Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Have gained insights into different concepts for strategy and their significance for the firm’s ability to seize opportunities and create new markets.
• Have knowledge about possible strategies in the global organisation
• Have knowledge about possible organizational designs in the global organisation
• Have knowledge about the possible configuration of innovative business models and understanding their importance for businesses
• Have knowledge about the challenges in the development of global markets and their possible solutions.
• Have knowledge about current trends influencing the contemporary organisation.

Skills

• Be able to understand the characteristics and drivers of market creation and development, as well as the practical means of handling them in an engineering business context 
• Be able to understand the range, scope and complexity of challenges related to the management in creating and realizing global markets
• Be able to work with different organizational set-ups and configurations in the global organization and be able to understand their importance for market and business creation.
• Be able to configure and design global networks and value chains for market creation and realization.
• Be able to understand the complexities involved in creating global markets.

Competences

• Be able to design and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different organisational configurations (including network structures) and their possible contributions for the creation of global markets.
• Be able to craft strategies for market creation in the global firm

Type of instruction

The teaching is organized in accordance with the general form of teaching. Please see the programme cirruculum §17.

Extent and expected workload

Since it is a 5 ECTS course module the expected workload is 150 hours for the student.

Exam

Exams