DI
Aug 2, 2020
A great experience of learning about business strategy..many concepts refreshed that I studied during my MBA. A great teaching approach by the faculty; a blend of readings, videos, and quizzes!!
IW
Jan 14, 2019
Very interesting, varied lectures with relevant presentations of Danish companies in all sorts of situations. The assignment was fun to do, but the grading process could be a bit smoother.
By Ruturaj B
•Jun 26, 2018
Detailed course.. Enjoyed the Case Studies.
By Jussara N
•Oct 15, 2017
Would have loved more about Innovation
By Kyrel W
•Nov 11, 2016
there's a lot to learn.
By Nancy N
•Nov 2, 2017
Course is very good.
By Carlos G
•Sep 9, 2017
Very interesting!!
By Ashish V D
•Apr 15, 2021
Excellant course.
By camilo a
•May 11, 2016
good concepts
By FRANCISCO J A B
•Sep 19, 2016
Excellent!
By Manfred T
•Feb 23, 2016
A must!
By Mohit A
•Dec 13, 2017
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By Walter H
•Feb 23, 2021
The course is good and introduces many important concepts. However, compared to the introductory course of this specialization ("Strategic Management") it presents more individual concepts and ideas and I find quite a huge gap between the effort to pass weeks 1 to 5 (very easy multiple choice) and the effort to pass week 6. In fact, it was difficult to solve the assignment just based on the course material. Instead, I had to google for elements of a good strategy, do a market analysis online with regards to branding agencies, etc. Not sure how this could be improved but I wanted to leave the feedback, as this is not only my perception, but I saw this difficulty in all the submissions that I have graded.
By Douglas T S E
•Jan 31, 2021
While it is a decent course that covers Porter's strategy and brings it a little further, the practical component was lacking. The practice quizzes were not helpful in practicing what was learnt. The capstone, recycled from the previous course was also lacking, as we just rewatched the same clips from the previous course without new information provided. It would have been helpful if new dimensions were provided - perhaps, for this course, some data of the design industry, which we can then use to inform our formulation of strategy. All in all, the assignments seem hastily glued together.
By Umut B
•Dec 19, 2019
I didn't like both scoring methodology (1-3 only) in the peer review assignment and the assignment itself. The effort was just copying the assignment in the previous section but there is a significant amount of effort asked (the deck covering 8 slides + 2 pages for a summary) Hopefully, the third course in the specialization will be different.
By Chetan B
•Jul 8, 2022
Several links in study material were not working or were outdated. Although it introduced to several management technique for strategy the quiz answers were mostly open i.e there are no wrong answers... but sometimes it helps to be more concrete to prevent going very wide with management interpretation.
By Youssef E
•May 19, 2020
This course is the most important and the worst in the Strategic Management and Innovation Specialization. The final assignment is not clear and the content is not very rich. I graduated from this course with a very good grade. Yet, I am self-doubting my abilities to formulate a good strategy.
By Sherry G
•Feb 29, 2016
The materials were interesting and relevant. The instructions for the final project were a bit cryptic - it was not completely clear what the instructor wanted. The submissions I reviewed were all over the board and none came close to the grading rubric
By Michael I
•Apr 12, 2016
The course content itself was good, however the final assignment was vague and confusing. I think my coursemates had the same problem; all of the submissions I reviewed failed to discuss in any way at least one of the learning objectives.
By Ayman S A
•Feb 12, 2016
Could be improved.. the ideas seem disconnected there is no clear flow of the ideas presented in different weeks and the specific actions to formulate a strategy. but overall good course with excellent frameworks. Thanks a lot Coursera
By Johan M
•Jun 27, 2017
The material is good, but I feel there should be at least one example given of a executive summary, before asking students to write one. It would also be nice to be able to download some slides and / summaries of the lessons.
By Elina J
•May 25, 2016
This course was more diverse than I thought it would be and I really enjoyed it, however I thought the end of year project could have provided more differentiated prep material as that confused me.
By Alex G B
•Jun 9, 2020
Not as good as the previous course in this specialisation, and actually, some of the frameworks promoted contradict that specialisation. Also loads of accounts with plagiarised/copied reports.
By JOSE O
•Jul 26, 2020
It would be interesting to dig deep into the formulation itself, besides the analytical frameworks. For example, How is the process of designing compelling strategies? what models?
By Philipp H
•Apr 3, 2018
Not a bad course but a lot of materials are outdated of paywalled by now. Also, review criteria and keystone project definition differ so that no perfect result can be achieved.
By Christoph M
•Feb 19, 2017
The course gave a nice overview on strategy formulation but was in my view a bit inconsistent. However I learned the main techniques used in formulation, so no regrets.
By Alexander Z
•Apr 11, 2019
Its ok, perhaps too theoretical, most of the basic strategy consulting companies give a more enanaced and "buy in" approach on how to formulate a strategy and why