Assignment format and other relevant instructions to students:
For this second assignment, you are required to produce a 3000 word written report. From your findings in CW1 you are to develop an innovation road map that outlines the preparation of the innovation process. This audit will factor in the wider, operational environment of both up anddownstream suppliers and service providers, whilst developing a fuller picture of the organisation’s full innovation capacity.
This assignment tests the following Learning Outcomes for the module:
Apply an evaluative approach to a range of business data, sources of information and appropriate methodologies in identifying drivers of innovation within a business and its environments;
Analyse and illustrate how organisations and their leaders can successfully plan and prepare for innovation;
Critically discuss the importance of organisational knowledge, knowledge transfer and cross functional co-operation in order to analyse and assess innovation capability andblockages;
Actively engage in the identification of a new product/service for a chosen organisation and identify the key activities required for its successful development;
Conduct an innovation/organisational development audit appropriate for the introduction of the new product/service.
The Assignment Task:
This assignment leads on logically from the findings of CW1 and students are expected to use the same organisation as CW1
From your findings in CW1 you are to develop an innovation road map that outlines the preparation of the innovation process. This will factor in the wider, operational environment of both up anddownstream suppliers and service providers, whilst developing a fuller picture of the organisation’s full innovation capacity.
Words used in applied models, tables; charts etc… within the main body of the report are NOT included in the report word count. Content placed in the appendices MUST have a clear connection to the main body. Any work copied and paste into the report and/orthe appendices that is not discussed, analysed or mentioned will not be considered by the marker.