Creativity and Critical Thinking (MSIN0081)

Success in today's organisational environment requires new ways of thinking. To cope with increasingly ambiguous and complex demands in knowledge-based organisations, individuals need to be able to generate many solutions, adapt, and critically assess alternatives. This course is designed to help develop these skills by presenting students with a variety of challenging activities and tasks.

Specifically, the course aims to identify the role and importance of creativity and critical thinking in organisations, discuss the factors that drive individual and group creative and critical thinking and identify how to apply creative and critical thinking skills to a variety of organisational and industry contexts.

This module introduces students to the key concepts and principles underlying how organisations make financial decisions and covers the theory and practice of...

Finance II (Investment Management) (MSIN0021)

This module introduces students to the key concepts and principles underlying how organisations make financial decisions and covers the theory and practice of making and managing project investment decisions.
Upon successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Understand the key financial decisions made by organisations and their impact.
Understand the impact of time and uncertainty on financial decisions. 
Understand and apply the concepts and tools needed to make project investment decisions, such as: Present Value, Net Present Value and the Opportunity Cost of Capital. 
Understand the practical problems involved in making project investment decisions including the practical challenges of collecting and estimating financial data. 
Understand the techniques used to understand project risk, such as: Sensitivity Analysis, Break-Even Analysis, Monte-Carlo Simulation and Decision Trees.

Healthcare industries are closely regulated by governments in order to ensure safety and efficacy of new medicines. This module provides an introduction to...