TLI Fall 2022 Curriculum

MOT 8112 Accounting for Decision Making (1.5 credits)
Exploration of management accounting as an information framework to organize, evaluate and report proprietary data in order to evaluate a firm's sustainable advantage in competitive tech markets. Adopts a case-driven approach to discuss how this data can be used for strategic decision making for the firm.

MOT 8114 Strategic Technology Analysis (1.5 credits)
Understanding the context of technology in business management and its interaction with industry, society and the economy. Introduces tools and techniques for assessing technology readiness and success probability. Reviews risk management and uncertainty in technology development. 

MOT 8121 Managing Organizations in a Technological Environment (1.5 credits)
General management principles for organizations, people and business systems in technology-intensive industries. Includes organization growth dynamics, strategy, innovation and talent management with a focus on leadership and change management.

MOT 8133 Managerial Communications for Technology Leaders: Persuasive Writing and Speaking (2 credits)
Persuasive strategies for connecting with an audience, creating goodwill, building trust and reducing conflict while avoiding common errors that undermine credibility. Features nine behavioral practices for speaking effectively while thinking on your feet.

MOT 8501 Leading Individual & Team Performance (1.5 credits)
Innovation leadership in complex and dynamic environments. Focuses on context and capability for leaders to optimize engagement and performance at individual and team levels. Emphasizes self-awareness through individual and peer feedback and development of action plans to enhance leadership effectiveness.

MOT 8900 Conflict Management (0.5 credit)
Theory and methods for applying conflict management techniques. Review the cooperative and competitive models of conflict, bargaining basics, conflict strategies, communication styles, listening skills, dispute resolution, third-party mediation and other tools for conflict mediation.

MOT 8111 Marketing Management for Technology-Based Organizations (2 credits)
Introduction to the function of marketing strategy in technology-driven organizations, including foundational concepts of product strategy, distribution channels and pricing. Explores strategic market discovery from market sizing through competitive responses.

MOT 8122 Financial Management for Technology-Based Organizations (1.5 credits)
Overview of financial methods critical for technology-based managers and organizations. Key topics include creating and measuring value, projecting financial needs and managing working capital. Outlines differences between corporate and venture finance with an emphasis on financing new ventures.

MOT 8214 Technology Foresight and Forecasting (2 credits)
Examination of tools and techniques for strategic foresight and forecasting of technology deliverables. Applies tools and concepts to critical decision-making for corporate and organizational strategy. Topics include technology analysis, dynamics, evolution, management and resource allocation.

MOT 8218 Digital Transformation (1 credit)
Effective methods to transform into a digital organization. Examines how a highly-intentional collaboration between technology and business leaders can identify what being digital means for a company and where it is on the digital maturity continuum. Discusses pragmatic digital transformation journeys grounded in other firms' experiences.

MOT 8221 Program Management and Knowledge Management (1.5 credits)
Effective project management principles to support both core operations and innovation growth. Emphasizes practical application for effective project delivery. Knowledge management features a conceptual framework for evaluating knowledge assets.

MOT 8502 Innovation Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (1 credit)
Exploration of how leaders can be developers of innovation strategy and architects of organizational capability, fostering team commitment to execute strategic choices. Discusses various principles and practices to foster continuous improvement in individual and business performance and to sustain commitment among diverse stakeholders.

MOT 8212 Developing New Technology Products and Services (2 credits)
Exploration of how firms select, evaluate and launch new technology products and services (including product modifications). Dissects the strategic components behind new product decision-making, supported by fact-based tools and principles. 

MOT 8224 Pivotal Technologies (1 credit)
Identification of selected technologies expected to play key roles in future industrial development. Discusses state-of-the-art status for each selection and analyzes commercialization barriers and opportunities. Includes group analysis of potential applications to various industry sectors. 

MOT 8233 Strategic Management of Technology (2 credits)
Strategies that enable technology-intensive companies to reinvent themselves. Introduces a formula for a sustained competitive advantage that starts with external and internal analysis and proceeds to action items for companies to change their corporate, global and innovation strategies. A rich cadre of case-study examples is reviewed.

MOT 8234 MOT Capstone Project (0.5 credits)
Practical project applying MOT concepts and methods to an opportunity in the student's workplace. Consultation by faculty advisors, under nondisclosure agreements where needed. Recommendations and action plans generated. Immediate ROI for students and employers. 

MOT 8920 Science and Technology Policy (1.5 credits)
Overview of the role of government and the influence of companies and individuals related to science and technology policy. Reviews and evaluates current and proposed regional, national and global technology-related public policies.

MOT 8960 Seminars in Management of Technology and Innovation (1 credit)
Guest lectures and panels featuring tech leaders from the private and public sectors. Focuses on experiential learnings from breakthrough innovation; entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; emerging technologies and markets; technology, business and policy interplays; and the regional high-tech ecosystem.

