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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
5.0

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2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Analyze portfolios, niche strategies, and business frameworks.

  • Design growth strategies balancing efficiency and effectiveness.

  • Integrate CSR, ethics, and re-engineering into strategic plans.

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Assessments

21 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Strategic Management: Business Strategy & Cases Specialization
When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.
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There are 4 modules in this course

Learners will analyze corporate portfolios, evaluate niche strategies, apply differentiation and focus frameworks, and implement operational re-engineering methods to achieve long-term competitiveness. By completing this course, learners will develop the ability to design growth strategies, balance efficiency with effectiveness, and integrate ethics and CSR into strategic decision-making.

This course provides a comprehensive journey through strategic management, beginning with growth and stability approaches, moving through business strategy frameworks, and advancing into portfolio analysis and niche evaluation. It concludes with implementation, control systems, specialized strategies, and re-engineering for organizational transformation. Unlike generic strategy courses, this program combines practical business matrices, global case applications, and functional alignment tools that bridge theory with execution. Learners gain not only conceptual clarity but also actionable skills to prioritize strategies, allocate assets effectively, and drive innovation through re-engineering practices. By the end of this course, learners will be equipped with a holistic framework for analyzing, evaluating, and implementing strategies that foster sustainable growth, ethical responsibility, and competitive advantage in dynamic global markets.

This module introduces the foundation of strategic management, focusing on stability, concentration, integration, cooperation, and globalization strategies. Learners explore how organizations design growth pathways while balancing risk, efficiency, and long-term competitiveness.

What's included

10 videos4 assignments

10 videosβ€’Total 94 minutes
  • Key Strategiesβ€’11 minutes
  • Key Strategies Continueβ€’10 minutes
  • Stability Strategiesβ€’7 minutes
  • Concentration Based Growthβ€’10 minutes
  • Integration Based Growthβ€’11 minutes
  • Diversification Based Growthβ€’10 minutes
  • Cooperation Based Growthβ€’10 minutes
  • Joint Venture Strategiesβ€’9 minutes
  • Globalization Based Growthβ€’8 minutes
  • Globalization Based Growth Continueβ€’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Key and Stability Strategiesβ€’10 minutes
  • Growth through Concentration & Integrationβ€’10 minutes
  • Global and Cooperative Strategiesβ€’10 minutes
  • Geaded - Growth and Core Strategiesβ€’30 minutes

This module explores structured frameworks for business decision-making, including retrenchment, restructuring, and generic strategy matrices. Learners gain tools to evaluate cost leadership, differentiation, and focus strategies for practical application.

What's included

11 videos4 assignments

11 videosβ€’Total 100 minutes
  • Retrenchment Strategiesβ€’10 minutes
  • Admixture Strategiesβ€’8 minutes
  • Business Restructuringβ€’10 minutes
  • The Edifice of Business Strategy Matricesβ€’8 minutes
  • The Edifice of Business Strategy Matrices Continueβ€’8 minutes
  • Generic Business Strategy Matrices Cost Leadershipβ€’12 minutes
  • Generic Business Strategy Matrices Differentiationβ€’9 minutes
  • Generic Business Strategy Matrices Focusβ€’12 minutes
  • Business Strategy Matrices Tactical Enunciationβ€’9 minutes
  • Business Strategy Matrices Tactical Enunciation Continueβ€’7 minutes
  • Strategic Prioritizationβ€’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Retrenchment and Restructuringβ€’10 minutes
  • Edifice of Business Matricesβ€’10 minutes
  • Differentiation and Focus Strategiesβ€’10 minutes
  • Graded - Business Strategy Frameworksβ€’30 minutes

This module examines portfolio management and niche analysis as tools for strategic decision-making. Learners study corporate and business-level portfolios, subjective and contingency factors, and strategy implementation essentials to manage resources and organizational design effectively.

