MGN585 Entrepreneurial Leadership
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| Unit code: | MGN585 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | 24 credit points of completed study |
| Equivalent(s): | MGN432 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,416 |
| International unit fee | $4,944 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | MGN585 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 24 credit points of completed study |
| Equivalent: | MGN432 |
| Coordinator: | Jack Adams | j29.adams@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Entrepreneurial leadership has become a standard skill of successful managers. Entrepreneurship is the identification and evaluation of new opportunities, which lead to the creation of new ventures as well as the growth of existing businesses. This unit is designed to equip students with state-of-the-art techniques developed by leading universities, innovators, and entrepreneurs. This allows them to pursue high-impact entrepreneurship focusing on social value and sustainable development.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply critical thinking and a range of discipline knowledge and tools to identify, evaluate and refine real-world business opportunities for societal impact and sustainable development, both independently as an entrepreneur and within an existing company as an intrapreneur.
- Collaborate with peers to design feasible, viable and scalable new ventures addressing sustainable development opportunities, while managing the market challenges presented.
- Use effective communication skills to explain real world business opportunities. and persuade key stakeholders and prospective investors to support proposed new ventures.
Content
- Lean start-up principles
- Ambidextrous thinking
- Scalable opportunity identification and feasibility evaluation
- Entrepreneurial leadership
- Sustainable development goals
- Social entrepreneurship
- Customer and market analysis
- Value proposition design and societal impact
- Approaches to collect customer feedback
- Entrepreneurial ecosystem analysis
- Business model and plan development
- Effective communication (pitching for funding or developing partnerships)
- Ethics and legalities of new ventures
- Minimum-viable-product
- Fund raising and bootstrapping
- Entrepreneurial resilience
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
The content and assessment in this unit are aligned to a selection of the following set of QUT Business Capabilities, also known as Assurance of Learning Goals (AoLs). Developing these capabilities will assist you to meet the desired graduate outcomes set at QUT and equip you with the knowledge and skills to succeed in your chosen career.
Knowledge & Technical Skills (KS)
1.1 Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
1.2 Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HO)
2.1 Critically investigate real world business issues and problems drawing on analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, including theory and practice.
2.2 Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Professional Communication (PC)
3.1 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in written forms and using media appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
3.2 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Teamwork & Self (TS)
4.1 Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
4.2 Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Social, Ethical & Global Understanding (SE)
5.1 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of ethical and legal principles and practices of business in critically analysing and effectively responding to complex business issues.
5.2 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Learning Approaches
This unit takes an authentic approach to learning by designing new ventures around real-world business opportunities. Students will identify and evaluate business opportunities individually to then form teams and design new ventures around the most promising business opportunities. The lecturer will facilitate the applied and active learning experience in this unit through workshops, exercises, and authentic assessment.
This unit takes a blended approach to teaching and learning, with a rich online experience allowing for self-directed learning. The workshops focus on applying the learnings in exercises and real-life cases. The assessments focus on an authentic, real-world experience that will help students to successfully develop entrepreneurial ventures both as entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.
COVID-19 restrictions may require changes to the planned Learning Approaches described here. Students should refer to the unit Canvas site for the latest information.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester which may include:
- Informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- Formal: in writing, such as checklists (e.g. criteria sheets), written commentary
- Direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- Indirect: to the whole class
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit aims to support your achievement of the learning objectives for both Discipline Knowledge and Other Graduate Capabilities. Assessment has been designed in order to allow you to:
- Receive feedback on your learning as you progress toward the development of knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes (formative assessment); and,
- Demonstrate your learning in order to achieve a final grade (summative assessment).
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Validation Report
You will apply the tools and techniques for scalable opportunity identification and evaluation provided in this unit to identify and evaluate a real-world business opportunity for societal impact and sustainable development. You are required to write up and submit your findings in a report along with an explanation of the business opportunity, its viability and impact.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): HO (2.1), PC (3.1), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Project Presentation
As a team of three to five people, you will design a new venture to address a high-impact business opportunity identified in the first assessment. You are required to apply the tools and techniques provided in this unit to develop a pitch deck that you will use to persuade key stakeholders of your proposed new venture's viability. Specifically, you will evaluate the business opportunity, design a value proposition, gather customer feedback, develop a business model, and pitch the resulting venture design to a panel of investors, sponsors and entrepreneurs. The total mark incorporates assessment of the pitch deck and its presentation.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): HO (2.2), PC (3.2), TS (4.2), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Project Report
As a team, you are required to synthesize the learning of this unit to develop an actionable plan for transitioning your proposed venture design into a real-world business or the growth of an existing businesses. This new venture should consider societal impact and sustainable development. The plan needs to identify and analyse the minimum-viable-product, potential challenges of the transition, and what you as a team would need to do to make this transition successful. You are required to write up and submit this plan as a report. The plan needs to be supported by a description of the proposed venture design in the Appendix, which should detail the business opportunity and explain the proposed value proposition, describe how the business opportunity and value proposition have been validated, and outline the underlying business model. In addition, the team’s self-reflection on the ethical and social aspects of the new venture should be provided.
Formative or Summative: Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): HO (2.1, 2.2), PC (3.1), TS (4.2), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There is no prescribed text for this unit. All required resources will be available via Canvas.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with this unit. You should, however, familiarise yourself with evacuation procedures operating in the buildings in which you attend classes and take the time to view the Emergency video.
