EXASB 6106 - Organizational Strategy

The first part of this course examines the formation of business strategy. It recognizes the complexities and messiness of strategy formation and explores how organizations actually develop strategies. The second part examines the evolution, determinants, and relevance of alternative ways of organizing. Contemporary ideas (e.g. re-engineering, the learning organization, virtual organizations) are critically reviewed.

This course is only available to current ECML program participants, and program admission is a prerequisite.

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• 🗸 Recognize and assess strategic problems, issues, and possibilities.
• 🗸 Increase the set of tools available to do strategic analysis.
• 🗸 Enhance understanding of organizational strategy in different contexts.
• 🗸 Add implementation plans more explicitly into strategy execution.
• 🗸 Provide opportunities to prototype and pre-test strategic analysis