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MBA - Supply Chain Management

Managing Business Strategy

Programme Objectives

The programme aims to provide graduates and working professional who desire of becoming successful consultants in the competitive consulting industry, with first-hand knowledge of the tools and techniques used by successful consultants in the competitive management consulting industry. They will get a detailed understanding of the global consulting industry; how it works, its dominant players, key success factors and the management issues that drive it.

The MBA - Management Consultancy is a specialist high value Professional Masters Degree developed in collaboration with the International Professional Managers Association-UK, in consultation with the West Africa Federation of Institutes of Administration & Management Consultants, thus giving the degree the critically important professional flavour that is often lacking in many academic qualifications of its nature.

Benefits

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

1. Develop a business strategy through their understanding of
   • Management Processes
   • Management Functions
   • Strategic Management
   • Individual Behaviour
   • Group Behaviour
2. Develop analytical and critical skills to evaluate new concepts, techniques and arguments in organisational and project management
3. Develop research skills to advise clients to improve their business and management effectiveness
4. Develop communication skills to explain and justify range of options devised for the benefit of their clients
5. Advise clients on restructuring and improving business performance
6. Exercise creativity in solving management and business problems
7. Enable the student to improve their career and entrepreneurship prospects
8. Enable the student to have the confidence to apply knowledge and understanding to improve business practices in diverse business and cultural environments

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