MBA Defence Brochure

Short courses

Cranfield has a diverse suite of short courses that meet the challenges and requirements of a changing and complex sector. Our portfolio offers the maximum scope for personal development and, at the same time, balances your time and resource pressures.

Advanced Negotiation Examines various multinational aspects of defence acquisition from an international relations, politics and management perspective.

Applied Systems Thinking Explores complex adaptive systems, such as organisations and large- scale engineered solutions, and provides concepts, methods and ways of thinking that can deal with such complexity.

Capability Context Describes UK defence capability as a system of systems context and how system engineering applies across capability programme lifecycles.

Capability Requirements and Systems Covers the role of Systems and Systems of Systems Engineering in a Capability - based approach to Defence acquisition.

Defence Capability Management Covers defence capability and why and how defence ministries both in the UK and elsewhere plan and generate military capabilities under conditions of uncertainty.

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