Topics include techniques to enhance intuitive creative thinking within the business environment. The emphasis is on the development and implementation of innovative approaches to management and eliciting creative traits from the student to assist in the improvement of business venture planning and development. This course covers contemporary issues, concepts, and techniques related to the location, analysis, and monitoring of sources of goods, materials, and services. This course requires the student to prepare a definitive, comprehensive business plan involving all aspects of a proposed new venture. To attract seed money and growth capital, the student plan must address probable start-up issues involving market analysis, competition, workforce, and capacity planning.
Emphasis is on financial viability and business plan packaging to secure financial seed money.
This course examines the behavior of individuals and small groups in organizational settings. The emphasis is on how organizations influence behavior in their quest for operating efficiency and effectiveness. This course investigates the concepts and applicability of matrix organizations and project management. The unique nature of the project management structure is also examined, including its emphasis on integrative decision making throughout a product's life cycle. Cases and illustrations are used to demonstrate collective bargaining and methods of securing industrial peace.