MGB309: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT * Teaching Team: Ivano BONGIOVANNI (Lecturer and Tutor) * David MILLS (Tutor) * Graham FELLOWS (Tutor) * Lectures: * Thursday 19.00 – 21.00, Z 303 (Ivano BONGIOVANNI) * * Tutorials: * Thursday 16.00 – 17.00, S 306 (Ivano BONGIOVANNI) * Thursday 17.00 – 18.00, Z 302 (Ivano BONGIOVANNI) * Thursday 18.00 – 19.00, O 308 (Ivano BONGIOVANNI) * Thursday 17.00 – 18.00, B 224 (David MILLS) * Thursday 18.00 – 19.00, O 604 (David MILLS) * Thursday 17.00 – 18.00, M 312 (Graham FELLOWS) * Thursday 18.00 – 19.00, M 312 (Graham FELLOWS) * * Unit Rationale and Aim * * How to outperform their competitors is every company's main challenge. Managers deploy strategies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This unit introduces you to the strategic choices organisations can make by providing you with key concepts relating to the strategic analysis of companies and their environments. Students from different majors can draw on their education thus far and use it in understanding how every aspect of an organisation such as HR, Finance, Marketing, etc. plays a role in strategy. This understanding is particularly relevant to you when making the transition to the workforce. This unit introduces you to cutting-edge concepts, frameworks, and techniques of strategic analysis that allow you to make better strategic decisions. The aim of this unit is to provide you with the analytical tools needed to become critical strategic thinkers and effective problem solvers. You will learn how to develop and implement superior strategies. * * Approaches to Teaching and Learning * * Learning strategies in this unit advance critical analysis and planning skills. Intellectual inquiry is encouraged through analysis of case studies and tutorial exercises. The general approach