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Develop and deploy effective strategies

Be a strategic change-maker capable of enabling your organisation to compete into the future. Learn how to develop workplace strategies that enhance technology and people to build sustainable platforms and ecosystems.

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Through structured learning activities including video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments, you will learn:

  1. Be competitive – how to think strategically to make your organisation more competitive.
  2. Be global – how crucial it is for supply chains to effectively meet customer demands.
  3. Be disruptive – how to leverage technology and innovation to disrupt and reshape your organisation.
  4. Be sustainable – how to make a positive contribution to the world while effectively maintaining the bottom line.

1. Be competitive

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.

  • to break down business strategy to its essential elements
  • to develop your strategic thinking skills
  • to improve your organisation’s competitiveness
  • how to apply the key principles behind value co-creation, strategy and marketing
  • how to continuously plan, monitor, analyse and assess all that is necessary for an organisation to meet its goals and objectives
  • to be prepared to take your organisation forward in a viable strategic direction

For a taster of the Global MBA experience, you can access the Be Competitive open unit on Coursera.

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2. Be global

Businesses and their supply chains are facing increasing competition and uncertainty in what is now a truly globalised trade environment.

  • how to think globally – ensuring supply chains meet customer demands while minimising costs and maximising responsiveness
  • how to make important trade-off decisions between cost, quality and flexibility of supply chains
  • to create future-focused capabilities required to design and manage effective, sustainable and efficient global supply chains of tomorrow.

For a taster of the Global MBA experience, you can access the Be Global open unit on Coursera.

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3. Be disruptive

‘Disruption’ has become a buzz word in the business world. Explore what this is about in this unit.

  • how to deploy disruptive strategic thinking to develop or protect your organisation’s competitive advantage
  • which strategies and technologies to use to be disruptive and take the next step for your organisation
  • how to enhance your ability to think strategically and become your organisation’s disruptive change-maker.

For a taster of the Global MBA experience, you can access the Be Disruptive open unit on Coursera

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4. Be sustainable

It is no longer acceptable for organisations to focus entirely on financial success if they are going to be competitive on the global stage.

  • how to expand your strategic thinking beyond your organisation’s competitive financial environment and consider its broader impact on society
  • to grapple with the conflicting outcomes of societal impact and maximising financial return as you develop the skills to create a balance that is sustainable
  • to gain an appreciation of how important sustainability will be for every organisation in the future – and how you can achieve this.

For a taster of the Global MBA experience, you can access the Be Sustainable open unit on Coursera.

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