Creating Business Strategies
PostgraduateRMI-OMBA6602023
Course information for 2023 intake
Tackle the ethical challenges that designing business strategies can raise. Explore corporate issues from an international perspective.Combine your knowledge of business marketing, finance and human resource management and build strategic solutions.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Creating Business Strategies
About this subject
On the successful completion of this subject you will be able to:
- Apply strategic management knowledge to create an effective strategy for a business in an industry setting.
- Use design thinking to develop and prioritise solutions to strategy problems and opportunities for a business.
- Critically engage with and resolve ethical challenges of strategy design.
- Interpret the international business environment to inform strategy design for sustainable, competitive advantage of an organisation.
- Please refer to RMIT University's Learning Management System - Canvas, for further details.
In this subject you will gain an international strategic perspective on issues that concern the organisation. The subject integrates concepts from other MBA Executive subjects that cover specific areas of operating a business such as marketing, finance, accounting, human resource management and operations management, and uses these insights to provide you with a framework to design solutions to complex business problems and opportunities. The subject covers the evolution of the field of strategy and the need to balance strategy process, content and context.
Drawing on your professional experience you will explore the importance of business ethics including a well-developed ethics of governance regime to help achieve strategic organisational goals in an international business setting.
- Assessment 1 (CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4) (20%)
- Assessment 2 (CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4) (30%)
- Assessment 3 (CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4) (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
To help set you up for success before you start this subject, we suggest completing or having equivalent knowledge in:
RMI-BUSM4521-Design Thinking for Business (Executive) (no longer available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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