Modules

Part-time

The course is part-time over two years. The cohort is up to 35 students and formed by a global audience of executives. Teaching consists of eight modules and a dissertation, which works as a management consultancy project.
The MBA is designed to capture senior executives working full-time in the delivery of major projects.

Year 1: October (Modules 1 and 2), February (Modules 3 and 4), May (Modules 5 and 6).
Year 2: October (Modules 7 and 8), May (Dissertation).
Example of modules 1 and 2 in October. Module 1 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday). Module 2 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

The students of the MBA Major Infrastructure Delivery must take all eight compulsory modules and the dissertation.
The course is based around the following core modules:

• Analysing the anatomy of major projects – the context in which major infrastructure projects are proposed and developed, revealing different market structures and models to bridge the global infrastructure gap.
• Managing economic and financial risks – an understanding of the connections throughout the project life-cycle, from demand forecast, through business cases, until the implications to the financial performance of the organisations delivering major infrastructure projects.
• Structuring governance and assurance – explores the relationship between risk management, governance, and assurance processes across organisational and institutional boundaries.
• Designing client organisations and corporate strategies – explores the functions within the boundaries of the client organisation, and prepares the argument for the necessity of thinking about the inter-organisational perspective, considering the interfaces with the supply chain.
• Procuring and integrating the supply chain – principles of supply chain management, procurement and operations building upon production logics of vertical integration and outsourcing, which inform the decomposability of the asset into internal and external parts.
• Building, developing and leading teams – leadership approaches to address the different culture and values at organisational and individual levels. It introduces the power dynamics of organisations and the role of leaders in shaping the strategy of the intra- and inter-organisational forms.
• Controlling information and systems – explores the challenges of information flows and the extraction of actionable business intelligence to manage human resources and organisational functions.
• Managing stakeholders and creating value – the principles of stakeholder management, theoretically framing the dynamics between internal and external players in complex and uncertain organisations. It presents strategies for the process of creation and co-creation of value to address the requirements of different stakeholders.

The programme ends with a dissertation. It is an academically rigorous piece of research and students can choose any topic they want as long as it is relevant to Major Infrastructure Delivery and can be supervised by a staff member from the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction. The dissertation works as a management consultancy project, building upon the latest academic thinking to provide a piece of management advice to an organisation (e.g. public, private, non-profit).The dissertation demonstrates learning in problem formulation and the application of research methods to the investigation of specific research questions. Students are encouraged to formulate their own research proposal drawing upon theoretical or practical problems.
 

Please note that the list of modules given here is indicative. This information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability are subject to change. Modules that are in use for the current academic year are linked for further information. Where no link is present, further information is not yet available.

Upon successful completion of 180 credits, you will be awarded an MBA in Major Infrastructure Delivery.