MOT 8113 Operations Management for Competitive Advantage (1.5 credits)
Overview of the relationships between supply chain and operations with other functions. Analyzes the impact of process, people and technology on supply chain and operations within manufacturing and service environments.

MOT 8232 Managing Technological Innovation (2 credits)
Understanding innovation's role as the primary driver of business success. Critical analysis of innovation drivers includes: building organizations for sustained innovation, digital and large-scale transformation, bringing ideas to market in existing businesses and new ventures, and measuring and enhancing the innovation ecosystem. 

MOT 8234 MOT Capstone Project (2 credits)
Practical project applying MOT concepts and methods to an opportunity in the student's workplace. Consultation by faculty advisors, under nondisclosure agreements where needed. Recommendations and action plans generated. Immediate ROI for students and employers. 

MOT 8940 Managing Intellectual Property (1 credit)
Managing technology by protecting intellectual property rights. Analyzes various intellectual property areas—patents, copyrights, trade secrets, publications, etc.—and the protection afforded by each. Leverages protection strategies based on company culture, market pace and technology maturity.

MOT 8950 International Management of Technology Project (2 credits)
Two-week international residency. Visits technology-intensive local and U.S.-based companies. Meet with company executives, entrepreneurs, government officials and university faculty. Explore social, economic, cultural and governmental influences on international business. 

MOT 8960 Seminars in Management of Technology and Innovation (1 credit)
Guest lectures and panels featuring tech leaders from the private and public sectors. Focuses on experiential learnings from breakthrough innovation; entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; emerging technologies and markets; technology, business and policy interplays; and the regional high-tech ecosystem.

MDI 5004 Clinical Foundations of Medical Device Innovation (3 credits)
Become effective in clinical environments by gaining knowledge regarding surgical protocols; physician, surgeon, nursing and technical support functions; medical terminology, anatomy and physiology; ethnology research; healthcare law; Medicare/Medicaid; and HIPAA requirements.

MOT 8114 Strategic Analysis (1.5 credits)
Understanding the context of technology in business management and its interaction with industry, society and the economy. Introduces tools and techniques for assessing technology readiness and success probability. Reviews risk management and uncertainty in technology development.

MOT 8133 Managerial Communications for Technology Leaders: Persuasive Writing and Speaking (2 credits)
Persuasive strategies for connecting with an audience, creating goodwill, building trust and reducing conflict while avoiding common errors that undermine credibility. Features nine behavioral practices for speaking effectively while thinking on your feet.

MOT 8501 Leading Individual & Team Performance (1.5 credits)
Innovation leadership in complex and dynamic environments. Focuses on context and capability for leaders to optimize engagement and performance at individual and team levels. Emphasizes self-awareness through individual and peer feedback and development of action plans to enhance leadership effectiveness.

MDI 5010 Product Innovation & Development Management (2 credits)
Discover the framework for conceptualization, design, development and the commercialization process for medical products, with a survey of key steps in innovation from an engineering and business perspective.

MDI 5013 Medical Device Center Practicum I (2 credits)
Gain added focus on teaching innovation steps and processes using known clinical needs as examples in collaboration with the Medical Device Center.

MOT 8214 Technology Foresight and Forecasting (2 credits)
Examination of tools and techniques for strategic foresight and forecasting of technology deliverables. Applies tools and concepts to critical decision-making for corporate and organizational strategy. Topics include technology analysis, dynamics, evolution, management and resource allocation.

MOT 8502 Innovation Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness (1 credit)
Exploration of how leaders can be developers of innovation strategy and architects of organizational capability, fostering team commitment to execute strategic choices. Discusses various principles and practices to foster continuous improvement in individual and business performance and to sustain commitment among diverse stakeholders.

MDI 5008 Quality, Regulatory and Manufacturing Management (3 credits)
Examine process validations, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), appropriate management of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and knowledge sharing across the value chain.

MDI 5014 Medical Device Center Practicum II (2 credits)
Apply the skills learned in the first practicum through a clinical immersion at the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center, which is in collaboration with the Medical Device Center.

MDI 5020 Medical Device Innovation Capstone (1 credit) 
Learn about design, management, and operation of infrastructure, connect concepts and methods as you prepare a proposal, conduct the project and report the results in written and oral form.

MOT 8224 Pivotal Technologies (1 credit)
Identification of selected technologies expected to play key roles in future industrial development. Discusses state-of-the-art status for each selection and analyzes commercialization barriers and opportunities. Includes group analysis of potential applications to various industry sectors. 

Elective (2 credits)

MDI 5006 Finance, Valuation, and Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
Develop the entrepreneurial skills important in managing design, development and commercialization of medical devices, with topics such as budgeting capital, projecting financial needs and managing working capital.

