Graduate School in Electronics, Telecommunications and Automation

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• Graduate School in Electronics,
  Telecommunications and Automation
• MASTERING BUSINESS (3 - 5 ECTS)

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TOPICS OF THE COURSES

• Course 1. BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE TO TECHNOLOGY
• 2 ov / 3 p
• February 28March 1 2007, April 11, Hanasaari,
  Espoo
• Course 2. LEADERSHIP IN EXPERT ORGANISATIONS
• 3 ov / 5 p
• April 12, Hanasaari May 2324 2007, Micronova,
  TKK

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GOALS

• 1) Provide a working knowledge of leadership and
  entrepreneurship in Knowledge Intensive Business.
• 2) Introduce students to current topics in
  business research.
• 3) Create contacts and cooperation between
  students and managers in ICT-businesses.

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BACKGROUND ORGANISATIONS

• GETA (Ministry of Education, Finnish Academy)
  offers the course.
• Life Works Consulting Ltd has developed the
  course.
• Technology Industries of Finland recruits Finnish
  ICT-companies to participate with practical
  business problems
• WomEqual (WE-project) ESR provides funding

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TO WHOM?

• GETA post graduate students
• Post graduate students in GETA member
  universities and units (TKK, TUT, UO, UT and UJy)
• TKK graduate students in ICT with a major in
  circuit, automation, electronics, information and
  communications engineering
• Women in particular! (ESR Equal-project)

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BY WHOM?

• Instructors
• Adjunct professor (Bus. Adm.)
• Heidi Keso
• Adjunct professor (Bus. Adm.)
• Hanna Lehtimäki
• Adjunct professor (Bus. Adm.) Tarja Pietiläinen
• From Life Works Consulting Ltd

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CONTENT OF THE COURSE 1Business Perspective to
Technology (3 p)

• The role of strategic networks in business
  operations
• Customer perspective to product development
• Leadership of diversity
• Contribution of own research skills findings to
  business development

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HOW DO WE STUDY?

• Pre-reading Keijo Räsänen (1996) Kehittyvä
  liiketoiminta - haaste tulevaisuuden osaajille
• Discussion on the current topics in business
  research
• Hands-on-exercises
• Workshops 3 x 1 day
• Collaborative learning with companies
• Selected ICT-companies introduce their day to day
  operations
• Team work with companies on relevant topics to
  the companies
• Team reports at the end of the course

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WHAT WILL I LEARN IN COURSE 2? Leadership in
Expert Organisations (5 p)

• 1) To identify and analyse solutions to
  information intensive and networked business
  demands
• How does my expertise contribute to current
  business challenges?
• 2) To understand special issues in business
  operations and leadership in Knowledge Intensive
  Business
• What are the challenges of team working, when
  people are different?
• 3) To create expert based career options in
  business
• What kind of career paths expert organisation
  provide and how can I analyse my own work
  orientation?

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HOW DO WE STUDY? Leadership in Expert
Organisations (5 p)

• Pre-reading Arja Ropo, Marja Eriksson, Erika
  Sauer, Hanna Lehtimäki, Heidi Keso, Tarja
  Pietiläinen Niina Koivunen (2005). Jaetun
  johtajuuden särmät.
• Pre-exercise
• Workshops 3 x 1 day
• Business development case in collaboration with
  selected ICT-companies

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REGISTRATION

• BY February 15, 2007
• Use the form on GETA web-pages wooster.hut.fi/geta
  
• Present your capabilities and interests related
  to the course topics
• Max. 20 participants do not wait any longer!
• Participants of the first course are given a
  first priority to second course

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Thank you for your attention!