Develop ability to harness talents and expand personal and team capacity to solve a complex organizational problem. Students will work to develop themselves as a high performing team. Students will deepen their existing knowledge about teaming and collaboration while working to solve an organizational problem. As part of the process, they will also continue to increase their awareness of self and others. By the end of this course, students should know how to develop and support a high-performing team in their organization.

The fundamentals of statistical analysis, data visualization and business analytics with an emphasis on how to communicate effectively with data in a collaborative team environment. Working with a variety of data sources and software, work in teams to learn how to conduct descriptive and inferential statistics and apply it to business decision making. Understand tools for cleaning and preparing data sets in order to investigate relationships between variables, and to create visualizations to derive meaningful insights. More advanced topics will investigate modelling business decisions using analytical tools such as predictive analytics, multiple regression and decision analysis. Work in teams to develop and interpret models in a variety of applications to business decision making.

An understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and the ability to use and interpret financial reports. Business drivers, analysis techniques and a deeper understanding of organizational opportunities and challenges to effectively use financial data to support management decisions and planning.

Analyzing how organizations create value, or impact, is a foundational skill for management. The analysis begins with an understanding of an organization’s value chain and the processes it uses to achieve value and extends to the Business Model Canvas to explore an organization’s model for value creation. Develop skills in analyzing processes from a customer perspective using a design thinking approach and explore customer experience using customer journey maps. Design process innovations using a service design approach. Develop skills in product life-cycle assessment using a systems perspective, and use a design thinking approach to propose reductions in environmental impacts within a product life-cycle.

Project management skills will be developed using both plan-based and agile approaches. Agile methods will include SCRUM techniques. Project management techniques are reinforced with development of a business case using data from enterprise systems. Data integration skills, including structured query language, are introduced and used to develop and present a business case.

Economic models that influence and affect business management. Understand how consumers and firms make economic and business decisions and how they interact in markets. Understand major decision-making areas confronting modern financial managers today. A general understanding of financial markets and how they can be used for personal finance. Covers traditional subjects such as capital budgeting, net present value, risk/return, capital structure and corporate governance.

Progress within organizations and society depends not only on innovative ideas but also on persuasion – the ability of innovators to get others to adopt these ideas. This course is designed to provide students with a road-map from understanding organizations’ and consumers’ marketing environments, to collecting and interpreting marketing data, to creating innovative marketing strategies, to effectively communicating these strategies and ideas. The foundations of the course include: (1) an introduction to marketing concepts and research (including digital marketing), (2) the development of a brand (for products, services or people including yourself), (3) presentation design and delivery, and (4) strategic selling and storytelling.

The opportunity to apply student learning in the context of a management challenge outside of the classroom. An emphasis is placed on the integration of learning across the core program and reflective practice. Student will integrate their knowledge across courses using an experience outside of the traditional classroom and work in a team to achieve a goal. The course serves as an opportunity to apply skills on a significant management challenge and to reflect on, and communicate about, students’ management practices.