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Online
| Unit code: | MGN585 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 24 credit points of completed study |
| Equivalent: | MGN432 |
Overview
Entrepreneurial leadership has become a standard skill of successful managers. Entrepreneurship is the identification and evaluation of new opportunities, which lead to the creation of new ventures as well as the growth of existing businesses. This unit is designed to equip students with state-of-the-art techniques developed by leading universities, innovators, and entrepreneurs. This allows them to pursue high-impact entrepreneurship focusing on social value and sustainable development.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply critical thinking and a range of discipline knowledge and tools to identify, evaluate and refine real-world business opportunities for societal impact and sustainable development, both independently as an entrepreneur and within an existing company as an intrapreneur.
- Collaborate with peers to design feasible, viable and scalable new ventures addressing sustainable development opportunities, while managing the market challenges presented.
- Use effective communication skills to explain real world business opportunities. and persuade key stakeholders and prospective investors to support proposed new ventures.
Content
- Lean start-up principles
- Ambidextrous thinking
- Scalable opportunity identification and feasibility evaluation
- Entrepreneurial leadership
- Sustainable development goals
- Social entrepreneurship
- Customer and market analysis
- Value proposition design and societal impact
- Approaches to collect customer feedback
- Entrepreneurial ecosystem analysis
- Business model and plan development
- Effective communication (pitching for funding or developing partnerships)
- Ethics and legalities of new ventures
- Minimum-viable-product
- Fund raising and bootstrapping
- Entrepreneurial resilience
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
The content and assessment in this unit are aligned to a selection of the following set of QUT Business Capabilities, also known as Assurance of Learning Goals (AoLs). Developing these capabilities will assist you to meet the desired graduate outcomes set at QUT and equip you with the knowledge and skills to succeed in your chosen career.
Knowledge & Technical Skills (KS)
1.1 Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
1.2 Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HO)
2.1 Critically investigate real world business issues and problems drawing on analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, including theory and practice.
2.2 Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Professional Communication (PC)
3.1 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in written forms and using media appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
3.2 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Teamwork & Self (TS)
4.1 Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
4.2 Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Social, Ethical & Global Understanding (SE)
5.1 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of ethical and legal principles and practices of business in critically analysing and effectively responding to complex business issues.
5.2 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Learning Approaches
This unit takes an authentic approach to learning by designing new ventures around real-world business opportunities. Students will identify and evaluate business opportunities individually to then form teams and design new ventures around the most promising business opportunities. The lecturer will facilitate the applied and active learning experience in this unit through workshops, exercises, and authentic assessment.
This unit takes a blended approach to teaching and learning, with a rich online experience allowing for self-directed learning. The workshops focus on applying the learnings in exercises and real-life cases. The assessments focus on an authentic, real-world experience that will help students to successfully develop entrepreneurial ventures both as entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.
COVID-19 restrictions may require changes to the planned Learning Approaches described here. Students should refer to the unit Canvas site for the latest information.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester which may include:
- Informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- Formal: in writing, such as checklists (e.g. criteria sheets), written commentary
- Direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- Indirect: to the whole class
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit aims to support your achievement of the learning objectives for both Discipline Knowledge and Other Graduate Capabilities. Assessment has been designed in order to allow you to:
- Receive feedback on your learning as you progress toward the development of knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes (formative assessment); and,
- Demonstrate your learning in order to achieve a final grade (summative assessment).
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Validation Report
You will apply the tools and techniques for scalable opportunity identification and evaluation provided in this unit to identify and evaluate a real-world business opportunity for societal impact and sustainable development. You are required to write up and submit your findings in a report along with an explanation of the business opportunity, its viability and impact.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): HO (2.1), PC (3.1), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Project Presentation
As a team of three to five people, you will design a new venture to address a high-impact business opportunity identified in the first assessment. You are required to apply the tools and techniques provided in this unit to develop a pitch deck that you will use to persuade key stakeholders of your proposed new venture's viability. Specifically, you will evaluate the business opportunity, design a value proposition, gather customer feedback, develop a business model, and pitch the resulting venture design to a panel of investors, sponsors and entrepreneurs. The total mark incorporates assessment of the pitch deck and its presentation.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): HO (2.2), PC (3.2), TS (4.2), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Project Report
As a team, you are required to synthesize the learning of this unit to develop an actionable plan for transitioning your proposed venture design into a real-world business or the growth of an existing businesses. This new venture should consider societal impact and sustainable development. The plan needs to identify and analyse the minimum-viable-product, potential challenges of the transition, and what you as a team would need to do to make this transition successful. You are required to write up and submit this plan as a report. The plan needs to be supported by a description of the proposed venture design in the Appendix, which should detail the business opportunity and explain the proposed value proposition, describe how the business opportunity and value proposition have been validated, and outline the underlying business model. In addition, the team’s self-reflection on the ethical and social aspects of the new venture should be provided.
Formative or Summative: Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): HO (2.1, 2.2), PC (3.1), TS (4.2), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There is no prescribed text for this unit. All required resources will be available via Canvas.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with this unit. You should, however, familiarise yourself with evacuation procedures operating in the buildings in which you attend classes and take the time to view the Emergency video.