Course-PM

TEK745 Management of innovation and R&D (7.5 hp). The course is offered by the department of Technology Management and Economics.

Please find the latest course PM here!

Course purpose

This course aims at developing an understanding of the prerequisites for R&D and innovation work in large established organizations.

More specifically the course will address key elements within the areas of:

• Organizational theory
• Project management
• Product development
• Innovation management

Having completed the course the student should hopefully be able to (the learning outcomes):

• Describe fundamental mechanisms related to organizations’ existence, design and scope
• Explain the basic project management terms and tools
• Describe different types of product development processes
• Apply different methods and tools for efficient product development work
• Describe the prerequisites for innovation work and their implications on the strategic and operative levels

Schedule

Please find the schedule here: TimeEdit

All sessions will be via Zoom (unless stated otherwise). The Zoom sessions can be accessed by clicking the Zoom tab on the navigation panel (on the left side)

IF you have trouble using the Zoom tab, please use the links provided below:

Date	Course activity	Videos and other materials	Zoom live session
01-09-2020	Course introduction
03-09-2020	Session 11	Available
08-09-2020	Session 12	Available
10-09-2020	Session 13	Available
15-09-2020	Session 21	Available
22-09-2020	Session 22	Available
24-09-2020	Session 23	Available
25-09-2020	‘Textbook project management’ exam
29-09-2020	Session 24	Available
01-10-2020	Session 31	None (Read articles provided in the course PM)
02-10-2020	Session 32	None (Refer to course PM and the module section for reading instructions)
06-10-2020	Session 33	None (Refer to course PM and the module section for reading instructions)
08-10-2020	Session 41	None (Refer to course PM and the module section for reading instructions)
13-10-2020	Session 42	None (Refer to the module section for reading instructions)
15-10-2020	Session 43	None  (Refer to the module section)
20-10-2020	Final lecture	None	https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/69632082198

Contact details

Name	Role	Email
Sofia Börjesson	Lecturer	sofia.borjesson@chalmers.se
Alvar Palm	Lecturer	alvar.palm@chalmers.se
Magnus Persson	Examiner, Lecturer	magper@chalmers.se
Goutha Pushpananthan	Teaching assistant, Lecturer	goupus@chalmers.se
Jan Wickenberg	Lecturer	jan.wickenberg@chalmers.se

Course literature 

The literature for this course consists of articles and other materials .

(Note: Please read the latest course PM for detailed information on lectures, reading instructions, etc.)

Course design

The course will start with an introduction in week 1. For schedule, see TimeEdit and Canvas. Please note that this course will be run online, which means that all of the sessions in the course will be run on Zoom. Links to the Zoom-sessions will be found in Canvas!

The table below serves as site map and guides to relevant sections of the course page.

Module name	Preparing for lectures	Assignments/tasks
Module 1	See here	See here
Module 2	See here	See here
Module 3	See here	-
Module 4	See here	-

 

Changes made since the last occasion

Change	Purpose	Dated
'Course literature' section	Additional information on articles (book chapters) to read	18-08-2020
Course PM	New update	25-08-2020
Course PM	New update	28-08-2020
Zoom Schedule	Schedule change for Module 2	02-09-2020

Learning objectives and syllabus

Learning objectives:

• Describe fundamental mechanisms related to organizations’ existence, design and scope
• Explain the basic project management terms and tools
• Describe different types of product development processes
• Apply different methods and tools for efficient product development work
• Describe the prerequisites for innovation work and their implications on the strategic and operative levels

Link to the syllabus on Studieportalen:  Study plan

Examination 

The examination is based on two different parts. There will be two individual partial exams, one for the ‘Organizational theory’ part of the course, and one for the ‘Textbook project management’ part of the course. In the end of the course there will also be a home exam covering the whole course; all four modules. For the two individual exams the grading will be Passed or Not passed, for the home exam the grading will be Fail, 3, 4 and 5.

Having passed both individual partial exams and having 50% of the maximum number of points on the home exam a grade of “3” will be awarded. A result of 65% of the maximum number of points will result in the grade “4”. The highest grade “5” will be awarded for 85% and over.

‘Organizational theory’ exam

There will be an online test with a hand-in deadline on the 14^th of September 17.00.

‘Textbook project management’ exam

This individual partial exam will be done by means of an online test. This test will take place the 25^th of September at 13.15. There will be a re-exam possibility the 16^th of October at 13.15.

Home exam

The aim of the home exam is to create a state of reflective learning and not to test by rote. Knowledge from the whole course should be integrated, by working with the questions and themes of the course. Theory and practical knowledge should be integrated and various theories reflected against each other. Proven understanding of concepts and ability to build syntheses are encouraged as well as a structured reasoning.

The home exam will be published the 20^th of October, and deadline for hand-in will be the 30^th of October at 13.00.