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Unit description

Examines the key principles of strategic management, with particular focus on the strategy process and its individual components - analysis, choice, action and evaluation. This unit makes use of the case analysis method so that students can apply their understanding to real-world problems across a range of professional contexts.

Unit content

Part 1 - Strategy Development
  1. Outside-in: Strategy as positioning, Porter’s 5-forces and positional matrix, PESTEL
  2. Inside-out: Resource-based view of strategy, VIRO/VIRN, developing resources/capabilities
  3. Emergent view of strategy, experiments, strategy innovation, the three views and bringing them together
Part 2 - Strategic Analysis and Fit
  1. Analysis models and frameworks such as McKinsey7-Ss, MIT90s, CAGE, and how to use them
  2. Fit and sustainability, strategy-structure-processes, Miles and Snow, structural options
Part 3 - Strategy Implementation
  1. Strategy implementation and organisational change

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1demonstrate an understanding of strategic management tools, frameworks and processes
2apply strategic management theories to the analysis of real-world case studies
3critique the strategic management approach of a contemporary organisation
4apply a formal strategy process to diagnose and address a strategic business problem.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate an understanding of strategic management tools, frameworks and processes
  2. apply strategic management theories to the analysis of real-world case studies
  3. critique the strategic management approach of a contemporary organisation
  4. apply a formal strategy process to diagnose and address a strategic business problem.

Prescribed Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.
Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)
Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)
Assessment
Presentation40%
Case study60%

Teaching method
Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)
Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)
Assessment
Presentation40%
Case study60%

Teaching method
Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)
Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)
Assessment
Presentation40%
Case study60%

Teaching method
Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)
Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)
Assessment
Presentation40%
Case study60%

Teaching method
Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)
Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)
Assessment
Presentation40%
Case study60%
Notice

Intensive offerings may or may not be scheduled in every teaching period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Southern Cross University employs different teaching methods within units to provide students with the flexibility to choose the mode of learning that best suits them. SCU academics strive to use the latest approaches and, as a result, the learning modes and materials may change. The most current information regarding a unit will be provided to enrolled students at the beginning of the teaching period.

Fee information

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