Gain the foundational knowledge of corporate strategic planning for enterprises and organisations that have a significant engineering and technology base.

Throughout this course, you will develop strategies enabling your engineering organisation to compete in the national and global marketplace. You will investigate market mechanisms within national and international economies in which modern industrial enterprises operate, and the impacts that they have on individual firms competing in national and global markets.

You will also examine the effective integration of economic and corporate aspects of strategic planning, policy influence and study cases?which are especially relevant to engineering and technology-based enterprises and organisations.

 

Course coordinator

Dr Allan McLay, Professional Fellow - School of Engineering

Course objectives

  • Describe, investigate and analyse complex engineering systems and associated issues (using systems thinking and modelling techniques);
  • Exposit legal, social, economic, ethical and environmental interests, values, requirements and expectations of key stakeholders;
  • Develop creative and innovative solutions to engineering problems;
  • Demonstrate effective team membership and team leadership; and
  • Be aware of knowledge development and research directions within the engineering discipline.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

  • Analyse a technology-based organisation or enterprise company in terms of its internal and external economic environment and associated processes;
  • Analyse factors that influence national and international economic policy and development and assess their impact on an individual firm;
  • Develop strategies that relate various marketplace mechanisms and economic systems to the successful operations of industrial organisations, which are appropriate for the organisation and the markets and economies in which they operate; and
  • Prepare sound arguments to improve national and international policies of research and development in the strategic interest of an engineering and technology-based enterprise or organisation.

Assessment

Assessment for this course will occur at various times across the seven-week teaching period. In most cases, assessment should follow a similar structure to the below:

  • A short assessment may occur in the first couple of weeks, driven mostly by peer-assessment or objective feedback as is the case of a survey quiz or contribution to discussion.
  • Assessments that occur mid-study period (approximately week 2 to 5) will have a highly formative purpose, like an extended case study or a scenario role play. These are intended to provide an indication of performance and occur at this time to enable positive changes to future performance.
  • Final assessments are usually summative, and generally draw the course?s threshold concepts together. Your previous assessments will have directly prepared you for a summative-style assessment.

Rich, online feedback will be provided to you throughout the teaching period on practical exercises and by individual consultation, ideally within five business days.


Please note, unit structure and content are subject to change. Contact your RMIT Student Enrolment Advisor on 1300 701 171 for more information based on your particular circumstances.