Overview

This unit focusses on the front-end of project management by explicating the tasks and decisions that are necessary for the delivery of innovative outcomes. The unit provides students with an understanding of how project management can mitigate uncertainties associated with the development of innovative opportunities. The appropriateness of various project management frameworks is thoroughly discussed and applied to multiple innovation contexts. This unit also examines how different project management approaches can be combined to navigate the innovation landscape.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Teaching Period 1
Location
Online
Start and end dates
10-March-2025
08-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
23-March-2025
Census date
04-April-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
02-May-2025
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025
Teaching Period 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
03-November-2025
08-February-2026
Last self-enrolment date
16-November-2025
Census date
28-November-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
02-January-2026
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Apply critical and advanced knowledge of project management to the innovation context
  • Critically evaluate the role of interdisciplinary teams and key stakeholders in supporting projects and operations within an enterprise
  • Critically analyse business development and capacity management in response to environmental changes
  • Communicate proficiently project management plans that meet the needs of innovation contexts
  • Apply advanced and coherent knowledge to an applied research project using project management practice within an innovation context

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
Online
Lecture		1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Assignment 1Individual 30 - 40% 1,3,4 
Assignment 2Individual 30 - 50% 1,3 
Assignment 3Group 20 - 30% 1,2,3,4,5 

Content

  • Understanding the terms: exploration and exploitation for new idea development, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and management. What are their characteristics and traits?
  • Innovation landscape, entrepreneurial life cycle and the role project management plays
  • Determinants of a viable innovative and entrepreneurial project
  • Conditions which stimulate the emergence of innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Understanding the strategic orientation of an enterprising business
  • The benefit(s) of feasibility studies
  • Negotiation within the innovative firm and project management
  • How to understand and analyse risks for the routine and innovative projects
  • Managing and dealing with limited resources
  • Funding sources for innovative ideas

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.