MDI 5015 Medical Device Center Practicum III (2 credits)
Build on the skills and clinical experiences from the first practicums to develop a business model and turn innovation into a viable business proposition with exit strategies.

MDI 5016 Medical Device Security - In Development Elective (2 credits)

MDI 5020 Medical Device Innovation Capstone (1 credit) 
Learn about design, management, and operation of infrastructure, connect concepts and methods as you prepare a proposal, conduct the project and report the results in written and oral form.

Elective (2 credits)

ST 8109 Cybersecurity Foundations: Technology, Risk & Communication (2 credits)
Explore cyber security risks through evaluation of consumer-driven technology concepts and their applicability to enterprise. Learn how technology works, how to understand and communicate risks to business management, and deliver actionable risk mitigation approaches. Discover core technology concepts that face both consumers and businesses as well as security standards and benchmarks that guide industry.

ST 8330 Critical Infrastructure Protections (2.5 credits)
Discover an overview of risk, its definition and application to critical infrastructures as it relates to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, as well as best practices to reduce the vulnerability of critical infrastructure systems due to accidents, material failure, natural disasters, or terrorist attacks.

MOT 8133 Managerial Communications for Technology Leaders: Persuasive Writing and Speaking (2 credits)
Persuasive strategies for connecting with an audience, creating goodwill, building trust and reducing conflict while avoiding common errors that undermine credibility. Features nine behavioral practices for speaking effectively while thinking on your feet.

MOT 8501 Leading Individual & Team Performance (1.5 credits)
Innovation leadership in complex and dynamic environments. Focuses on context and capability for leaders to optimize engagement and performance at individual and team levels. Emphasizes self-awareness through individual and peer feedback and development of action plans to enhance leadership effectiveness.

ST 8111 Methods, Theory, and Applications (2.5 credits)
Focus on methods, theory, techniques, and models including qualitative and quantitative risk modeling, decision analysis (fault-tree analysis and event-tree analysis), and probabilistic risk assessment techniques.

ST 8113 Information and Cyber Security (2 credits)
Develop an understanding of vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure systems to failure—focusing on cyberterrorism—and recommended security solutions for operational levels of trust.

MOT 8214 Technology Foresight and Forecasting (2 credits)
Examination of tools and techniques for strategic foresight and forecasting of technology deliverables. Applies tools and concepts to critical decision-making for corporate and organizational strategy. Topics include technology analysis, dynamics, evolution, management and resource allocation.

MOT 8502 Innovation Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness (1 credit)
Exploration of how leaders can be developers of innovation strategy and architects of organizational capability, fostering team commitment to execute strategic choices. Discusses various principles and practices to foster continuous improvement in individual and business performance and to sustain commitment among diverse stakeholders.

ST 8220 Vulnerability, Risk, and Threat Assessment and Management (2.5 credits)
Focus on principles, methods, and practices of threat and vulnerability assessment and risk reduction, as well as integration of risk assessment and management principles into strategic planning and decision making.

ST 8331 Dynamic Systems Modeling and Simulation Tools (2 credits)
Unearth techniques for modeling complex systems and predicting and evaluating risks associated with a variety of sources, pathways, and consequences, as well as a survey of key dynamical equations and non-sensitive databases that are used in computer simulations of linked infrastructure systems.

ST 8511 Public Policy (1 credit)
Examine key questions and issues facing the U.S. intelligence community and its role in homeland security and homeland defense, as well as address policy, organizational, and substantive issues regarding homeland intelligence support.

ST 8620 Capstone (0.5 credits)
Explore three of the most widely used case study methods for teaching and learning—case study, problem-based, and tabletop exercises—and identify strengths and weaknesses of each as reported in professional literature; then, research and prepare an original problem-based case that incorporates the best qualities of these three approaches while minimizing their limitations.

MOT 8224 Pivotal Technologies (1 credit)
Identification of selected technologies expected to play key roles in future industrial development. Discusses state-of-the-art status for each selection and analyzes commercialization barriers and opportunities. Includes group analysis of potential applications to various industry sectors. 

ST 8512 Partnership in Conflict: Security/Privacy Law, Social Responsibility and Ethics (2 credits)
Explore the challenges to American civil liberties and national security in times of terrorism, ethical and moral concepts underlying American civil rights and acts of terrorism against the U.S., and the application of the U.S. Constitution to Homeland Security laws.

ST 8620 Capstone (1.5 credits)
Explore three of the most widely used case study methods for teaching and learning—case study, problem-based, and tabletop exercises—and identify strengths and weaknesses of each as reported in professional literature; then, research and prepare an original problem-based case that incorporates the best qualities of these three approaches while minimizing their limitations. This quarter will culminate with the successful defense of the student capstone presentation.

Elective (3 credits)

Elective (3 credits)