Course summary

Develop a creative approach to business that leads to true innovation in today’s fast-paced business world and become an outstanding business leader. Through design thinking and practical exercises that build on theory, you will enhance your management and leadership capabilities and develop an entrepreneurial mindset. You will benefit from the expertise of committed and research-active teaching staff with excellent academic and business experience. Visiting guest speakers, with a range of specialisms, and the course’s links to the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) will enhance your knowledge. Students come from a wide variety of backgrounds, with diverse entrepreneurial experience, contributing to a dynamic learning experience that includes business simulations, problem-solving and blended learning. Approaching business problems creatively, you will develop a skill set for tackling complex issues based on a deep understanding of client needs, collaborative working, cross-disciplinary thinking, personal reflection and rapid prototyping of new ideas. At the master’s stage, you will complete a dissertation. The University of Gloucestershire also accredits both the offline and online MBA in Leading Business which has been designed with SMEs in mind. This award is offered through QuoLux Modules Descriptions

• Leadership by Design: Facilitate organisations to achieve their financial and social aims in a rapidly changing economy

• Innovation and Change by Design: Engage with real-world situations to experience managing innovation and change

• International Management Project: Deepen cultural awareness through a period of immersion in an overseas location

• Strategic Management: Scenario-driven approach to strategic success