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Level 5 Diploma in Accounting and Business

Recommending Strategic Options

AB501 · Principles and Concepts of Business Strategy — Week 11 of 16

CourseAB501
Week11 of 16
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This week’s topics

Recommending Strategic Options

  1. Multi-criteria decision analysis
  2. Risk appraisal and scenario testing
  3. Resource feasibility and financial forecasting
  4. Writing a strategic business case with implementation roadmap

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Recommend a relevant strategic option which a business could implement.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: recommend a relevant strategic option which a business could implement.

Study materials

Videos

  • What is Feasibility Analysis? | Entrepreneurship | From A Business Professor · YouTube · Business School 101 · 7 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • The Green Book: Central Government Guidance on Appraisal and Evaluation (HM Treasury, 2026) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 88 pages · for registered students
  • The Orange Book: Management of Risk – Principles and Concepts (HM Treasury, 2023) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 64 pages · for registered students
  • Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 18: Financial Forecasting · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 537–566 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Business Strategy
  • Week 2: Hierarchy of Business Strategy
  • Week 3: Strategy Development Approaches
  • Week 4: Organisational Theories in Strategic Management
  • Week 5: Typologies of Business Strategy
  • Week 6: The Strategic Management Process: Environmental Analysis
  • Week 7: The Strategic Management Process: Execution and Control
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Conceptualising Strategic Options
  • Week 10: Comparing Growth Vectors and Strategic Options
  • Week 11: Recommending Strategic Options
  • Week 12: Applying Principles and Concepts of Business Strategy in pr…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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