The Developing and Executing Strategy course is the capstone and final course in your online MBA programme.
This course covers the core areas of strategic management and uses the general management setting to integrate ideas across the core disciplines covered in other MBA core courses. Developing and Executing Strategy begins by examining the evolution of management and academic thinking around strategy and strategic management over the past 50 years, reviews the diversity of contemporary strategy theory and practice and examines the role of strategy in the management of different types of organisations.
The course then examines a variety of aspects of strategy, such as strategic intent, analysis, strategic options and implementation. At each stage the links with other management disciplines, such as leadership, organisational behaviour, economics, marketing and finance are considered. Finally an integrative framework for strategic decision-making is presented, which facilitates a holistic approach to complex business and management issues.
Topics include:
- Introduction to Strategy and Strategists
- Strategic Intent
- Strategic Issue Diagnosis
- Interpreting and Analysing the Environment
- Analysing the Organisation
- Generating, Selecting and Evaluating Strategic Options
- Strategy Implementation and Practice
The course encourages students to think and operate at the strategic level in a range of dynamic settings through integration of ideas across core business disciplines.
Read an extended outline of the course syllabus for Developing and Executing Strategy, which gives you an overview of the course content.