Strategic Management

1 Credit

This course aims to give you the tools, frameworks, and ideas necessary to develop business units and corporate strategies for your oraganizations that fit, both in the short run and long run. As noted above, this requires that we appreciate how best to analyze and identify profit opportunities and threats in different industies and competitive environments; how best to analyze and identify your organization's valuable assets, resources and capabilities and how they might be protected, leveraged, and extended inthe market; how to organize your firm to be best prepared to adapt its strategy over time as the market environment changes; how to use organic growth as well as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, alliances, and divestitures to ensure that your organization around its strategy to maximize the probability of successful strategy implementation.