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MBA - Finance

Managing Business Strategy

Programme Objectives

The programme has the following aims:

  • To enable the advanced study of organisations, their management and the changing external context in which they operate
  • Equip individuals for and/or development of a career in business and management by developing skills at a professional or equivalent level to assume senior managerial and leadership positions in business
  • Development of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of business and management to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management leadership and practice.
  • Enhancement of lifelong learning and personal development so as to be able to work with self-direction and originality and to contribute to business and society at large.

Benefits

At the end of the programme the successful student will have the ability to:

  • Demonstrate critical understanding of management theories, current issues of management, the development of conceptual frameworks to guide their application within organisations.
  • Acquire a strong foundation in key functional areas of business management to enable them to succeed as effective managers/leaders in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment.
  • Acquire and use a range of concepts, tools and techniques for problem solving and decision-making for analyzing complex and inter-related business scenarios.
  • Demonstrate and apply independent research and critical skills enabling the investigation and evaluation of valid and relevant management issues and practices.
  • Demonstrate initiative, insight, attitudes of responsibility and ethical leadership in the development of the strategic management agenda in the organization the participant works in or expected to work in the future.

Programme Content

Overview

The aim of this module is to enable participants to develop an awareness of, and become familiar with, academic theories, frameworks, managerial models and techniques that contribute to business strategic planning and management.

It also allows participants to critically evaluate and apply appropriate strategic models and techniques which may be relevant when considering participants’ own organisations’ or industry strategic development.

Student centered learning will be strongly encouraged and developed. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning will be infused into the teaching-learning-assessment strategies.

Group discussion, case analysis and self directed learning resources will be available to support the delivery and the appropriate assessment tools / tasks will be used to assess the intended learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • Apply the appropriate models, techniques and theories to produce an environmental audit of the external and internal environment for an organisation.
  • Critically analyse and evaluate the alternative strategic directions an organisation may consider to employ and propose the most appropriate strategic option for execution.

Syllabus

  • The Concept of Strategy and how it benefits the organization vision, mission and objectives.
  • Transformation of the External Strategic Environment and the Consequences and the Influence of the Internal Environment on Current Practice.
  • Key Strategic Techniques for Analysis.
  • Strategic Development, namely Acquisitions and Mergers, Joint ventures and Alliances, and Divestment
  • Strategy Implementation
  • Strategic Performance Analysis

Resources

  • Course Materials provided by IPE.
  • Richard Lynch, Strategic Management, 6th Edition, 2010, FT Prentice Hall.
  • Johnson, G.and Scholes, K., Exploring Corporate Strategy, 9th Edition, 2009, FT Prentice Hall.
  • Online resources on OCTAL Portal
  • Online databases from IPE’s E Library