We have more data than ever before, but businesses need to convert this data into knowledge. Analysing big data lets organisations gain intelligence and improve their decision-making and performance.

This module will show you how to tap into insights from data, and find solutions to complex problems.

Get an introduction to the principles of financial reporting and decision making. Through relating your studies to your own work, you’ll learn to:

• understand how your decisions can affect your organisation’s financial performance
• extract useful decision-making information by analysing financial statements
• contribute effectively to discussions on funding alternatives, investment opportunities and company valuations

Disruptive technologies are changing the business landscape. They’re creating new opportunities for some while threatening the survival of others.

Explore the latest developments in disruptive technologies including areas like:

• artificial intelligence
• big data
• machine learning
• decision support systems
• cryptocurrencies and blockchain
• robotics
• fintech
• smart cities

You will look at innovation as a way of introducing disruptive thinking (and technology) into organisations.

Engage with leadership theory in a practical way. You’ll explore different aspects of leadership and examine the impact of a lack of effective leadership in organisations and society. Find out how interventions can bring about positive change in today’s complex world.

What do Amazon, Apple, Toyota, Inditex and Dyson have in common? They have built their success on exceptional operations and supply network capabilities.

In any type of organisation, sustainable value requires excellence in operations and supply networks.

This module will improve your understanding of:

• the technical and quantitative performance of any system
• customer and employee behaviour in that system

The working world is constantly changing. Through this module, you’ll learn how to become resilient and help your organisation become ‘future fit’. Develop and implement strategy with environmental, social, and economic value. Understand and respond to ethical and sustainability challenges and opportunities.

Employees are a company’s biggest asset. Explore the emerging field of human resource management (HRM), discuss the latest research and examine contemporary examples of best and worst practice.

You will:

• explore the strategic alignment of HRM to internal and external challenges and opportunities
• discuss how to manage people in an environment that increasingly relies on cross-boundary employment
• learn how to manage valuable people that you don’t employ, and how to employ knowledge workers who may be difficult to manage

Strategic management is a broad field of study. This module will draw on a wide range of disciplines including economics, sociology, psychology and natural sciences.

You’ll use analytical concepts and methods to understand how an organisation can:

• create and use competitive advantage
• compete in particular markets
• develop its range of businesses and activities

Develop your understanding of the concepts, theories and applications needed to succeed in marketing. This module covers marketing terms, principles, concepts and strategies, both online and offline.

You’ll apply these concepts to real-world situations and analyse your own experiences.

Entrepreneurial skills are in strong demand. Develop your entrepreneurial mindset. This module will strengthen these skills:

• active perception
• creativity
• flexibility
• experimentation
• reflection