Craig Tapper

BA, Mcom UNSW, MBA UTS, FAICD

Course Coordinator and Facilitator,
Strategic Management of Business and Technology
and
Development of New Products and Services

Imagine a road trip based on ‘let’s just see where we end up.’ Yet this is exactly how some managers operate! In technology-enabled organisations and the fast changing world today a strategic direction is as important as a journey with a good map. It’s not guaranteed to go exactly as planned, but you’ll most likely end up close to where you intended.

And like the best of journeys, this course offers the chance to share the experiences and perspective of fellow travellers (students) from a dozen countries and industries – after all it’s the people you remember most, not the scenery!

Tracy Wilcox

B AppSc UTS, MCom UNSW

Course Coordinator and Facilitator,
Managing for Organisational Sustainability

Increasingly, decision makers in organisations are being called on to justify their actions to shareholders, regulators and the wider community. In this environment, an understanding of issues like global sustainability, corporate social responsibility and stakeholder management has become essential to management education. In accepting the professional responsibilities that go with management roles, our graduates will be better equipped to bring a broader understanding of these business concerns to their own workplaces. In Managing for Organisational Sustainability, we explore the interconnectedness of individual management decisions with broader social and economic contexts, and consider ways of harnessing and developing people-related capabilities to help ensure organisational sustainability.

Jürgen Oschadleus,
BA(Hons), HDE, MA, MBA, PMP®

Course Coordinator and Facilitator,
Supply Chain Management
and Facilitator,
Project Management

The 21st century economy requires a significantly different approach to how we manage our organisations for competitive advantage. Technology has not only changed organisations, but has created whole new industries, structures and needs. One of the hallmarks for successful organisations of the future is their ability to seamlessly integrate their day-to-day operations into the overall supply chain, with both upstream and downstream partners. The focus of the Supply Chain Management course addresses this organisational imperative and explores methods by which organisations can more effectively link their operational and supply chain management functions.

Dr Mehreen Faruqi

PhD (Envn Eng) MEngSc UNSW, BE (Civil) (Hons) UET Lahore,

Course Coordinator and Facilitator,
Environmental Management

Environment and sustainability issues such as climate change and water management are now centre stage. There is no better time to seriously put ‘sustainability’ into organisational and individual practice. The MBT’s Environmental Management course primarily focuses on the need for business/industry and organisations to address the changes required to enable an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable future. Designed around an ‘environmental management system’ framework, this course provides an understanding of constraints, challenges and opportunities facing businesses when managing environment and sustainability issues and provides the strategies to address these using proactive and strategic approaches.

I am always delighted and inspired by the passionate views we share across the Web while discussing the course material, especially as they come from such different perspectives and often from different parts of the global community. Margaret Mead once said, ‘"Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” I think we have our ‘small group of people’ right here in the Environmental Management course.

Professor Graham Low
BE (Chem) Qld PhD Qld FACS MIEEE

Course Coordinator and Facilitator,
E-Business: Strategy and Management

The digital organisation is fast becoming a reality. Part of this change is the increasing use of e-business by organisations. The value of e-business transactions in 2000 was $18 billion with a predicted figure for 2004 between $3-7 trillion for business-to-business transactions and online shopping. The successful management of the e-business portfolio is critical to the success of the digital organisation. The E-Business: Strategy and Management course looks at all aspects of the management of the e-business portfolio.

The course is particularly enjoyable due to the high level of interaction between the students, many of whom have a wealth of practical experience that they share. This interaction provides a stimulating learning environment which I particularly enjoy as a facilitator.

Professor Wai Fong Chua
BA (1st Hons) PhD Sheffield, ASCPA, ACA

Course Coordinator and Facilitator,
Managing Agile Organisations

Managing Agile Organisations seeks to create managers who are thinking, reflective and analytical practitioners of their craft. Agile firms constantly change, and a focus on interaction and process enables us to appreciate the fluidity, complexity and ambiguity of all organisations. We study the management of symbolic meaning, of authority and power, and of values, with readings drawn both from an extensive research literature and from publications such as the Harvard Business Review.

While facilitating this course is sometimes challenging because the material is difficult in places, it is very satisfying when participants do engage and finally embrace the message within the text, for they then appreciate a different perspective on their worlds of work.