Undergraduate GRF-GBS109-2022
Grand Challenges for Business
$1,828 $2,078
Your upfront cost: $0
Duration
12 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- HECS-HELP
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 18 Jul 2022
- 07 Nov 2022
QS RANKING 2022
17
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
13
Subject details
After successfully completing this subject you should be able to:
- Utilise knowledge, skills, and confidence to critically analyse a broad range of business challenges and problem-solving processes.
- Employ creative and critical thinking approaches to collaboratively explore business problems across many contexts and situations.
- Collaborate with others to identify and manage challenges for business.
- Use written and visual aids to effectively communicate and present solutions to problems.
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- Module 1: Introduction to Grand Challenges
- Module 2: Collaboration and forming teams
- Module 3: Introduction to problem solving
- Module 4: Meta Framework for approaching problems
- Module 5: Problem Analysis Frameworks
- Module 6:Problem Framing
- Module 7: Solution Development
- Module 8: Ethical and Sustainable Problem-Solving
- Module 9: Project Management
- Module 10: Solution Implementation and Evaluation
- Module 11: Communicating Solutions
- Module 12: National Perspectives on Problem Solving
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
We live in a VUCA ( volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world today. The grand challenges facing humanity are urgent, systemic, complicated and evolving faster than ever before. That is why the World Economic Forum has listed complex problem solving as one of the top ten skills for the 21st century. Complex problem solving requires critical and lateral thinking, reasoning, analysis, interpretation, synthesising information, research skills, reflection, creativity, curiosity, imagination, innovation, perseverance, self-direction, planning, self-discipline, adaptability, initiative, teamwork and collaboration. In this course, you will be exposed to concepts and frameworks associated with grand challenges and problem-solving techniques. Through interactive course materials and weekly workshops, you will learn by doing - look at problems from different perspectives, apply (where possible) solutions to grand challenges in a proper context, and very importantly, learn how to pitch your solutions.
Commonwealth Supported Students who intend to complete a Griffith University Subject as Cross-Institutional Study in a degree from their home institution need to complete a Cross-Institutional Study application form, to ensure the correct fee is charged.
- Online Quiz (20%)
- Grand Challenge Problem (40%)
- Solution Development and Pitching (40%)
Current study term: 17 Jul 22 to 14 Oct 22
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Next study term: 06 Nov 22 to 15 Jan 23
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