Innovation & Entrepreneurship Assignment Brief
The aim of the assignment is to provide students with the opportunity of exploring:
- The role and value of entrepreneurship and innovation in their own professional working environment
- An understanding of how these may be applied to their organisation
- The particular barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation in their own organisation
- An appreciation of how their working environment might be adapted to facilitate an entrepreneurial management orientation with increased innovation outcomes for organisational economic renewal
The individual assignment consists of a management report wherein students are asked to:
- Working within your own organisation, critically analyse and evaluate the organisation's ability to innovate and behave entrepreneurially, using the assumption that entrepreneurial management delivers innovation. Identify a potential innovation for your organisation and outline a plan "to make it happen"
If the organisation is a very large one, select a discrete / independent area within your work organisation on which to carry out the analysis. The influence of the rest of the organisation on the area you are considering should be included.
These are the necessary elements to the task:-
- Define your terms carefully at the outset
- From your learning within the module and from reading, identify the management and employee behaviours that support / create a barrier to successful achievement of information
a) Consider these factors in an innovation audit on your organisation Identifying recent innovation across the categories product, service, process at a basic level, then organisational or strategic innovation at a higher level. The innovation categories maybe further considered as incremental, radical or transformational
b) the organisational behaviours that either impede or facilitate entrepreneurial management with innovation outcomes, either by management or other employees
c) Identify the specific critical factors/barriers for successful innovation in your organisation
d) Propose a potential innovation at any level , outlining how they would make the innovation happen, taking into account the factors indentified above that would need to change?
Word limit 3,000
These is a guide for the assignment to help you to cover all the area and to write about
Executive summary
1 Introduction
1.1 Aim of the report
1.2 Background of your organisation
1.3 Defection of terms Innovation ,Entrepreneurship Creating value
1.4 Why its Importance of innovation and, Entrepreneurship at your organisation find the best way to describe them and what is relevant
2 Analysis of innovation and, Entrepreneurship at your organisation (is social sectary or financial. Other.....)
2.1 innovation Audit ( Sector type of organisation) + diagram
2.2 factors supporting and hindering ,Entrepreneurship management and innovation at your organization (strategy), + diagram
3. Implementiing a potential innovation at your organisation + diagram
3.1 Entrepreneurial goals and innovation context (Structure leader and
Involvement) evolution and what are the key thing points for the structure leadership and involvement and key individuals
(Recur and trying and development)
(Resources and networking)
3.2 Recognising the opportunting.
3.3 finding resources
3.4 developing the venture
3.5 creating value
Conclusion
Appendix
Reference