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ME2324 Strategic Management in Technology Shifts 6.0 credits

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Companies are important both in driving technological transformation through technological innovations and in managing the effects of innovations created by other actors. Of course, these processes are also affected by major societal challenges and changes. The course therefore focuses on how technological innovation and transformation are managed in companies and other types of organizations. The course aims for students to understand strategic management and organizational change related to technological change, as well as to understand how organizations can work to solve complex industrial and technological challenges.

Information per course offering

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Termin

Information for Spring 2026 Start 16 Mar 2026 programme students

Course location

KTH Campus

Duration
16 Mar 2026 - 1 Jun 2026
Periods

Spring 2026: P4 (6 hp)

Pace of study

33%

Application code

60377

Form of study

Normal Daytime

Language of instruction

English

Course memo
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Number of places

Min: 10

Target group
Only open for TIEMM
Planned modular schedule
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Course syllabus as PDF

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Course syllabus ME2324 (Spring 2023–)
Headings with content from the Course syllabus ME2324 (Spring 2023–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course disposition

See the course syllabus.

Course contents

The aim of the course is to apply relevant subject knowledge to a business problem in practice. The course is structured around a complex situation in which a real company (or other organization) is affected by an ongoing technological shift. This may involve either the consequences of technological change for established companies, or the opportunities and challenges caused by technological change for new and emerging companies. The course uses practical cases to train students in the practical application of knowledge in areas such as business strategy, technological transformation, innovation strategy, business model development, organizational change, and change management.

Intended learning outcomes

1. Explain and analyze key concepts, models, and theories in strategic change and change management

2. Explain and analyze how companies and other organizations can develop commercially sustainable innovations in different contexts.

3. Apply scientific concepts, models, and theories to analyze how organizational, strategic, and leadership challenges related to industrial transformation and technological innovation can be addressed in companies and other organizations.

4. Develop proposals for a commercially viable solution to a challenge faced by a company or other organization in connection with a technological shift, and argue in favor of this solution.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

Completed ME2321 Engineering Work and Global Challenges

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and completion

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • KON1 - Partial exams, 3.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
  • SEM1 - Seminars, 3.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Other requirements for final grade

Attendance is mandatory at the course seminars.

Examiner

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Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

ITM/Industrial Economics and Management

Main field of study

Industrial Management

Education cycle

Second cycle

Supplementary information

The course is only open for students admitted to the Master programme Industrial engineering and Management (TIEMM).

Not open for exchange students.