Assessment: Innovation and technology management report
Project 1 : Melbourne metro tunnel
Assessment description:
Based on the project concept, you will submit a report on your work integrating and applying key operational aspects of managing innovation and technology to a collaborative engineering project
Assessment detail:
Based on either project 1 you will prepare a detailed report for managing innovation and technology to deliver a specific and defendable operational outcome.
You will:
- Briefly research and outline a specific technology and/or an innovation that would benefit the project
- Describe the succinct business caseand risks underpinning why the project managers should consider proceeding with your approach
- Outline a detailed strategy based on sound theoretical reasoning for sourcing / developing the technology or innovation and its integration / commercialization. You will also consider the longer term management post integration relevant to the project
- Consider implications of intellectual property and its management if applicable
- Consider organisational culture and key stakeholders (internal and external), supply chains if/as relevant and marketing / communications
Your report will include a:
- Clear description of the objective
- Technical summary of the technology / innovation you have researched for the project
- Defendable business case for the technology / innovation you have down selected
- Detailed strategy / process to source through to reliably integrate the technology or innovation including consideration of project specific constraints, standards and codes, on-going management as relevant.
- Intellectual property assessment and strategy if applicable
- A process for engaging and convincing internal and external stakeholders
- Discussion over organisational culture relevant to the technology / innovation proposed
- Detailed references to support your approach (at least 15)
- Word Count Number
You may wish to consider the Heilmeier Questions covered in Lectures to assist your thinking
The report will be at least 2000 words in length (excluding images, tables, graphs and captions thereof) with a maximum of 3000 words.