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This module provides a high-impact, horizon-stretching and thought provoking close to the course. It will challenge you to identify your own unique approach to competitive managing project, to critically evaluate it and adopt in practice: that is become a strategist in a world that faces Grand Challenges.

During the last modules you have engaged and developed a number of ideas that have been based on the latest, cutting-edge research in each one of the topics you have reviewed in your modules. Soon, after you work on and submit your dissertation, you will be on your way to changing the world in your careers and more broadly in your life. The knowledge you have worked on in SMP will be your friend and companion in your efforts. But to materialise, you will need to apply this knowledge in practice, in action! This translation - from the classroom to practice - is not always a straightforward process, and the latest research suggests that ideas are frequently resisted and/or marginalised in the workplace. In Tomorrow's Company we focus on this challenge, i.e. on how you can make sure that you are able to apply your philosophy and SMP knowledge to practice and make the most of your investment of time and effort in practice.

Aims:

• To help you design your own unique competitive approach to managing projects
• To prepare you to be able to adopt your strategic approach to managing projects in your future career and in life more generally
• To help you identify the political implications of new, disruptive ideas
• Deliberately stretch your critical thinking abilities to be able to reflect and evaluate on your own approach as a leader of projects in the future and in ways that are proportionate to the challenges that you will face.

Issues that the module will tackle:

• The role of values and ethical principles in designing your own unique competitive approach to managing projects.
• A philosophical understanding of work and our relationship to our work
• The role of discourses in adopting ideas in practice
• The role of political work in negotiating new ideas in practice

Learning outcomes:

• Recognise your role in designing and taking responsibility for your own unique competitive approach to strategically managing projects.
• Understand and critically evaluate current perceptions about the nature of project work and explore new ways of conceptualising your relationship to your work
• Critically evaluate the strategic role of political work in helping to introduce and adopt new ideas in practice.