MBA7604 Special Topics: Entrepreneurship in a Digital World

3 CreditsDigital technologies, processes and business models are impacting all aspects of businesses today, from startups to large organizations that need to practice corporate intrapreneurship. This course will focus on how digital strategies, tactics, and tools can be leveraged by today's entrepreneurial leaders to innovate, grow, and renew initiatives in their organizations. We will study how digital platforms can be used to scale operations, improve decision-making, and enable new business models to grow customers and revenue. Topics will include cloud computing platforms that focus on operations, employee collaboration, customer relationships, and machine-to-machine connections such as the Internet of Things (IoT) to capture, analyze, and share data and insights. New digital business models will be explored that will inform corporate strategy and business opportunities. Students will gain hands-on experience using popular data analytics and visualization tools, such as Tableau, to explore opportunities, gather insights, and make more informed decisions. The course will expose students to emerging technology enablers, such as machine learning and augmented/virtual reality tools, and effectively identify the role they can play in the organization's growth and renewal. Finally, we will discuss digital development and implementation strategies, including agile methods, to deliver digital technologies and gain adoption throughout the organization.

OIM7604 Special Topics: Entrepreneurship in a Digital World
(Formerly MBA7604)

If you took and passed MBA7604, you cannot register for OIM7604, as these two courses are equivalent

Digital technologies, processes and business models are impacting all aspects of businesses today, from startups to large organizations that need to practice corporate intrapreneurship. This course will focus on how digital strategies, tactics, and tools can be leveraged by today's entrepreneurial leaders to innovate, grow, and renew initiatives in their organizations. We will study how digital platforms can be used to scale operations, improve decision-making, and enable new business models to grow customers and revenue. Topics will include cloud computing platforms that focus on operations, employee collaboration, customer relationships, and machine-to-machine connections such as the Internet of Things (IoT) to capture, analyze, and share data and insights. New digital business models will be explored that will inform corporate strategy and business opportunities. Students will gain hands-on experience using popular data analytics and visualization tools, such as Tableau, to explore opportunities, gather insights, and make more informed decisions. The course will expose students to emerging technology enablers, such as machine learning and augmented/virtual reality tools, and effectively identify the role they can play in the organization's growth and renewal. Finally, we will discuss digital development and implementation strategies, including agile methods, to deliver digital technologies and gain adoption throughout the organization.

MBA7603-E01 Special Topics: Global Enterprising
3 CreditsThis course addresses the ways in which entrepreneurial value creation is affected by (and sometimes inspired by) social institutions and national business systems. In the proposed Miami Blended Learning program, we will provide students a chance to study the business environment of Latin America. The goal is to encourage students to practice Entrepreneurial Thought and Action (ET&A) within the institutional (e.g., social, political, cultural) environment in Latin America.

MBA7602 Special Topics: Social Innovation
3 Elective CreditsWe are living in a world where societal expectations of business have shifted and the lines between business, government, and the social sectors are being blurred. Businesses are called upon to create both economic and social value in new ways. This course addresses issues related to the social, economic, and environmental responsibilities of business. The topic of sustainability is also addressed.

MBA7400 Startup Foundations

0.5 CreditsThe Startup Foundations SLE will focus on Entrepreneurial Thought and Action, team building, and technology. In addition to sessions on Ideas and Barriers to Innovation, students will participate in a competitive, computer-based simulation (Techmark), develop processes that will support virtual and in-person teamwork, take their first classes in Entrepreneurship and Leadership, and attend a variety of networking events.

MBA7512 Storytelling/Communication with Data

3 Credits

In 2020, businesses are highly dependent on a data-driven decision-making model. The data explosion seen in the past few years makes managing and understanding data extremely difficult. Hence, there is a dire need to make sense and visualize the data effectively to solve problems. This course will introduce data visualization using Tableau for beginners. Students will learn best practices for data visualization and storytelling. Students will develop the expertise to generate powerful reports and dashboards to help businesses make decisions based on their data. They will create high-impact visualizations based on common data analysis, predictive analytics to improve business decisions. At the end of the course, students will be well prepared to take the level 3 tableau exam.

MSB6310 Storytelling/Communication with Data

3 Credits (MSBA Core)

In 2020, businesses are highly dependent on a data-driven decision-making model. The data explosion seen in the past few years makes managing and understanding data extremely difficult. Hence, there is a dire need to make sense and visualize the data effectively to solve problems. This course will introduce data visualization using Tableau for beginners. Students will learn best practices for data visualization and storytelling. Students will develop the expertise to generate powerful reports and dashboards to help businesses make decisions based on their data. They will create high-impact visualizations based on common data analysis, predictive analytics to improve business decisions. At the end of the course, students will be well prepared to take the level 3 tableau exam.

Prerequisites: MBA students will be required to review approximately 2 hours of pre-work videos

EPS7201 Strategic Innovation in Mature Organizations

3 Core Credits - Blended Miami Program Core Course

Corporations caught up in the web of commoditization and stagnation have come to realize that they need entrepreneurial capabilities to create new platforms of business that will be the promise of the future. Yet overall, these efforts have produced uneven success. Although entrepreneurs in organizations can benefit from the resources, experience, financial assets and networks of the large company, they are constrained by its bureaucratic practices. Recent evidence points to corporate leaders' renewed attention to developing management systems that work with, rather than against intrapreneurs. In this course we will examine various approaches companies have taken to build this organizational capability. We examine five different approaches and consider the shortcomings or each. We will build the rationale for why innovation must become an organizational function if a company truly wishes to compete for the Future. We focus at the organizational level rather than the individual project level, seeking insights about how organizations can institutionalize structures and processes for entrepreneurship, even within a dominant culture of operational excellence that, of necessity, pervades most large established firms.

MOB6601 Strategic Problem Formulation
1.5 Credits (MSAEL Core)This course prepares students to become effective problem solvers and lead strategic growth and renewal initiatives in companies. Through case studies on real-world business problems, students will become familiar with conducting analyses on industries and ecosystems, competitive advantages, organizational capabilities, and business models that enable them to identify strategic issues, challenges and opportunities facing companies, and formulate comprehensive problem-solving approaches that generate effective solutions.

Prerequisites: EPS6600 and MOB6600

MOB6602 Strategic Transformation
1.5 Credits (MSAEL core)

In order to effectively guide their organizations' strategic renewal through innovation, company leaders must have a vision of what their companies will become. They must be able to envision, shape and imagine a future, design processes for ensuring that happens, and gain the company's commitment to that shared vision. To execute on the strategic transformation agenda, a resource deployment plan must be implemented and metrics for tracking progress toward the future state need to be developed and monitored. In this course students will develop foresight skills, use them to draft domains of innovation intent and learn how to position those to company leaders.

Prerequisites: MOB6600 and EPS6600