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EDI 3610 Adaptive Organizing

EDI 3610 Adaptive Organizing

Course code: 
EDI 3610
Department: 
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Credits: 
7.5
Course coordinator: 
Øystein D. Fjeldstad
Ragnvald Sannes
Course name in Norwegian: 
Adaptive Organizing
Product category: 
Bachelor
Portfolio: 
Bachelor of Digital Business - Programme course
Semester: 
2025 Spring
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
Bachelor
Teaching language: 
English
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

Organizations are increasingly using digital technologies in the organization of internal as well as external activities and resources, frequently by use of digital platforms as organizational infrastructures. In addition, digital tools are used to support organizational process such as planning, budgeting, monitoring, and giving feedback. The introduction of such tools into the organizing processes fundamentally affect the way organizations are understood, structured, and managed. Some of the gains that drive this transformation are related to greater agility and adaptability to enable organizations to stay relevant in rapidly changing external environments and increased efficiency and speed by reduction of hierarchical levels. Digital technologies can increase self-organizing.

Learning outcomes - Knowledge
  • Understand fundamental aspects of organizations and organizing activities and resources
  • Understand the role of digital technologies in organizing
  • Understand how organizing by use of digital technologies differs from earlier forms of organizing
  • Understand implications for management and different levels of the organization
Learning outcomes - Skills
  • Be able to design for the use of digital tools such as collaborative platforms in organizing activities and resources
  • Be able to work effectively and efficiently within a digital organization
  • Be able to analyze the design of small to medium sized organizations
  • Be able to propose organizational designs that rely on digital technologies
General Competence

Working in, understanding, and discussing organizations that use digital technologies in organizing their activities, resources, processes, and external relationships.

Course content
  • Organizations and organizing
  • Digital technologies that support organizing, e.g. digital platforms and digital process tools
  • Use of digital technologies in organizational control (setting goals, allocating resources, monitoring goal fulfillment and resource use) and coordination (resolving interdependencies among activities and resources)
Teaching and learning activities
  • Lectures
  • Discussion
  • Group work

Software tools

  • Excel
  • Miro
Software tools
No specified computer-based tools are required.
Additional information

 

    Qualifications

    Higher Education Entrance Qualification

    Disclaimer

    Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.

    Assessments
    Assessments
    Exam category: 
    Submission
    Form of assessment: 
    Submission other than PDF
    Exam/hand-in semester: 
    First Semester
    Weight: 
    60
    Grouping: 
    Group (1 - 4)
    Duration: 
    1 Semester(s)
    Comment: 
    One 7,5 minutes video and a document, 3-5 pages that describes the solution to a given organization design problem.
    Exam code: 
    EDI 36101
    Grading scale: 
    ECTS
    Resit: 
    Examination every semester
    Exam category: 
    School Exam
    Form of assessment: 
    Written School Exam - digital
    Exam/hand-in semester: 
    First Semester
    Weight: 
    40
    Grouping: 
    Individual
    Support materials: 
    • No support materials
    Duration: 
    3 Hour(s)
    Exam code: 
    EDI 36102
    Grading scale: 
    ECTS
    Resit: 
    Examination every semester
    Type of Assessment: 
    Ordinary examination
    All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
    Total weight: 
    100
    Student workload
    ActivityDurationComment
    Teaching
    36 Hour(s)
    Prepare for teaching
    100 Hour(s)
    Student's own work with learning resources
    60 Hour(s)
    Examination
    4 Hour(s)
    Sum workload: 
    200

    A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 7,5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 200 hours.