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BU551D: STRATEGY (2019-2020)

Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58


Course Overview

This course critically considers the processes and outcomes of business and corporate strategy formulation and implementation. This includes the centrally important techniques and processes of developing vision, futures and strategy; making strategic choices; analysing the competitive and contextual environment; implementing strategy; business planning/business case development. The course is applied to all industrial, public and third sector settings.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session Second Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Ian Robson

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Organisations increasingly adopt the conceptual frameworks and models of strategy and strategic management to help them understand the context of their business, envision potential future states and to allocate and re-allocate resources in relation to developing strategic goals. The models and techniques involved are adapting and emerging as new pressures, technologies and opportunities develop. Senior managers require the knowledge and expertise to implement these models in a carefully judged and balanced way. This allows sharp perspectives and sustainable options to be identified, explored and tested prior to adoption and implementation. Aspects of organizational context such as leadership, followership and change are explicitly folded in to this important managerial area of work.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Report: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Feedback will be continuous and rapid and will be conducted by Personal Tutors who will be readily available to communicate with students.  There will be adherence to the Institutional Framework for the Provision of Feedback. 

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Resubmission of failed elements

Assessment Type Summative Weighting
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Feedback
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionAnalyseHave an advanced understanding of many of the routinely-encountered difficulties in strategy implementation and have methods at hand to address those difficulties.
ConceptualEvaluateHave a critical appreciation of the main strengths and weaknesses of various strategic actions .

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