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The purpose of this course is to gain specialised knowledge and skills related to strategic ambidexterity. The course facilitates a process by which students can distinguish between internal adaptive change and external innovation. Specifically, students will acquire adaptive skills related to different forms of innovation knowledge and how to research and apply innovative solutions to typical business and innovation problems. For instance, the knowledge learned will enable students to constructively align organisational internal knowledge related to assimilation and exploitation with external exploration such as acquisition and transformation within national and global contexts. Moreover, students will gain an appreciation of how strategic ambidexterity relates to digital technological adoption in different kinds of contexts. Students will learn how to practice the various ambidextrous skills required of modern strategic leaders and be able to communicate ambidextrous change to a range of stakeholders.

In this introductory course, we define and explain how ambidextrous strategy supports organisations to survive in fast-paced competitive environments. We explore the different types of adaptive challenges organisations face and how to respond to them. Next, we investigate why strategic ambidexterity is important within the context of adaptive capacity such as the ability of an organisation to acquire knowledge and share it. Time to practice researching and responding to different ambidextrous states by developing skills related to internal and external innovation will take place. For instance, you will be able to develop an absorptive capacity checklist and measure this against an organisation's ambidextrous current state to determine the gaps. You will be able to interpret an organisation's ability to learn such as matching different kinds of digital technologies to ambidextrous outcomes. The course requires you to record your findings by diarising learning events, apply business research and problem solving skills to scenario-based tasks, and to communicate your thoughts and feelings by reflecting on ambidextrous events.

On completion of this course students should be able to:

1. classify and interpret theoretical ideas related to innovation and knowledge and why these are relevant to a range of business disciplines;
2. distinguish between exploitation and exploration in the competitive context by comparing them to practical change;
3. analyse and apply digital technologies and organisational learning as relevant to ambidextrous organisations;
4. research an organisational problem and draw from ambidextrous knowledge and relevant theories to provide potential solutions;
5. collaborate to communicate ambidextrous change principles to both virtual and face-to-face audiences and stakeholders.