Intended learning outcomes
After completing the course students will be able to:
- Understand the concept of strategy and the role of the strategic management to promote the organization development in order to improve its financial and market performance to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over its competitors;
- Use appropriate tools to assess the organization external and internal environment;
- Apply strategy as a process: strategic vision, mission and objectives development, strategy definition, implementation and executing the strategy, monitoring developments, evaluating performance and making corrective adjustments;
- Develop the strategic business plan;
- Define marketing and understand marketing as a process within the organization's strategic planning;
- Identify consumers' buying behavior and outline a consumer-oriented marketing strategy;
- Define the components of the marketing mix program.