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Capability Option Analysis - ZEIT8403

Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

School: School of Engineering & Information Technology @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Course Outline: ZEIT 8403 Course Outline

Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Restricted to students enrolled in Graduate Diploma or Masters programs.

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course trains students into giving qualitative and quantitative insights into the relative merits of agreed options by using live and constructive simulation, studies and experimentation tools to provide rigour and structured analysis to support major decisions. Topics covered include: Business Cases, Options Development, Best Practice of Experimentation and Experimentation Design, Measures of effectiveness and data collection, Gaming, Agent-based Modelling, Experimentation, Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Risk, SMART and AHP.

Learning Outcomes

At the successful completion of this course:
1. You will understand the context of capability based planning and various theoretical perspectives, processes and techniques used in strategic management.
2. You will enhance your skills in analysing capability gaps and generating options to address these gaps.
3. You will have developed skills in analysing different capabilities and options and selecting appropriate tools to choose among these options. You will understand principles for developing a coherent and informative business case based on your analysis.
4. You will learn decision making techniques under risk for single and multiple attribute decision problems.

Delivery Mode

Distance or Intensive Distance Mode

Topics

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Assessment

There are four assesment items in this course
Assignment #1 15%
Assignment #2 25%
Assignment #3 40%
Assignment #4 20%

Course Texts

Prescribed Texts:
Geoff Coyle (2004) Practical Strategy: Structured Tools and techniques, Financial Times Prentice Hall, ISBN-13:978-0273682202
Paul Goodwin and George Wright (2009) Decision Analysis for Management Judgement, Wiley; 4th ed, ISBN978-0-470-71439-3

Recommended Text:
Some lectures will use the following materials:
Svetoslav Gaidow, Seng Boey and Richard Egudo (2006) A Review of the Capability Options Development and Analysis System and the Role of Risk Management, DSTO, DSTO-GD-0473
http://dspace.dsto.defence.gov.au/dspace/bitstream/1947/4430/1/DSTO-GD-0473.PR.pdf

Resources

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Study Levels

Undergraduate Study Postgraudate Study Postgraduate Research Study Non-Award Study

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