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.
Course overview and introduction
Skills You'll Learn
Competitor Analysis, Value Proposition, Porter'S Five Forces Analysis, Customer analysis
Reviews
4.8 (221 ratings)
Jan 20, 2021
Well presented and relatively easy to understand the concepts. Suggested reference materials are excellent readings for context.
Jan 30, 2021
Very good insights, very informative, excellent course well presented and relatively easy to understand. Thank you Sir =)
From the lesson
The importance of value for competitive strategy
This week you will be introduced to the strategy framework that captures the components of competitive strategy. The components of competitive strategy are: strategy content, internal strategy context, and external strategy context. You will develop an understanding of how those components contribute to value creation and value capture. You will gain understanding of the key characteristics of competitive strategy, starting with two foundational topics: First, we will establish that organisations are all about value creation. You will understand what value means, and also how value creation has become a central topic in organisations. Second, you will learn about what strategy actually is and what the characteristics of competitive strategy are.
Taught By
Associate Professor Ralf Wilden
Department of Marketing
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