OSM442

Cleveland State University Monte Ahuja College of Business

Syllabus OSM 442

Innovation Management (3-03) Online

Spring 2018 Course: OSM 442 Instructor: Jay H Schach – EMBA Monte Ahuja College of Business -

Entrepreneur - Adjunct Professor Correspondence: E-Mail or text Office Hours: Will respond to emails within 24 hours Office Phone: 440-247-6702 - Mobile when important - Text - After 3:00 pm E-mail: [email protected] Textbook:

Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 4th Edition by Melissa A Schilling - ISBN-13: 978-0078029233 ISBN-10: 0078029236

Additional Reading: Wall Street Journal

Additional Requirements: This course is offered online. Course content will be delivered via the Blackboard course management system. The instructor will communicate with students via a variety of interactive tools including discussions, announcements, email, and chat. There will be no required face-to-face meetings for this course, but students will be expected to make weekly progress online. A computer and access to the internet are required.

Prerequisites: Business students with junior standing or permission of OSM Department Chair

Course Information

OSM 442 - Students learn how to manage and foster innovation from a general manager's perspective.

Topics covered include models describing the types of innovation, differences between incremental and radical innovation, protection of intellectual property, fostering creativity, and new product development processes, such as Stage-Gate.

Class Time: Online all assignments due weekly Monday at Midnight Classroom: Blackboard

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Term Begins January 13, 2018 Spring Recess March 11-18, 2018 Last Day to Withdraw from Courses March 30, 2018 Last Day of Classes May 4, 2018 Final Exam Week (Saturday through Friday) May 5-11, 2018 Commencement May 12, 2018 Final Grades Submission Deadline (All Sessions) May 15, 2018 Final Grades Available to Students May 16, 2018

OBJECTIVES

Students will learn through interactive tools including discussions, announcements, email, and chat. From a managers point of view the student will research the Technology Industry from a global and trend perspective, parallel with the Strategic Management of Technological Innovation. Teaching Philosophy During the online class students will be required to use the tools available to them on Blackboard. Assignment due dates are firm as we will be moving along at a fast pace to really understand the whole Technology Industry. AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT Reasonable accommodations are available for any student who has a documented disability. Please notify me as soon as possible so that we can address the issue promptly. All accommodations must be approved per Cleveland State University guidelines. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY I encourage students to study together and to discuss assignments together, but all work submitted for grading must be the student’s or the group’s, own original work. Any form of academic cheating (including plagiarism, use of another’s assignment, exam cheating) will result in a grade of F for the course. I reserve the right to impose further consequences based on the situation. All violations will be reported to academic affairs. GRADING Grades will not be rounded or curved. Graded activities and applicable weights are:

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Grade Scale A 95.00-100% A- 91.00-94.99% B+ 88.00-90.99% B 84.00-87.99% B- 80.00-83.99% C 70.00-79.99% F Below 70.00% Graded Activities

● Market Watch 160 ● Quiz Chapter’s 260 ● Weekly Blog Current Events 160 ● Reflection Papers - Four 80 ● Case Studies - Text/WSJ 80 ● Final Market Watch Project 80 ● Total Points 820

Late Submission Every assignment is due Midnight Monday each week. Submission at any time thereafter is late, and every late assignment will receive a 10% deduction for every day after the due date . Assignments will not be accepted one week after the due date.. Statute of Limitations If you have any questions regarding the grading of assignments or exams, you have one week following the day on which the work is returned or reviewed with the class to bring the question to my attention.

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Policy on Written Work Written work should be submitted so that it is of business quality (e.g., misspellings, typographical and grammatical errors, and overall sloppiness are not acceptable and WILL BE penalized). Therefore, content will be 90% of the grade and presentation will be the other 10%. All written work must use a 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, and be double spaced. Every sentence must have two spaces between it and the next sentence. The first line of each paragraph must be indented five spaces and paragraphs will follow each other, with no additional spacing between them. Every assignment must have a cover page, indicating the student’s name and ID number, the date, and the assignment title. Each font, margin, paragraph, spacing, and/or cover page error will result in a 2-point deduction, up to 10% of the grade.

GRADED WORK DETAILS AND INSTRUCTIONS All assignment directions will be posted on Blackboard. Participation Regular participation is critical to your understanding and mastery of the material, as well as to your understanding of assignment and project requirements. We need everyone involved so that we may hear, understand, and consider different points of view, and to maximize the learning experience (including for me). In this sense, the online discussions operate very much as in the job environment, in which people from different parts of the organization are brought together to solve a problem. Employers often form opinions about their employees based upon such sessions or other forms of verbal input, and I will do the same for purposes of grading this aspect of your performance. Participation also takes other forms, including participation in activities and submission of short assignments, as well as enhancing class knowledge with your own experience. CHANGES This course description and outline are subject to change at any time during the course. You are responsible for any changes announced during class, and your absence from a given class is not an acceptable excuse for failing to comply with announced changes.

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