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Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation

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Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation

Instructor: Yu-Qian Zhu, Ph.D.  Email: yzhu@mail.ntust.edu.tw 

Phone: (02)2737-6772         Office: T2-405-5

Time: Tuesday 13:30 —16:20

Course Description

In this course, students will study various principles of technological innovation that drive major business transformations and lead to the creation of more intelligent and agile enterprises. We then discuss, using current emerging technologies as examples, how these technologies can be applied to various business fields. We explore various business opportunities that new technologies create, and gain insights into how they could lead to major transformations in the ways we do business and enable the creation of “smart businesses.”

This course will help students 1) get acquainted with the latest topics in technology, 2) learn the tools necessary to identify a potential business opportunity enabled by new technologies, and 3) provide a feasibility analysis of such an opportunity.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for MIS and MBA students that are interested in 1) understanding  information technologies and their business impact, 2) using emerging technologies to provide new service/product, and 3)using emerging technologies to improve current business model or process.

Course Requirements

  1. Class participation

Student participation in all class activities is an integrated part of the course. Class participation grades will be based on the following rules: 1) Attendance. For every class you miss without proper reason, your grade will be deducted by 1 point. 2) The quality of the individual’s contribution in discussions in class.

  1. Case Write-Ups

Students finish their case studies in groups of 3 to 4. We have a total of 5 cases, with the first case as a practice case (not scored). Case 2 to 5 has 15 points each. Each group need to turn in a case write-up in the format of Power point file prior to class.

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