capability may be admitted initially to the graduate certificate. Progression to enrolment in the masters program requires completion of the requirements for gaining the graduate certificate.
Candidates who do not hold an appropriate qualification but who have significant relevant work experience (usually at least five years) and evidence of academic capability may be admitted initially to the graduate certificate. Progression to enrolment in the masters program requires completion of the requirements for gaining the graduate certificate.
English language requirements
Swinburne College English for Academic Purposes Certificate: EAP 5 Advanced: 70%; OR, obtaining a minimum IELTS overall band of 6.5 (Academic Module) with no individual band below 6.0; OR, a TOEFL (Paper-based) minimum score of 550 (with Test of Written English (TWE) score of 5); OR, a TOEFL (Internet-based) minimum score of 79, with no individual band below 18. Refer to the English Language Requirements website for further information.
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Course fees*
A$23,250 (annual for 2013)*The indicative course fees shown in Course Search apply to international students studying on-campus in Australia for the relevant year only. They are based on a standard study load per year. However, please note that fees are assessed according to a student's study load in each semester, and variation to study load will result in an adjustment to tuition fees. All fees are subject to annual review and may be adjusted.
Scholarships
A range of scholarships are available to international students, visit our Scholarship Page for details.
Find out more
Enquire online: http://www.swinburne.edu.au/international/enquiry
Email: international@swinburne.edu.au
Phone:
+613 8676 7002 (outside Australia)
Freecall 1800 897 973 (within Australia)
