ENT203 Disruptive Innovation - Assessment Tasks

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Brief

Assessment 1: Written Summaries x 2 ( Individual)

Length: 750 words for each summary (750 words × 2 = 1500 words); Weighting: 40% Due date:

1^st written summary – Week 4 (Friday 4.00pm) 2^nd written summary – Week 6 (Friday 4.00pm)

Task description: You will prepare two written summaries critically reviewing:

1. Business disruption theories in practice (due Week 4) and;
2. Factors driving Australian business disruption (due Week 6)

Each summary has a 750-word limit and carries 15% weight (15%×2=30%).

Assessment criteria: You will be assessed on how you demonstrate a thorough understanding of the concepts and practices recently introduced in class, and the real-world impacts they have on Australian industry. Overall, you will be assessed on how critically you:

• Review and discuss key theories and models of disruptive innovation in business contexts, and
• Describe and analyse the factors and conditions that lead to disruptive business

Assessment 2: Written Critical Analysis ( Individual)

Length: 1000 words; Weighting: 20% Due date: Week 09, Friday 4.00pm

Task description: You are to critically analyse an emerging technology and its likely disruption to an existing industry. Recommend a disruption response strategy for management within the existing industry, based on your exposure predictions.

Assessment criteria: This task assesses your evaluation of a technology, your analysis of the exposure effects of the technology on your chosen industry, and your recommendation (s) on how these may be realistically and effectively tackled. Your writing is expected to be clear and well-evidenced with reliable sources. Overall, you will be assessed on how critically you:

• Describe and analyse the factors and conditions that lead to disruptive business innovations, and
• Identify industries/firms/organisations facing disruptive innovation dilemmas and exercise critical thinking and judgment in providing adaptive

Assessment 3:  Case Study Analysis ( Individual)

Length: 2000 words

Due date: Week 11, Friday 4.00pm; Weighting: 40%

Task description: In this assessment, you are to critically examine a leading, established real-world organisation. In your examination, you should make a judgement on its risk of exposure to innovation disruption, and recommend strategies for minimising that risk.

Assessment criteria: This task assesses your evaluation of an established organisation, your judgement of its risk of exposure to innovation disruption, and your suggested strategy (ies) to realistically and effectively minimise these risks. Your writing is expected to be clear and well-evidenced with reliable sources. Overall, you will be assessed on how meaningfully you:

• Thorough review and discuss key theories and models of disruptive innovation in business contexts,
• Describe and analyse the factors and conditions that lead to disruptive business innovations,
• Identify industries/firms/organisations facing disruptive innovation dilemmas and exercise critical thinking and judgement in providing adaptive solutions, and
• In-depth analyse exposure and response strategies for managing disruptive innovation within existing
• Prescribed and recommended reading

Prescribed Texts

Ekekwe, N., & Islam, N. (2012). Disruptive technologies, innovation and global redesign: Emerging implications.

Recommended Reading

1. Christensen, (2013). The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press.
2. Christensen, C.M., & Raynor, M.E. (2013). The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth. Harvard Business Review
3. Christensen, M., Raynor, M.E., &McDonald, R. (2015). What is Disruptive Innovation,
4. Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen (2019). Innovator's DNA, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Harvard Business Review ISBN1633697207, 9781633697201
5. Sirlei de Almeida Pereira et al., (2015). Business Model as an Inducer of Disruptive Innovations: The Case of Gol Airlines. International Journal of Innovation, 3(2), 28–42.
6. Wooldridge, A. (2015). The Great Disruption: How Business is Coping with Turbulent Times.