Postgraduate Course: Business Management for Built Environment Professionals (Distance Learning) (ARHW11028)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 15 |
| Home subject area | Architecture - Heriot-Watt University |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | · What is strategy? What is strategic management? How does strategy manifest itself and what does it influence?
· Exploration of the complexity and difficulty organisations have in developing strategy
· Strategy ¿Schools of Thought¿ ¿ an exploration of the contested nature of the strategy theory
· The Prisoners dilemma ¿ An exploration of the difficulties of strategising in a contested marketplace
· The strategic management process;
· Context and strategy ¿ a recursive relationship
· Strategic analysis
· Forecasting the future ¿ crystal ball gazing
· Strategy implementation
· Strategy monitoring and feedback
· Change Management ¿ context and practice as a recursive relationship
· Contemporary research on strategy in the built environment
· Strategic issues in the built environment; Impact of new technology on demand for buildings and Public/Private strategic relationships, i.e. PFI/PPP |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Flexible, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: 1 |
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Web Timetable |
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| Course Start Date |
05/08/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. The aim of the course is to introduce and explore with the students the complex, contested and messy world of strategic management theory and practice. Students will acquire the means to think strategically about organisations in the built environment through a number of theoretical angles informed by alternative epistemological positions. Emphasis throughout will be given to highlighting the ongoing dynamics and implications of social, economic, political, technological and structural change on built environment organisational strategies.
2. The student will be able to:
· demonstrate an ability to explore and present a critical understanding of the principle theories and assumptions that underpin disparate theoretical perspectives
· present significant knowledge that covers and integrates most of the principal areas, features, boundaries, terminologies and conventions of strategy and strategic management theory.
· draw upon a deep and detailed knowledge of strategy theory, concepts and practices in placing high level interpretations on, and connections to, the practice of strategy development within built environment organisations.
3. The student will be able to:
· demonstrate and develop further high level skills in critical analysis of theory and practice in business management
· explicitly demonstrate and develop good inter-personal and problem solving skills
· fully understand the importance of management competencies in continuous professional development
· deeply reflect on individual strengths and identify specific areas for development. |
Assessment Information
| 100% Coursework |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Remo Pedreschi
Tel: (0131 6)50 2301
Email: R.Pedreschi@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Daniel Emmerson
Tel: 0131 651 5738
Email: daniel.emmerson@ed.ac.uk |
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