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Measuring Strategic Performance in an Era of Constant Change
Postgraduate | SWI-ORG60003 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
Pursue tactics for reviewing strategic performance in a constantly changing environment. Wield strategic measurement tools such as the balanced scorecard and strategy maps. Set individual performance analysis techniques against organisational ones.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Measuring Strategic Performance in an Era of Constant Change
About this subject
Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:
- Critically analyse the relevance of the resource based view of the firm to strategic performance measurement
- Apply advanced knowledge of and critically analyse measurement theories and techniques as they apply to measuring tangible and intangible aspects of organisational strategic performance
- Apply advanced knowledge of performance measures using tools including the balanced scorecard, sustainability scorecard, strategy maps and triple bottom line methodologies incorporating sustainability agendas
- Critically analyse and evaluate opportunities for using strategic performance measurement and management methodologies to support sustainable business practice
- Work collaboratively to identify the benefits and challenges of implementing a balanced scorecard to a case study organisation.
- Components and management of performance
- Globalisation and the implications for the competitive organisation
- Measuring services and processes
- Selecting measures for tools informed by strategy
- Using scorecards to measure strategic performance
- Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and systems as drivers of strategic performance improvement and change
- Cultural and human capital challenges in measuring, managing and implementing strategic change
- Implications of a resource based view of the firm for strategic performance measurement and management
- Resource based stewardship and sustainability - implications for the integration of strategy, measurement and change
This subject aims to investigate the nature and importance of strategic performance measurement and management in an environment subject to volatility and constant change. By focusing on strategic performance measurement concepts and techniques, students will explore and apply a variety of strategic performance measurement tools. The subject also explores specific challenges faced by managers in both measuring and managing strategic performance at an organisational and individual performance level, including challenges associated with resource stewardship and business sustainability.
This subject is no longer accepting new enrolments for SP3 2018.
- Online activity— Individual (20-40%)
- Report - Individual (30-40%)
- Case based project— Individual (15-25%) and group (15-25%) (30-50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
SWI-LMC602 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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