Healthcare Leadership Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)

University of Worcester

Innovation is the cornerstone of sustained economic growth and to maintain competitive advantage. Innovation may be risky, but no innovation is riskier still. Bill Gates used to say of Microsoft that it was always only 2 years away from extinction. Innovation is the key to developing solutions for some of the major sustainability challenges the world faces. Enterprises have developed greener operations, developed greater fusion between technology and the natural world and developed some radical eco-innovations in the process. This module looks at the ways in which organisations innovate and explores some of the features, concepts and frameworks around the management of innovation and ideation whilst reviewing various innovation audits to support and enhance innovation capacity.

On this module, you'll develop critical and conceptual understanding of the global health landscape together with the processes of globalisation and global change. You will analyse the diverse drivers and contributors of health globally, with critical consideration of their profound impact on health systems. You'll engage in our problem-based learning approach that relates to a specific management and/or leadership area of practice.

This module is relevant to the study of business as there is an increasing pressure upon organisations to behave in an ethical and sustainable manner. The purpose of the module is to develop an awareness of why this pressure has become so acute and to encourage students to evaluate responses that could be made to ethical dilemmas, from both a theoretical and practical perspective at individual, organisational, government and supra-national level.

The challenges and demands of business leadership require informed scrutiny in the context of current and emerging contexts such as the collapse of old economies, the 4th industrial revolution, climate change, and the global shift in economic power. The aim of this module is to provide the learner with conceptual and applied leadership skills to enable effective organisational change processes. Techniques to explore organisational conditions, evaluate change indicators, and deliver sustainable change effectively will be reviewed in-depth.

On this module you'll explore key digital technologies and a data-driven approach to decision making. The legal and ethical challenges of digital transformation are also explored.

Effective and informed decision making in financial matters is at the heart of sustainable Business Development. This is particularly so in an age of global competition and instant communications. The aim of this module is to explore key accounting practice and the associated decision-making tools within organisations. Drawing upon the disciplines of financial and management accounting, this module will enable students to gain an appreciation of the type of financial information that is routinely produced by organisations for both internal and external use. Using a range of business scenarios we will apply relevant accounting techniques to critically evaluate and interpret the financial information at our disposal, before going on to consider the limitations of these techniques and the role of associated non-financial information.

This module facilitates your development of an applied understanding of quality improvement which will equip you for leading quality improvement in your future careers in healthcare leadership. You will design a practice-based quality improvement initiative and consider every stage of the quality improvement journey, including problem analysis, defining what a good service looks like, and sustainability of quality improvement.