Strategic Management
PostgraduateTAS-BMA7992025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $3,128
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Strategic Management
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Critically evaluate the practical application of foundational and contemporary strategic management theories, principles and processes.
- Analyse organisational strategies in a business.
- Communicate complex concepts and justify decision-making, in professional collaborative and written formats.
- Week 1 - Introduction to Strategic Management
- Week 2 - External Analysis
- Week 3 - Internal Analysis
- Week 4 - Business Level Strategy
- Week 5 - Critical Literature Review
- Week 6 - Corporate Level Strategy and Diversification
- Week 7 - Acquisition and Restructuring Strategies
- Week 8 - Cooperative Strategy
- Week 9 - Environmental Scanning
- Week 10 -International Strategy
- Week 11 - Organisational Structure and Controls
- Week 12 - Strategic Leadership
- Week 13 - SWOT Analysis and Strategy Development Plan
Strategic management today is a complex process requiring advanced skills. International expansion, network advantage, and resource optimisation pervade every aspect of this critical management skill. Successful managers need up-to-date guidance in the creation and implementation of effective strategy.
This subject is specifically designed to meet these requirements. The design, content, concepts and supportive readings all reflect current issues in strategic management. The subject focuses on the practice and concepts of strategic management through the introduction of appropriate theoretical models and frameworks. The central issue of the subject is the achievement of competitive advantage: internal and external drivers of competitive advantage, the link between strategy formulation and implementation, and the role of leadership, corporate governance and strategic entrepreneurship in this process.
- AT 1: Critical Literature Review (30%)
- AT 2: Environmental Scanning Presentation (30%)
- AT 3: SWOT Analysis and Strategy Development Plan (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-MPA-MAS-2025 - Master of Professional Accounting
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Introductory tutorial (Wk 1), 1-hr weekly online class commencing Wk 2.
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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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Master of Professional Accounting
PostgraduateTAS-MPA-MAS