Strategy and Management (IND630)

Strategic management is about how an organization identifies and makes action choices that enable it to deliver unique value to customers and stakeholders. These choices arise by considering factors related to the external environment, the competitive situation, and the organization’s resources and capabilities. Leadership plays a central role at all levels in these processes regarding the design, communication, and execution of the strategy.

NB! This is an elective course and may be cancelled if fewer than 10 students are enrolled by August 20th for the autumn semester.

This course aims to increase the student's understanding of different factors that can affect the organizations' conditions to succeed. This demands a comprehensive approach to the organization, the competitive environment, and leadership. These factors will influence the management's strategy process.

This will represent a holistic approach to the different topics and disciplines integrated into strategic Leadership. The intention is to move toward integrating different theoretical approaches with contributions from management literature, economics, organizational theory, and psychology. The complexity of the subject shall stimulate critical and analytical thinking and the ability to be a competent partner in a concrete organizational setting.

Knowledge

• The student should have extensive knowledge of leadership theories relevant to knowledge-, learning, and innovation-intensive organizations
• The student should have knowledge about how complexity requires collaboration, collective intelligence, and psychological safety
• The student should have extensive knowledge of different strategy models to evaluate external and internal conditions
• The student should know strategic analysis, methods, and analytical tools

Skills

• The student should be able to employ leadership for promoting goal-oriented collaboration in groups
• The student should be able to employ leadership for increasing creativity, learning, knowledge sharing, and action in groups
• The student should be able to undertake strategic analysis
• The student should be able to implement strategy through measurement, change, and innovation processes

General competencies

• The student should be able to demonstrate abilities to collaborate
• The student should be able to communicate in a clear and easy-to-understand manner
• The student should be able to critically reflect on how strategy and leadership are tools for choices and action
• The student should be able to critically reflect on the roles of purpose, sustainability, and social responsibility for both leadership and strategy

- 1 prepare and present a proposal for a solution for 1 assigned strategy case in class (approved/not approved)

- 1 opponent/commentator on 1 strategy case in class (approved/not approved)

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