Program Director Contact Details:
Project Management
Name: Professor Vernon Ireland
Phone: +61 411 153 861
Email: vernon.ireland@adelaide.edu.au

Teaching Staff:
Name: Mr John Maclay BSc (Chemical Engineering), MBA, GAICD, Assoc IIB.

Short Bio: John Maclay has operated at the executive level in the corporate and enterprise sectors. He is experienced in taking products to market and establishing new markets in the wider manufacturing, resource sectors, specialty retailing, services sectors and with a technology start-up company. In those roles he has implemented innovative cultures that have turned these businesses from returning a flat to declining business result to substantial growth through changing the basis of competition.

Expertise includes relaunching the Brand and the customer experience once in the store, changing the basis of competition to achieve business growth in what had been flat to declining businesses, initiating alliances and partnerships at strategic accounts to deliver customer value and working with distributors and wholesalers, as well as direct supply to deliver the customer’s requirements. He has developed the ability to establish an innovative environment within businesses and align resources to take technologies to market. A business mentor and coach who works with individuals to maximize their potential and their project management skills.

An extensive career with 3M where he rose to be regional Technical Director while General Manager of the Industrial Markets Sector of 3M Australia, General Manager of Konica Photographics, CEO of Camera House a co-operative retail chain and COO of Fluorosolar Systems Ltd a Start-up Company in the Green Energy Market. He is currently contracted as Program Manager for the Hargraves Institute, a member driven business best practices network that operate in an innovative environment that focuses on Leadership, Sustainability and Supply Chain Excellence.

He lectures and tutors at the graduate and post graduate level, on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity at the University of Adelaide, Business Management at the University of Western Sydney, International Strategic Management at Macquarie University and Technology and Innovation Management at the University of Technology Sydney. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of Western Sydney’s Centre for Industry & Innovation Studies.An Accredited Associate of the Institute for Independent Business, an international network of business advisors that focuses on the enterprise sector with practical business advice that works. An Associate of the Creative Skills Training Council, an International Council that focuses on developing the skills within organizations that are associated with creativity and innovation.

Email: john.maclay@adelaide.edu.au

Phone: +61 (0) 400457182

Opening intensive:
Friday 31 October 2014             7pm-10pm
Saturday 1 November 2014        1pm-8pm
Sunday 2 November 2014          9am-4pm

Closing intensive:
Friday 28 November 2014          7pm-10pm
Saturday 29 November 2014      1pm-8pm
Sunday 30 November 2014        9am-4pm

The key learning objectives of this course are:

1. Develop an understanding of the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in the economy.
2. Develop skills in creativity and appreciate its role in innovation.
3. Develop skills in entrepreneurship and understand the difficulties in stages of the process.
4. Have an appreciation of creating future scenarios and technology forecasting.
5. Develop business proposals and plans that are likely to succeed.
6. Ability to analyse, evaluate and synthesise information in order to evaluate business opportunities.
7. Develop skills in taking creative ideas to successful businesses and projects.
8. Leadership of opportunity creating teams.
9. Use of modern business techniques to evaluate, develop and manage information.
10. Recognition of ethical, social and cultural issues in opportunity development.

Text book:
Thompson A.A., Peteraf M.A., Gamble J.E. and Strickland A.J. (2012), Crafting and Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Cases and Concepts, 18^th Edition, McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780078112720 or 19^th Edition, McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780078029509

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