Postgraduate Course: Strategising for Sustainability (CMSE11655)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course introduces to strategy and sustainability with a strong practical focus. |
| Course description |
The course introduces basic practices of developing organisational strategies to deliver valuable products/services. It discusses how these practices can be applied in a strategy process to define economic, ecological, and social goals and the course of action to achieve these goals. I teach you how you can develop organisational strategies to tackle grand societal challenges such as climate change and inequality in different ways, thus contributing to different pathways towards a more sustainable society (e.g., green growth, sharing economy). In team projects, you apply learnings and develop strategies to tackle a grand challenge. The course develops your understanding and practical skills.
Outline content
The course consists of three sections:
1. Critical Strategising
2. Strategic Analysis
3. Strategy formulation and decision making
Student Learning Experience
The course organiser combines in-person lectures, tutorials, and group projects.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | Students MUST also take:
Corporate Responsibility (CMSE11534)
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| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Block 2 (Sem 1) |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 6,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 3,
Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
87 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
50 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
50% Presentation (Group) - Assesses all course Learning Outcomes
50% Project report (Individual) - 1,300 words - Asseses course Learning Outcomes 1,2,4 |
| Feedback |
Formative: Feedback will be provided throughout the course.
Summative: Feedback will be provided on assessments within agreed deadlines. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand, critically discuss, and apply practices, tools and concepts of strategic management.
- Understand and critically discuss dynamics between different organisational strategies and different forms of societal change.
- Manage work within teams.
- Demonstrate the ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity by specifying problems and the systematic development of a strategy to manage these problems in a reflexive fashion showing both awareness of competing arguments for different options and skills of convincing others that the developed strategy is the right one.
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Reading List
Core text
Whittington, R., Angwin, D., Regner, P., Johnson, G., Scholes, K., & Koleva, P. (2019). Exploring strategy: text and cases. Pearson Education |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Practice: Applied Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Apply creative, innovative, entrepreneurial, sustainable and responsible business solutions to address social, economic and environmental global challenges.
Work with a variety of organisations, their stakeholders, and the communities they serve - learning fromthem, and aiding them to achieve responsible, sustainable and enterprising solutions to complex problems.
Communication, ICT, and Numeracy Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Convey meaning and message through a wide range of communication tools, including digital technology and social media; to understand how to use these tools to communicate in ways that sustain positive and responsible relationships.
Critically evaluate and present digital and other sources, research methods, data and information; discern their limitations, accuracy, validity, reliability and suitability; and apply responsibly in a wide variety of organisational contexts.
Cognitive Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Be self-motivated; curious; show initiative; set, achieve and surpass goals; as well as demonstrating adaptability, capable of handling complexity and ambiguity, with a willingness to learn; as well as being able to demonstrate the use digital and other tools to carry out tasks effectively, productively, and with attention to quality.
Knowledge and Understanding
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of contemporary organisational disciplines; comprehend the role of business within the contemporary world; and critically evaluate and synthesise primary and secondary research and sources of evidence in order to make, and present, well informed and transparent organisation-related decisions, which have a positive global impact.
Identify, define and analyse theoretical and applied business and management problems, and develop approaches, informed by an understanding of appropriate quantitative and/or qualitative techniques, to explore and solve them responsibly. |
| Keywords | Strategic management,Strategic analysis,Strategy formulation,Strategic decision-making |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Marc Krautzberger
Tel:
Email: Marc.Krautzberger@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | |
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