Change Management

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	639-3019/01
Abbreviation	CM
Course title	Change Management
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Quality Management
Course coordinator	Ing. Zdenka Hofbruckerová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Change management. Perception and the need for innovation. Basic concepts and contexts.
2. Prerequisites for creating innovations. Innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovative organizations. Requirements of the business environment.
3. Innovation codes. Rothwell's five generations of innovative models.
4. Innovation cycle. Sources of innovation opportunities.
5. Identification and definition of the problem. Troubleshooting procedures. Choice of solution technique. Problem solving techniques.
6. Creativity - stage of the creative process, elements of creative activity. Creative work in organizations.
7. Eight steps of the change process by J. Kotter.
8. System approach, functional cost principle. Function definition principles, rules for functional description, functional characteristics and evaluation.
9. Value management - history and context. Successful applications of value management. Phase of the process of improvement by the methodology of value analysis and value engineering. Activities, basic logical flow of questions and results of individual phases.
10. Functional - cost analysis of technical systems. Improved by simplifying the structure. Improving the structure.
11. Creation and solution of innovative assignments - the TRIZ method. General approach to tackling innovative challenges. Altschule chart.

E-learning

http://katedry.fmmi.vsb.cz/Opory_FMMI_ENG/QM/Change%20Management.pdf

Literature

HALFAROVÁ, P. Change Management: Study Supports. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2015. http://katedry.fmmi.vsb.cz/Opory_FMMI_ENG/QM/Change%20Management.pdf.
KOTTER, J. P. KOTTER, J. P. a H. RATHGEBER. Our Iceberg is Melting. Pan Books, 2016. ISBN 1509830111 9781509830114.
JOHNSON, S. Who moved my cheese?: An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life. London: Vermilion, 2007. ISBN 0091816971 9780091816971.
KOTTER, J. P. a D. S. COHEN. The heart of change: real-life stories of how people change their organizations. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012. .
GUPTA, P. a B. E. TRUSKO, ed. Global innovation science handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, c2014. ISBN 978-0-07-179270-7.

Advised literature

REVELLE, J. B. Manufacturing handbook of best practices: an innovation, productivity, and quality focus. Boca Raton: St. Lucie Press, c2002. .
TIDD, J. a J. BESSANT. Managing innovation: integrating technological, market, and organizational change. 4th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, c2009. ISBN 978-047-0998-106.
TROTT, P. a J. BESSANT. Innovation management and new product development: integrating technological, market, and organizational change. 5th ed. New York: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, c2012. ISBN 978-027-3736-561.
DAVILA, T., M. J. EPSTEIN a R. SHELTON. Making innovation work: how to manage it, measure it, and profit from it. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River: Wharton School Publishing, c2006. .

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