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Achieving Sustainable Improvement and Transformation, 7.5 Credits
Hållbara förbättringar och transformationer i en organisation, 7,5 Högskolepoäng
Established: 2025-02-27
Established by: Department of Engineering Science
Applies from: V26
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of improvements, transformations, and management and their importance for organizational success and sustainable results
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the challenges and opportunities for improvement, transformation, and management.
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of current research themes related to the improvement, transformation, and management.
Competence and skills
- critically analyze current research themes and practical challenges for contemporary organizations' improvements, transformations, and management.
- identify and justify possible research questions in improvements, transformations, and management.
- perform a scientific study on a specific research topic related to improvements, transformations, and management.
- in a scientific way document, the completed study, and orally present and defend it
- critically analyze and assess the quality of a scientific paper in the area of improvement, transformation, and management and give suggestions for development.
Entry requirements
General entry requirements and approved result from the following course/courses: VSI700-Operations Strategy and Execution or the equivalent.
The forms of assessment of student performance
Individual written exam. Individual written report and oral presentation.
Course contents
The course is an advanced level course relevant in the field of industrial engineering and management. The course will deal with the dynamics of organizational improvement, transformation and management, guided by theories and models from quality management, operations management, change management and innovation management. The course provides insights into how these concepts contribute to customer satisfaction, organizational success and a sustainable society. The course includes:
- Improvements, transformations and management of organizations through theories, models and ideas from areas such as quality management, operations management, change management and innovation management.
- The importance of organizational development for customer satisfaction, organizational success and a more sustainable society.
- Current knowledge and research on the characteristics of successful contemporary organizations.
- A project where the student is given the opportunity to choose a research area (within the scope of the course) for in-depth study.
The main field of study of industrial engineering and management includes industrial organization and operations management, logistics, purchasing, quality management, change management and knowledge management, with industrial marketing, financial management, business development and environmental technology as related subjects. Industrial engineering and management is defined as an interdisciplinary subject that integrates technical, organizational and economic perspectives to analyze, plan and improve resource management and business processes. The focus is on creating sustainable and effective solutions in complex systems taking into account technical, ecological, social and economic aspects from a holistic perspective. The main areas of emphasis within the main field of study of industrial engineering and management at University West are knowledge management in logistics, development of Lean and agile systems with digitalization, resilience in supply chains, decision models for data-driven decision-making, operations management and quality and operations development. The subject has a strong applied and technical profile and addresses practice-relevant challenges for companies and organizations.
Other regulations
Course grading: F/Fx/E/D/C/B/A - Insufficient, Insufficient- more work required before the credit can be awarded, Sufficient, Satisfactory, Good, Very Good, Excellent
Course language: The teaching is conducted in English.
General rules pertaining to examination at University West are available at www.hv.se.
If the student has a decision/recommendation on special support due to disability, the examiner has the right to examine the student in a customized examination form.
Cycle
Second cycle
Progressive specialization
A1F - Second cycle, has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Main field of study
Industrial Engineering and Management