Academic staff

Craig Tapper 
BA, Mcom UNSW, MBA UTS, FAICD, Strategic Management of Business and Technology, 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.

Dr Tracy Wilcox
B AppSc UTS, MCom PhD UNSW, 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.

Dr Mehreen Faruqi
PhD (Envn Eng) MEngSc UNSW, BE (Civil) (Hons) UET Lahore, Business Management for a Sustainable Environment
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, E-Business: Strategy and Management;Information Systems Management
E-business has provided new and innovative ways in which organisations can conduct business. It impacts every part of our lives including on-line banking, paying our insurance, social networking and music downloads. The E-Business: Strategy and Management course aims to help participants understand how to manage all aspect of an organisation’s e-business portfolio in this on-line environment. Information Systems Management deals with the relationship between the organisation and its information systems, strategic and tactical planning for information systems and the management of the development and acquisition of systems and technology. Attention is paid to issues such as outsourcing vs insourcing, business continuity planning and the provision of information for decision makers. The focus is on management, not the technology itself.
 
These courses are 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.

Dr Ian Benton
DBA (SCU), MBA (UNE), BComm (Otago), Managing Agile Organisations
Behind managing agile organisations effectively is a myriad of applicable management theory. In Managing Agile Organisations (MAO), we will demystify that theory and invite students to unleash its value in analysis of their own organisation (or another that they know well). It is becoming increasingly important in the current business environment to be able to do this to good effect.

Beyond those skills of organisational analysis, we will further investigate the importance of achieving and managing agility of politics, power, cross-functional interaction, inter-organisational alliances, commitment, managing change, and critical aspects of leadership, leaders and leading. Students of MAO are sure to undergo a transformation of their present management perspective.

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