Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Change Management

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	639-3013/01
Abbreviation	CM
Course title	Change Management
Credits	6
Coordinating department	Department of Quality Management
Course coordinator	Ing. Mgr. Petra Halfarová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Change management. Perception and the need for innovation. Basic concepts and context. The requirements of the business environment
2. Creating the Precondition for Innovation
3. Creativity - the nature, stage of the creative process, the elements of creative activity. Creative work in organizations.
4. Innovative Practice. Seven Sources for Innovative Opportunities. Finding the Context in Innovations.
5. System approach, cost-value analysis. The operating principle, the principle of defining the functions, rules for a functional description, and evaluation functions.
6. Introduction to the Challenge of Cost and Value Management
7. Concept of Value. Dimensions and Measures of Value. Value Management Terms. Overview of Value Management
8. Benefits of Value Management, Value Management Reviews
9. Change Control and Configuration Management
10. TRIZ - Tools for Creativity and Clever Solutions
11. WOIS - Contradiction oriented innovation strategy
12. Kotter's 8-Step Change Model

E-learning

stránky FMMI
http://www.person.vsb.cz/archivcd/FMMI/CM/index.htm

Literature

[1] GADD, Karen. TRIZ for engineers: enabling inventive problem solving. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2011, xviii, 486 p. ISBN 978-047-0741-887.
[2] RANTANEN, Kalevi a Ellen DOMB. Simplified TRIZ: new problem solving applications for engineers and manufacturing professionals. 2nd ed. New York: Auerbach Publications, c2008, xxi, 249 p. ISBN 14-200-6273-5.
[3] PARK, Richard J. Value engineering: a plan for invention. Boca Raton, Fla: St. Lucie Press, c1999, xi, 340 p.

Advised literature

[1] REVELLE, Jack B. Manufacturing handbook of best practices: an innovation, productivity, and quality focus. Boca Raton: St. Lucie Press, c2002, 435 p. .
[2] TIDD, Joseph a J BESSANT. Managing innovation: integrating technological, market, and organizational change. 4th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, c2009, p. cm. ISBN 978-047-0998-106
[3] TROTT, Paul a J BESSANT. Innovation management and new product development: integrating technological, market, and organizational change. 5th ed. New York: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, c2012, xxviii, 620 p. ISBN 978-027-3736-561
[4] DAVILA, Tony, Marc J EPSTEIN a Robert SHELTON. Making innovation work: how to manage it, measure it, and profit from it. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River: Wharton School Publishing, c2006, xxvi, 334 s.

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