MSc Knowledge Management for Innovation

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Cranfield University - School of Applied Sciences

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• Entry requirements
  Candidates must possess, or be expected to achieve, a 1st or 2nd class UK Honours degree in a relevant discipline, or the international equivalent of these UK qualifications. Other relevant qualifications, together with significant experience, may be considered.
• Academic title
  MSc Knowledge Management for Innovation
• Course description
  In an increasingly competitive environment, where new business practices and products are regularly introduced, organisations have to be innovative to survive. Such innovation is dependent upon companies developing effective knowledge management internally as well as through external interaction.
  
  This course aims to create the next generation of technical and business leaders who can drive strategic innovation and collaboration by effective management of organisational knowledge within their specialised domains.
  

  
  The course develops leadership skills, teamworking skills, creativity and knowledge, enabling individuals to implement management practice to aid the development of business.
  
  It prepares students for a career in engineering extended enterprise by combining rigorous academic activity and practical work with the use of industry software and real-life experience through industry sponsored project work.
  
  Students benefit from access to SAP R/3, a CAD workstation, state-of-the-art software, engineering server facilities and CAM facilities.
  
  

  The MSc course comprises eight assessed modules, a group project and an individual project.
  
  Group project
  
  This project, usually undertaken within a company, provides students with the opportunity to take responsibility for a consultancy-type project, while working under academic supervision. Success is dependent on the integration of various activities, working within agreed objectives, deadlines and budgets. For part-time students a dissertation usually replaces the group project.
  
  Individual project
  
  Students select the individual project in consultation with the Course Director. The individual project provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to carry out independent research, think and work in an original way, contribute to knowledge, and overcome genuine problems. The projects are sponsored by external organisations.
  

  Modules:
  The modules include lectures and tutorials and are assessed either by written examination or assignment. Guest lecturers from industry are invited to provide real-life case studies for the taught modules.
  

  • Knowledge Acquisition and Creation
  • Enterprise Systems 
  • Data Management
  • Strategic Knowledge Management
  • General Management
  • Knowledge System Design
  • Innovation
  • Enterprise Modelling

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