Business Strategy

Offered By: University of Virginia via Coursera

Course Description

Overview

This Specialization covers both the dynamics and the global aspects of strategic management. You'll learn how to evaluate industry evolution, build and sustain competitive advantage, formulate and assess business strategies, and align efforts to organizational strategy. In the final Capstone Project, you’ll apply your skills by creating a comprehensive Strategic Analysis for an existing business or a venture of your own.

Syllabus

Course 1: Foundations of Business Strategy
- Offered by University of Virginia. Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm ... Enroll for free.

Course 2: Advanced Business Strategy
- Offered by University of Virginia. Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this ... Enroll for free.

Course 3: Business Growth Strategy
- Offered by University of Virginia. Get the tools you need to analyze, evaluate and recommend specific actions organizations can take to grow ... Enroll for free.

Course 4: Strategic Planning and Execution
- Offered by University of Virginia. Avoid the pitfalls of strategy planning and execution with the tools and skills from this course. In this ... Enroll for free.

Course 5: Business Strategy in Practice (Project-centered Course)
- Offered by University of Virginia. A Capstone Project is an assignment designed specifically to apply and showcase the skills you learned in ... Enroll for free.

Courses

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9 hours 28 minutes
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Develop your ability to think strategically, analyze the competitive environment, and recommend firm positioning and value creation. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, top-ranked faculty will help you explore the underlying theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy and provide the tools you need to understand that strategy: SWOT, Competitor, Environmental, Five Forces, and Capabilities Analyses, as well as Strategy Maps.
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10 hours 35 minutes
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Get the tools you need to analyze, evaluate and recommend specific actions organizations can take to grow their value and avoid common growth pitfalls. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, you will learn to determine how best to build value, whether by scaling existing markets, entering established markets or creating new markets through innovation and acquisitions.
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10 hours 35 minutes
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Avoid the pitfalls of strategy planning and execution with the tools and skills from this course. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, you'll learn the pillars of strategy execution--analysis, formulation, and implementation--and how to use the 4A model to effectively approach strategy execution. Finally, a panel of leaders from entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and industry, share their expertise gleaned from years of successful strategy planning and execution.
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10 hours 17 minutes
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Advance your strategic analysis skills in this follow-up to Foundations of Business Strategy. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, you'll learn the tools to analyze strategy across time (competitive dynamics), industries (corporate strategy), geographies (international strategy), and institutions (non-market strategy). Top-ranked faculty will introduce the tools you need to complete a comprehensive evaluation and understand the strategy dynamics of an industry: Competitive Lifecycle, Internationalization and Stakeholder Analyses, and Diversification Matrices.
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11 hours 33 minutes
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A Capstone Project is an assignment designed specifically to apply and showcase the skills you learned in the Specialization. To this end, the Business Strategy Capstone Project, a comprehensive Strategic Analysis, provides an opportunity for you to synthesize concepts and knowledge from the four prerequisite courses in the specialization. In this course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, you will be guided through your project by top-ranked faculty. You may continue with the organization you selected for previous assignments or select a new organization for this project. You will analyze the current state of the organization, strategic issues facing the organization, strategic paths the organization might pursue, make a recommendation of the best path for the organization to pursue, and write an Executive Summary. Your finished project will serve as an artifact showcasing your ability to conduct research on/within an organization, select and apply the most appropriate analytical tools, build a well-supported case for a specific position, and effectively communicate key points with executive leadership.

Taught by

Jared Harris, Michael Lenox and Scott Snell