Strategic Change Management
What does the course involve?
This programme provides an academic understanding of the strategic context of business and the opportunity to develop skills of analysis and problem solving. It also enables delegates to develop a critical awareness of organisational and managerial theory and practice, thus equipping them to deal with the problems, choices and constraints involved in organisational change. It also encourages delegates to develop their own intellectual framework of values, attitudes and practice.
What topics will I study?
This course covers the following subject areas:
Contextual analysis
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The external environment
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The competitive environment
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The internal environment
Culture and stakeholder analysis
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The influence of internal and external stakeholders
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Culture and its impact on the processes of strategy formulation
Strategy evaluation and methods of growth
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Growth strategies
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Innovation
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Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
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Strategies for survival
Strategy implementation
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Resource allocation
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Implications for organisational structure
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Managing strategic change
Approaches to change
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Evaluating different approaches to change
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Managing planned and unplanned change
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Managing levels of uncertainty
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Leading change
Responses to change
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Individual and group responses to change
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Politics, power and change