You can complete one short course as a standalone credential or stack multiple to build towards a full postgraduate degree at Deakin. Want to know more?
Course overview
This short course gives you the knowledge and tools to explore strategic innovation models and to diagnose the need for organisational change. You’ll learn how to develop a strategic change program by using different tools, including Ansoff, Balanced scorecard and the Balogun and Hope-Hailey model for strategic change. You’ll also write a business plan.
After completion of the short course, you will be able to apply these skills immediately in your workplace.
- Apply strategic innovation models to assess the need for change. Evaluate frameworks for strategic innovation.
- Plan a change management program using tools such as Ansoff and balanced scorecard to obtain stakeholder funding and support.
- Create a business plan as a strategic change management and communication tool to validate and ensure organisational fit.
Entry requirements
To be successful we recommend you are proficient in English and have a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a related field or significant work experience.
Industry organisations and experts
This industry-led stackable short course is co-designed with the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University; Cathryn Nolan, Senior Knowledge Lawyer at Hall & Willcox; and Mark Cameron, CEO of Alyve. Together, we’ve designed a course where you’ll gain skills that you can apply immediately in your workplace.
Cathryn Nolan provides legal consultancy at a leading Australian law firm and offers independent services to a select client base, specialising in 'virtual' in-house counsel services to start-ups and emerging enterprises. Cathryn is respected for developing and delivering unique, elegant and workable solutions in legal, education, governance and commercial situations.
Mark Cameron, CEO of Alyve, has been in the digital strategy and transformation space since the late-90s and has worked with companies such as SAP North America, GSK, Australia Post and Telstra. Mark has worked on a vast array of digital and customer-focused projects, including political elections, global brand strategy, innovation strategy, transformation initiatives and digital product development.
Alyve is a consultancy that specialises in enabling and leading digital transformation initiatives.
Earn a digital credential
We’ve teamed up with Credly to award you a digital credential when you complete this industry-recognised stackable short course, plus you can bank the credit towards a Deakin postgraduate degree. You can also share your digital credential on social and professional platforms.
Course structure
How you'll learn
Go at your own pace with support from your educator and fellow learners during online learning activities and discussions. Complete your course within 6 weeks, including the assessment, or take extra time and use the regular assessment submission windows to complete within 24 weeks of your enrolment. During this time, you can book online consultation sessions with your educators to support your learning.
What you’ll learn
During the short course you’ll:
- learn how to create, plan, validate, socialise and present a business case that attracts investor, sponsor or organisational funding
- explore strategically focused innovation that meets desirability, feasibility and viability criteria within a given professional or industry context.
How you’re assessed
Your assessment task for this course requires you to formulate a plan for a strategic change program (2500 words). It is designed to develop your capability to select from alternative models and to apply these to a specific change program, innovation or strategic initiative.
Reshaping university education
An innovative learning structure delivered by a leading university. With more than 40 years’ experience in distance and online education, we’re proud to be adding this unique study format to our courses, providing you with more choice to further your career and fulfil your lifelong learning needs.
Ready to enrol?
It takes five minutes to register your details and sign up for a stackable short course. We have discounts available for Deakin alumni, staff and group bookings. Enrol today and get the skills you need to take your career further, faster.
Did you know you can apply credit to a postgraduate degree?
Unsure what degree you want to study? Study two short courses that interest you and apply both as credit towards a wide range of postgraduate degrees at Deakin – from business administration to nursing, sustainability to communication and more.*
*Subject to successful completion of the short course and meeting Deakin’s award course admission and selection requirements, including English language proficiency requirements.
Limits on elective space in a destination degree are outlined in specific degrees’ course rules within the Deakin University Handbook. Typically, a maximum of four stackable short courses can be used as credit (2 credit points) towards a masters; and two stackable short courses can be used as credit (1 credit point) towards graduate certificates and diplomas.
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