Management Tools, English
- Faculty
Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences
- Version
Version 20.0 of 01/30/2023
- Code of Module
22B0751
- Modulename (german)
Management Tools, English
- Study Programmes
- Betriebswirtschaft und Management - WiSo (B.A.)
- Volkswirtschaftslehre (B.A.)
- Level of Module
2
- Content
Part I: Introduction
1.Terms: Understanding each other
2.Overall View: Understanding strategy development
3.The linkage: tools and concepts
Part II: Analysis: The Strategic Position
4.Concepts: JIT, quality, benchmarking, value chain, SCM
5.Tools to define the environment
6.Tools to identify the strategic capability
7.Tools to reveal expectations and purposesPart III: Alternatives: Strategic Choices
8.Concepts: growth, globalisation, mergers, acquisitions and alliances
9.Tools at corporate level
10.Tools at business level
11.Tools to choose directions and methods of development
Part IV: Implementation: Strategy into Action
12.Concepts: project management, strategy in the new millennium
13.Tools to enable success
14.Tools to manage strategic change
- Learning Outcomes
Knowledge Broadening
Students who successfully complete this module are able to
- present tools to design a strategy and to develop business organisations strategically.
- interpret alternative tools to make a choice.
- outline consequences of strategic decisions.
Knowledge Deepening
Students who successfully complete this module are able to
- apply tools to implement a strategic development successfully.
- identify and interpret strategic issues in different contexts.
- realise how strategy development can be seen, how processes can be understood and what the implications are for strategy development.
- differentiate between strategic management in different contexts.
Instrumental Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module are able to
- apply techniques of strategic analysis.
- apply techniques to select adequate strategies.
- apply techniques to implement strategy.
Communicative Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module are able to
- use different viewpoints on strategy to explain observable processes in organisations.
- explain implications of different scenarios and different strategies
Systemic Skills and Competences
- Mode of Delivery
Lectures, illustrations/case studies, video, independent work, coaching, e-learning, e-monitoring, working in teams, presentations, round table discussions
- Expected Knowledge and/or Competences
sound knowledge in primary and secondary activities of the value chain
- Responsible of the Module
Hofmann, Kay Hendrik
- Lecturer(s)
- Hofmann, Kay Hendrik
- Kaur-Lahrmann, Ravinder
- Halstrup, Dominik
- Frie, Jan
- Credits
5
- Concept of Study and Teaching
Workload Dozentengebunden Std. Workload Lehrtyp 35 Vorlesungen 10 Vorlesungen Workload Dozentenungebunden Std. Workload Lehrtyp 105 Hausarbeiten
- Recommended Reading
Johnson, G., Whittington, R., Scholes, K. Angwin, D. and Regner, P. (2014), Exploring Strategy - Text and Cases, 10th edition, Pearson
Keuning, D.(1998), Management - A Contemporary Approach, Pitman
van den Berg, G. and Pietersma, P. (2015), Key Management Models: The 75+ Models Every Manager Needs to Know, 3rd edition, Pearson
- Graded Exam
- Portfolio exam
- Two-Hour Written Examination
- Assessment Methods Remark
reflects the contents and methods of the semester work, documented in the learning outcomes and assesses how the learning outcomes have been achieved
- Duration
1 Term
- Module Frequency
Winter and Summer Term
- Language of Instruction
English