CourseBM402

Week16 of 16

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This week’s topics

Final evaluation and project assessment

What you will be able to do

Coursework · 3,000 words · covers LO1–LO4, all assessment criteria

Study materials

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Course plan

Week 1: Business sectors: primary, secondary, tertiary and quaterna…
Week 2: Types of business: profit, not for profit, NGOs, micro, SME…
Week 3: Legal structures: sole trader, partnership, limited company…
Week 4: Business functions and how they work together
Week 5: Organisational structures: hierarchic, bureaucratic, matrix…
Week 6: How functional relationships shape structure: charts, autho…
Week 7: The internal environment of a business and why it is import…
Week 8: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Quantifying the internal environment with SWOT/TOWS
Week 10: Assessing the internal environment: capacity assessment gri…
Week 11: The external environment of a business and why it matters
Week 12: Measuring the external environment with PESTLE
Week 13: Competition: Porter's Five Forces and the Ansoff matrix
Week 14: Assessing a business’s external environment alongside its i…
Week 15: Review and coursework completion
Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment

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