The ability to think strategically in today’s global, high-tech business environment is critical to ensuring your organisation survives – and grows – into the future. By breaking down business strategy and value creation to its essential elements, you’ll develop your strategic thinking skills. And through structured learning activities including video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments you’ll discover how to improve your organisation’s competitiveness. This course focuses on the key principles behind the latest thinking in value co-creation, strategy and marketing, and teaches you how to apply them. By learning how to continuously plan, monitor, analyse and assess all that is necessary for an organisation to meet its goals and objectives, you will be better prepared to take your organisation forward in a viable strategic direction.
This course is part of the Strategising: Management for Global Competitive Advantage Specialization
About this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Identifying the forces that shape competition for economic exchanges
Analysing the sources of value in company offerings and how do segment markets in order to create value
Developing strategic options that are suitable, feasible, and acceptable
Skills you will gain
- Competitor Analysis
- Value Proposition
- Porter'S Five Forces Analysis
- Customer analysis
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
The importance of value for competitive strategy
Know your Customers and Competitors
Know your industry
Know your competitive options
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- 3 stars1.71%
- 2 stars0.34%
TOP REVIEWS FROM STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: BE COMPETITIVE
VERY INFORMATIVE AND SKILLFUL COURSE. THE INSTRUCTOR IS A WORLD CLASS PROFESSOR IN THE FIELD OF STRATEGY. THANK YOU
Great Learning new subjects, will have overarching improvement in my understanding of the subject . Thanks
Very good insights, very informative, excellent course well presented and relatively easy to understand. Thank you Sir =)
It was a fantastic course. Helped me a lot to understand the strategies in the competitive market.
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