IO 588 - Strategic and Organizational Planning

Prerequisite(s):

IO 512 - Organizational Consulting Skills

, and Department Chair Approval. This course will give students the fundamentals to understand business strategy and organizational effectiveness. The first part of the course will address the concepts and practice of policy formation. Environment analysis and value chain will lead to assessing business level strategy, corporate level strategy, and competitive actions. We will also examine how different cultural perspectives may influence doing business around the world. The second part of the class will emphasize the organization factors in determining and implementing business policy. Organizational planning will be discussed as aligning the business with the environment through strategy, design, operations, supply chain, and culture. Special attention will be paid to how the execution of those functions may vary with differences among cultures. (3 Credits)

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