What's included

19 videos6 assignments

19 videosβ€’Total 144 minutes
  • Corporate Portfolio Analysisβ€’7 minutes
  • Corporate Portfolio Analysis Continueβ€’8 minutes
  • Corporate Niche Strategic Analysisβ€’7 minutes
  • Business Niche Strategic Analysis Part 1β€’7 minutes
  • Business Niche Strategic Analysis Part 2β€’7 minutes
  • Business Niche Strategic Analysis Part 3β€’9 minutes
  • Subjective Factorsβ€’10 minutes
  • Contingency Measuresβ€’7 minutes
  • Intro to Strategy Implementationβ€’5 minutes
  • Implementation Matrixβ€’7 minutes
  • Program and Project Implementationβ€’5 minutes
  • Procedural Implementationβ€’5 minutes
  • Procedural Implementation Continueβ€’4 minutes
  • Asset Acquisitionβ€’11 minutes
  • Asset Allocation Variableβ€’9 minutes
  • Asset Allocation Challengesβ€’4 minutes
  • Entrepreneurial-Functional and Divisional Architectureβ€’8 minutes
  • Matrix-Network and Assorted Architectureβ€’12 minutes
  • Business Design and Evolutionβ€’11 minutes
6 assignmentsβ€’Total 80 minutes
  • Corporate Portfolioβ€’10 minutes
  • Business Niche Analysisβ€’10 minutes
  • Subjective & Contingency Factorsβ€’10 minutes
  • Strategy Implementation Essentialsβ€’10 minutes
  • Asset Management & Designβ€’10 minutes
  • Graded - Portfolio and Niche Analysisβ€’30 minutes

This module focuses on the application of strategies through control systems, functional planning, and business re-engineering. Learners also explore ethics, CSR, efficiency, and operational practices that drive sustainable long-term performance.

What's included

29 videos7 assignments

29 videosβ€’Total 242 minutes
  • Data Control Systemβ€’10 minutes
  • Appraisal Systemβ€’11 minutes
  • Planning Systemβ€’10 minutes
  • Implementation Abstract Business Variableβ€’12 minutes
  • Implementation Abstract Business Variable Continueβ€’8 minutes
  • Business Politics and Power Playβ€’10 minutes
  • Business Ethics and Personal Value Matrixβ€’13 minutes
  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Managementβ€’13 minutes
  • Functional Strategy Matrixβ€’10 minutes
  • Functional Planning and Policy Making Matrixβ€’6 minutes
  • Financial Planning and Policy Matrixβ€’4 minutes
  • Marketing Strategyβ€’7 minutes
  • Operational Strategyβ€’4 minutes
  • Human Capital Strategyβ€’3 minutes
  • Information Management Strategyβ€’5 minutes
  • Integration Matrix of Functional Strategyβ€’9 minutes
  • Efficiency and Effectivenessβ€’7 minutes
  • Efficiency and Effectiveness Continueβ€’7 minutes
  • Efficiency and Effectiveness Envelopeβ€’6 minutes
  • The 4P Matrixβ€’10 minutes
  • Operation Implementation Prioritization and Practicesβ€’8 minutes
  • Intro to Business Re-Engineering Systemsβ€’9 minutes
  • Ethos Overviewβ€’9 minutes
  • Strategic Evaluationβ€’10 minutes
  • Operational Controlβ€’8 minutes
  • Operational Control Controlβ€’8 minutes
  • Methodologies and Techniquesβ€’6 minutes
  • Methodologies and Techniques Continueβ€’10 minutes
  • Business Re-Engineering Systemsβ€’10 minutes
7 assignmentsβ€’Total 90 minutes
  • Control Systemsβ€’10 minutes
  • Ethics & CSRβ€’10 minutes
  • Functional Planningβ€’10 minutes
  • Specialized Strategiesβ€’10 minutes
  • Efficiency and Effectivenessβ€’10 minutes
  • Operational Implementation & Re-Engineeringβ€’10 minutes
  • Graded - Implementation, Ethics & Re-Engineeringβ€’30 minutes

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