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Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

Scanning the business environment for strategic decisions

SL701 · Strategic Management — Week 1 of 16

CourseSL701
Week1 of 16
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This week’s topics

Scanning the business environment for strategic decisions

  1. Business environment: definition, features, characteristics, types
  2. Distinctions between culture and organisational environment; key components of organisational environment
  3. Internal environment, e.g. working capacities, employment relations, job satisfaction
  4. External factors, e.g. consumer group demands; contractors; stakeholders; shareholders; suppliers; general workforce
  5. Links of influential factors, e.g. social, political, technological; organisational commitment: short, medium and long term

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Critically evaluate the position of an organisation in its current market.

Study materials

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Course plan
  • Week 1: Scanning the business environment for strategic decisions
  • Week 2: Tools for analysing the external business environment
  • Week 3: Internal analysis and the organisation’s position in its cu…
  • Week 4: Effects of existing plans, core competences and competitive…
  • Week 5: Corporate, business and operational strategies
  • Week 6: Strategic models and tools for developing strategic options
  • Week 7: Evaluating and deciding on strategic options
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Vision, mission, strategic goals and a structure that fits …
  • Week 10: Creating a resourced strategy implementation plan
  • Week 11: Force field analysis and change management models
  • Week 12: Leadership and change agent skills for implementing strateg…
  • Week 13: Monitoring and control systems and key success indicators
  • Week 14: Implementation risks and reviewing the effectiveness of the…
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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