Postgraduate Diploma in Technology Management
Open University
Key Information
Campus location
Online United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
2 - 8 years
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 5,785 *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* £5,785–£9,880
Introduction
This postgraduate diploma will help you manage technology and innovation more effectively and realise its potential benefits – making a real difference to your organisation and your own professional development. You’ll begin by focusing on the operational aspects of managing technological innovation and change, before engaging with a range of capabilities that are key to the development and delivery of technological innovation – applying your learning to your own context as you study. A wide range of optional modules enables you to choose a study pathway that suits your particular interests, including computing and ICT, business and management, development management and environmental management.
Key features of the course
- Provides an analytical view of strategic issues in technology management.
- Equips you for senior technology management roles.
- The opportunity to top up to our MSc in Technology Management in just one more year.
Program Outcome
The learning outcomes of this qualification are described in four areas:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Cognitive skills
- Practical and professional skills
- Key skills
Curriculum
Course details
To gain this qualification, you need 120 credits as follows:
60 credits from:
- Strategic capabilities for technological innovation (T849)
- Technology innovation management (TB801)
Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T840, T846 and T848
60 credits from:
- Advanced networking (CCNP Enterprise) (T829)
- Advance your independent learning (YXM830)
- Contemporary issues in organisations (BB853)
- Continuing professional development in education (U810)
- Creating and sustaining value (B872)
- Data management (M816)
- Digital forensics (M812)
- Entrepreneurship in context (BB851)
- Information security (M811)
- Leadership and management of public services (BB852)
- Making environmental decisions (T891)
- Making strategy with systems thinking in practice (TB871)
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (TB872)
- Managing for sustainability (T867)
- Managing in a changing world (B870)
- Manufacture materials design (T805)
- Network security (T828)
- Project management (M815)
- Software development (M813)
- Software engineering (M814)
- Sustainable creative management (BB842)
The University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 40 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that we’ve previously awarded to you.