PV237 Strategy and Leadership

Fakulta informatiky
podzim 2015
Rozsah
2/0/2. 2 kr. (plus ukončení). Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
Matteo Olivieri, Ph.D. (přednášející), Mgr. Jitka Kitner (zástupce)
Ing. Leonard Walletzký, Ph.D. (pomocník)
Garance
doc. RNDr. Eva Hladká, Ph.D.
Katedra počítačových systémů a komunikací – Fakulta informatiky
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra počítačových systémů a komunikací – Fakulta informatiky
Rozvrh
Út 20. 10. 18:00–19:50 A217, St 21. 10. 18:00–19:50 A217, Čt 22. 10. 18:00–19:50 A217, Pá 23. 10. 12:00–13:50 A318, Po 26. 10. 12:00–13:50 A217, 16:00–17:50 A217, Út 27. 10. 10:00–11:50 A318, 14:00–15:50 A217, Čt 29. 10. 12:00–13:50 D3, 18:00–19:50 A217, Pá 30. 10. 10:00–13:50 A318, Po 2. 11. 8:00–9:50 D2
Předpoklady
No pre-requisities are compulsory.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
PV237 Strategy and Leadership (S&L) is a 2 or 3 weeks course delivered in the Fall term. The course consists of 3 weekly four-hour sessions which will include lectures, case studies, student presentations, and class discussions. The course offers a comprehensive Strategy and Leadership curriculum that prepares people to assume greater responsibility in our society, amid a global environment facing increasing challenges. Designed for people with an interest in strategic issues, the course aims to forge outstanding leaders who can improve the company's business model and profitability by leveraging distinctive knowledge through analytical skills and sound judgment.
Osnova
  • PV237 Strategy and Leadership explores the evolving role of people in organizations. Making winning decisions, not just efficiently managing resources, is the ultimate weapon of strategically oriented organizations that want to gain a sustained edge on the market. When a crisis hits, there is no option but to change. True leaders take on responsibility for change, search for excellence, look for sinkholes in current thinking, embrace new paradigms and ensure that new patterns are analyzed, discussed, and pursued. The PV237’s goal is to help students make sense of strategic change, build their visionary capacity, anticipate the next, and set the right priorities to let organizations thrive. Lecture topics include: where good ideas come from; how to challenge entrenched businesses; why people make mistakes when preparing for hazards; how to recognize or prevent cognitive biases; how to understand group dynamics, how to promote and organize a culture that rewards innovation.
  • Learning objectives
  • At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
  • • Understand how innovative organizations generate new thinking to enhance their competitive position;
  • • Demonstrate how organizations break down silos and cognitive biases;
  • • Explain how organizations foster a common culture to master uncertainty and promote social, economic and environmental change;
  • • Identify what conditions make synergy possible.
Literatura
    doporučená literatura
  • Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad (1989), Strategic Intent. In Harvard Business Review, May-June (article)
  • Richard P. Rumelt (2011), The perils of bad strategy. In Mckinsey Quarterly, June (article)
  • Cynthia A. Montgomery, “The Strategist: Be the Leader your Business Needs”. Harvard Business School, 2012
  • Henry Mintzberg (1987), Crafting Strategy. In Harvard Business Review, July-Aug (article)
  • Gary Hamel (1996), Strategy as revolution. In Harvard Business Review, July-August (article)
Výukové metody
Lectures, discussion sessions, class meetings, presentation.
Metody hodnocení
The course must be completed in a traditional classroom setting: 100% class attendance is mandatory. Exceptionally, students may obtain a prior approval from the instructor. Without approval, a student may lose the right to take the final exam. ... Extra-curricular activities are not mandatory, although strongly recommended in order to let students develop the right mind-set to comprehend the lecture topics and gain a substantial experience from the course.
Compulsory assignments A mid-term assignment (so called “project”) is mandatory with assessment: passed/not passed. Student teams will address strategic and leadership issues of their choice to be agreed in advance. Depending on the number of officially registered students, each team will deliver a 10-to-15 minute presentation, with a slide deck and a summary handout. A negative assessment will result in an immediate failure and no right to take the final exam.
Assessment To receive a passing grade, students have to show that they have gained sufficient subject matter knowledge. To accomplish these objectives, students are required to have a positive grade in the two-step examination process. First step (weighted 30%): midterm team-presentation where students’ performance is evaluated both in terms of single contribution and as a group; Second step: (weighted 70%): in-class final essay on a given subject. Submission of incomplete or plagiarized work will not be accepted and will be evaluated as unsatisfactory without any chance to re-submit updated work. The date of in-class final examination will be announced according to schedule. Students are strongly encouraged to check the final (exam-) schedule before registering for the course. The student must also take responsibility for taking the examinations as scheduled. The SSME Program coordinator is responsible for resolving any difficulties directly with the examiner.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
The course must be completed in a traditional classroom setting: 100% class attendance is mandatory. Exceptionally, students may obtain a prior approval from the instructor. Without approval, a student may lose the right to take the final exam. ... Extra-curricular activities are not mandatory, although strongly recommended in order to let students develop the right mind-set to comprehend the lecture topics and gain a substantial experience from the course.
Final schedule will be published later. The students will be allowed to cancel their enrollment in this course with no sanction in case PV237 should cross with their regularly taught courses.
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