Workshop (5op)

Osaamistavoitteet

The aim of this course is to enhance students’ capacity to recognise, assess, articulate and reshape new business opportunities, access the resources required to create a new venture from a business opportunity, and to ensure that students have read extensively around the subject. The class should be of value to students who will create new ventures either for themselves or for their employers.

By the end of the class, students should have a high degree of competency and confidence in their own ability to assess potential market opportunities in a structured way, understand some of the key drivers that influence successful new venture management, know how to acquire the resources required to start up a new venture, generate new business ideas, critically assess new business ideas, assess the resources required to pursue an opportunity, develop a business plan that can guide the start-up process and access resources to create a new entrepreneurial organisation.

During the course the students’ key skills in selling , team-building, networking, written and oral presentation skills as well as analytical skills under conditions of uncertainty will be developed.

Sisältö

This is the final course of the second year and the whole master’s degree programme. The students work individually or, if they intend to write group theses, in their thesis teams. It is assumed that students will apply the Supercoach® tools and techniques to their development project based on reshaped concepts. The course includes home assignments and an intensive one-week workshop based on Supercoach® experiences. The emphasis in the course is on the provision of evidence for assertions, on giving critical but positive feedback, on reshaping of business concepts, and on professional presentation. During the course a group feedback approach will guide students to create robust new business models in an iterative process. Each student or thesis team will create a coherent and viable business concept and present this to an external panel in the final hours of the workshop.

Esitietovaatimukset

Building teams and leading new ventures, strategic planning, marketing and sales, financing in a global environment.

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1)

Assessment is based on knowledge, skills and competence in accordance with the National and European Qualifications Framework, Level 7. The assessment criteria for individual courses are given in an annex to the implementation plan of the course.