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Research School of Management · ANU College of Business and Economics
The course introduces participants to the process of developing a business growth strategy. The course gives participants an experiential learning challenge in tackling a business growth challenge on behalf of an external client. By working with a challenge posed by an external client, participants apply and adapt their skills around real management constraints, building on the client organisation's cumulative resource history, its present capacity and the owners'/managers' intended strategy. Course participants analyse the client's business dynamics and the client's growth challenge, and prepare strategy recommendations. This project-based course requires participants to apply all of the core disciplines of management to understand the client's business dynamics. The course is conducted in workshops and seminars and through participant teams actively researching the growth challenge posed by the client. It is a requirement of undertaking this course that students sign an Agreement covering the conduct of the project. The Agreement covers professional conduct, client confidentiality and privacy, and the responsibilities of all parties, as well as the handling of questions, issues, disputes and disciplinary action.
Typical assessments may include, but is not restricted to: in-class exercises, written and oral assignments, quizzes, examinations, group project tasks, oral presentation, and other assessment deemed appropriate to show attainment of the learning outcomes set for the course. Further details will be made available via the Class Summary.
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Students taking this course are expected to commit 130 hours to completing the work. For semester length offerings this will typically include 3 hours per week in class and at least 7 hours a week on average (excluding non-teaching weeks) on course reading, research, writing and assessment work. Where this course is offered in intensive delivery mode as a continuous block over a shorter period of time, the expected total time commitment for this course will be 130 hours. Work Integrated Learning Placements Students will be placed within a workplace for a period of time.
Information about the prescribed textbook (if any) will be made available via the Class Summary.