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LEVEL 6, UNIT 1 - CORPORATE STRATEGY AND PLANNING

Level 6, Unit 1 - Corporate Strategy and Planning (25 credits)

1. Be able to critically assess the nature scope and need for corporate strategic planning.

2. Be able to critically evaluate the tools and techniques of analysis for corporate strategic planning decisions.

3. Be able to identify and critically assess strategic options and decisions and choose between them.

4. Be able to critically assess the issues in and approaches to implementing strategies and measuring and controlling corporate strategic performance.

5. Be able to critically evaluate key contemporary issues and future challenges affecting corporate strategic planning.
1.1 Assess the nature of strategy and the reasons for the growth of corporate planning in the contemporary organisation. 2.1 Assess the scope, importance and uses of analysis in the corporate planning process. 3.1 Assess the nature, scope and importance of objectives in corporate strategy. 4.1 Critically assess the organisational and resource elements in the implementation of strategies. 5.1 Critically assess global influences and aspects of corporate strategic planning.
1.2 Critically assess the different models, levels and approaches to strategic planning. 2.2 Critically evaluate the uses and limitations of internal and external analysis techniques in the corporate planning process. 3.2 Critically evaluate the range of strategic options and the considerations in choosing between them. 4.2 Critically assess the importance of issues in and approaches to managing change. 5.2 Critically evaluate corporate strategy in innovative and entrepreneurial organisations.
1.3 Discriminate between alternative corporate strategies adopted in various organisational contexts. 3.3 Critically evaluate ideas and concepts related to the decision-making process. 4.3 Critically evaluate the techniques of strategy evaluation and control. 5.3 Critically assess social, ethical, stakeholder and corporate governance issues in corporate strategy and planning.
3.4 Assess the key evaluative criteria in strategy selection.
3.5 Critically appraise techniques of evaluation and decision making.