Management Tools, English

Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences

Version 20.0 of 01/30/2023

22B0751

Management Tools, English

• Betriebswirtschaft und Management - WiSo (B.A.)
• Volkswirtschaftslehre (B.A.)

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Part I: Introduction
1.Terms: Understanding each other
2.Overall View: Understanding strategy development
3.The linkage: tools and concepts

Part II: Analysis: The Strategic Position
4.Concepts: JIT, quality, benchmarking, value chain, SCM
5.Tools to define the environment
6.Tools to identify the strategic capability
7.Tools to reveal expectations and purposesPart III: Alternatives: Strategic Choices
8.Concepts: growth, globalisation, mergers, acquisitions and alliances
9.Tools at corporate level
10.Tools at business level
11.Tools to choose directions and methods of development

Part IV: Implementation: Strategy into Action
12.Concepts: project management, strategy in the new millennium
13.Tools to enable success
14.Tools to manage strategic change

Knowledge Broadening
Students who successfully complete this module are able to

- present tools to design a strategy and to develop business organisations strategically.
- interpret alternative tools to make a choice.
- outline consequences of strategic decisions.
Knowledge Deepening
Students who successfully complete this module are able to

- apply tools to implement a strategic development successfully.
- identify and interpret strategic issues in different contexts.
- realise how strategy development can be seen, how processes can be understood and what the implications are for strategy development.
- differentiate between strategic management in different contexts.
Instrumental Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module are able to

- apply techniques of strategic analysis.
- apply techniques to select adequate strategies.
- apply techniques to implement strategy.
Communicative Skills and Competences
Students who successfully complete this module are able to

- use different viewpoints on strategy to explain observable processes in organisations.
- explain implications of different scenarios and different strategies
Systemic Skills and Competences

Lectures, illustrations/case studies, video, independent work, coaching, e-learning, e-monitoring, working in teams, presentations, round table discussions

sound knowledge in primary and secondary activities of the value chain

Hofmann, Kay Hendrik

• Hofmann, Kay Hendrik
• Kaur-Lahrmann, Ravinder
• Halstrup, Dominik
• Frie, Jan

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Johnson, G., Whittington, R., Scholes, K. Angwin, D. and Regner, P. (2014), Exploring Strategy - Text and Cases, 10th edition, Pearson

Keuning, D.(1998), Management - A Contemporary Approach, Pitman

van den Berg, G. and Pietersma, P. (2015), Key Management Models: The 75+ Models Every Manager Needs to Know, 3rd edition, Pearson

• Portfolio exam
• Two-Hour Written Examination

reflects the contents and methods of the semester work, documented in the learning outcomes and assesses how the learning outcomes have been achieved

1 Term

Winter and Summer Term

English